Terrorists Declare Support for Campus Protests at Columbia and Call for ‘Escalation’

Terrorists Declare Support for Campus Protests at Columbia and Call for ‘Escalation’

Someone needs to ask these students if they are proud of this endorsement. Maybe ask their parents, too.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Palestinian Terrorists Declare Support for Columbia Encampment, Call for ‘Escalation’

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a senior Hamas leader declared their support for the unsanctioned tent encampments roiling Columbia University and other elite American universities.

The Popular Front, a U.S.-designated terror group, released a statement Tuesday evening affirming the group’s firm support for “our students at American universities.” The statement called for “the escalation of their struggle” and condemned university administrators for implementing “policies biased with the occupation.” The terror group specifically praised the student protests at Columbia and Yale University.

The terror group’s statement coincided with a separate statement from a senior Hamas political leader, Izzat Al-Rishq, published Wednesday morning by the Resistance News Network. Al-Rishq’s statement likened Israel to Nazi Germany and declared support for American student protesters. The Resistance News Network frequently releases English translations of communiques from U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations located in Palestinian-controlled territories, according to the Anti-Defamation League. “Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders,” Al-Rishq noted.

The terrorists’ support for the student protests comes as tensions at Columbia have remained high, as university administrators have struggled to put an end to the unsanctioned tent encampment. The protesters have clashed with university administrators and police trying to clear them out, resulting in more than 100 arrests. Jewish students at Columbia have indicated they do not feel safe on their campus amid the protests, which have included anti-Semitic chants and at least one assault of a pro-Israel individual.

Protesters were captured shouting “We are Hamas” and “Zionist pig” at pro-Jewish bystanders, while another keffiyeh-clad individual held a sign pointing toward a group of Jewish students with the caption “Al-Qassam’s Next Targets,” a reference to Hamas’s military wing. Students at Yale and other universities have formed similar encampments in solidarity with the Columbia protesters.

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