Imam Tom Facchine, hosted by the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, told students to target a Jewish professor and make him an example.
Shai Davidai, a Columbia Business School Jewish professor, exposed Facchine on Twitter. From The College Fix:
Davidai said the comments targeting him occurred during a public webinar titled “Islamic Political Activism” on Aug. 20 with Imam Tom Facchine. He posted a screenshot of a poster advertising the event on the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine’s Instagram page.According to the professor’s post, Facchine (pictured) mentioned Davidai by name during the event and told students to “create a situation” to get him “in trouble.” Davidai is Israeli and calls himself a Zionist on his X profile.“How do we create a situation in which [his professorship is] in jeopardy?” Facchine said in the video.“This is what the Zionists do,” the Muslim leader said, according to the video. “That might silence 100 other professors if you’re able to take out somebody like that and make them an example, that might shut up 100 more.”As the new school year begins, Facchine told students to “think creatively about where we prioritize things, what’s the biggest threat here, what’s our biggest opportunity, which domino if we knock it over will knock 20 dominos over,” according to the video.Facchine did not immediately respond to several messages Monday and Tuesday from The College Fix through his mosque and the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research where he is a research director. The Fix could not find phone numbers for either.
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