Students at NYC’s woke New School voted to strip funding for its campus Hillel chapter —  an unprecedented move critics ripped as “despicable” and school officials insisted  was unauthorized.

The Greenwich Village university is the first in the country where students vote to end financial ties to the group, claiming without evidence Hillel is connected to “grave violations of international law.”

The 22-member student senate made the move Friday by majority vote, boasting it was a “landmark decision” to declare Hillel “not in good standing,” citing its connection to the Israeli Defense Forces through student trips to Israel.

The student senate took issue with Hillel’s student trips to Israel. RSO Compliance Committee

Hillel is an international Jewish student hub with chapters at 850 colleges in the United States, that serves as gathering places for Jewish students to socialize, worship and observe religious holidays.

In a 38-page report, the student government alleged Hillel’s participation in programs that send students to volunteer on military bases in Israel makes the entire student body complicit, through fees taken from tuition to fund all student groups.

“To continue to fund Hillel at the New School would mean that your student fees would be used to support violations of international law,” the statement says. “Our shared values require us to enforce our policies until Hillel agrees to affirm and abide by international law.”

The report also complained that Hillel, through its participation in the Birthright Israel program, allows students to tour and participate in recreational activities in occupied territories, including jeeping in the Golan Heights. 

Later Saturday, the school told The Post  the student senate didn’t have the authority to revoke funding.

“The student senate does not have the authority to determine the recognition, funding eligibility, or official status of registered student organizations. That authority rests with university administration,” a spokesperson said.

The student government slammed programs that send students to volunteer on military bases in Israel. Instagram/hillelatbaruch

“Our Hillel chapter remains, as it always has been, in good standing, eligible for funding, and supporting Jewish life at The New School.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what, if any disciplinary action the school would take action against the senate students.

“Hillel is not a political organization,” said Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, who called the students’ vote “disgraceful and dangerous.” 

“To target Hillel is to target Jewish identity and Jewish belonging on campus,” he continued.”Jewish students should not be forced to justify their identity, heritage, or communal spaces in order to participate in campus life. At a moment of rising antisemitism across the country, stripping recognition or funding from Jewish student life sends a chilling and unacceptable message. “

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City Council Member Eric Dinowitz, chair of the higher education caucus and co-chair of the Jewish caucus, called the Friday vote “despicable.”

“This is a direct attack on Jewish life on campus,” he wrote Saturday on X. “The New School must not allow the student senate to be weaponized to target their Jewish population.”

Jewish alum were aghast by the vote.

“As a Jewish alumni I am ashamed to have been a part of your school,” wrote Nicole Mardkha on Instagram. “Universities should support all student communities equally which you clearly do not. I hear the school has trouble with enrollment of new students… wonder why! Goodluck with donations and enrollment. Jokes on you.”

The liberal private Manhattan university is the first school to cut funding for its Hillel chapters. Instagram/hillelatbaruch

Hillel International CEO and President Adam Lehman vowed Jewish students would not be denied a Hillel chapter.

“Demonizing Hillel with false charges rooted in age-old antisemitic tropes is wrong, plain and simple,” Lehman said.

Hillel serves a population of 700 Jewish students at The New School. Student fees – $8 per semester – are typically distributed among campus groups for events.

Students at the private university are the first to vote to cut ties with its Hillel chapter, but there’s been calls at other schools to stop funding since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

In 2024, Baruch College’s Hillel was protested with a “Rally against Hillel” in front of the Gramercy Park building, with organizers parroting leftist talking points such as “Hillel stands with Genocide.”

Students at Hunter College, the University of Pittsburgh, Drexel University in Philadelphia and the University of California in Santa Cruz have made similar demands to boycott Hillel.