Prof Who Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad Works at Columbia U.

Prof Who Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad Works at Columbia U.

Columbia has become a sort of center for all of the campus protests we’re seeing now. So this makes sense, doesn’t it?

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.

During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel.

Just days later, on Jan. 16, Columbia University’s Middle East Institute extended a “warm welcome” to Abdou, the Ivy League school’s latest visiting professor in modern Arab studies.

As part of that role, Abdou teaches a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition,” where his students discuss “transnational feminist discourses” and “queer of color critiques.” The self-described “Muslim anarchist” has also emerged as a friend to Columbia’s anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a “war criminal” who “will burn” before chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”

“Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this,” Abdou wrote.

Columbia’s embrace of Abdou reflects what some Jewish students have described as a “severe and pervasive antisemitic hostile educational environment” seen on the school’s campus in the wake of Oct. 7.

At Columbia Law School, for example, administrators stood by in November as anti-Israel protesters took over the school’s lobby in an unauthorized protest that disrupted classes for hours. Roughly one month later, a Columbia student group announced an event honoring the “significance of the Oct. 7 Palestinian counteroffensive.” Similar demonstrations have plagued the school’s ongoing spring semester—last month, students chanted for an “intifada” against Jews during a campus rally.

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