A Columbia University teacher that called Hamas’Oct 7 strikes on Israel “awesome” will certainly be showing a future training course on Zionism at the Ivy League institution.
The course led by Joseph Massad will cover the “History of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) in 19th century Europe and the development of Zionism through the current peace process between the state of Israel and the Arab states and the Palestinian national movement,” according to a summary on Columbia’s internet site.
The day after Hamas introduced its bloody strike on Israel, Massad published a column on the internet site The Electronic Intifada, stating, “The sight of the Palestinian resistance fighters storming Israeli checkpoints separating Gaza from Israel was astounding, not only to the Israelis but especially to the Palestinian and Arab peoples who came out across the region to march in support of the Palestinians in their battle against their cruel colonizers.”
“No less awesome were the scenes witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the news, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking through Israel’s prison fence or gliding over it by air,” he included.
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Protestors collect at evictions of Columbia University on behalf of pupil militants that defended themselves in Hamilton Hall, in spite of orders from college authorities to dissolve or deal with suspension, throughout the recurring dispute in between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist team Hamas, in New York City on April 30, 2024. (Reuters/David Dee Delgado)
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Rep Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., a strong ally of Israel in Congress, criticized the class on X, stating, “Why should U.S. taxpayers subsidize ideological indoctrination that glorifies the mass murder, maiming, mutilation, rape, and abduction of Jews and Israelis?”
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Fighters from the armed wing of Hamas are seen participating in an armed forces ceremony in the main Gaza Strip on July 19, 2023. (Majdi Fathi/ NurPhoto through Getty Images)
“Joseph Massad, who is an apologist for October 7th (calling it ” amazing” and ” extraordinary”), is going to teach a course on Zionism at Columbia University. What’s next at Columbia? [Former Ku Klux Klan leader] David Duke teaching a course on antiracism.”
Columbia worldwide and public events complement teacher Lawrence Rosenblatt apparently has actually surrendered as a result of the course.
Anti-Israel militants established an encampment on the university of Columbia University on April 26, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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“While Massad has a right to think what he thinks, and speak what he believes, Columbia has a responsibility to teach objectively and fairly,” Rosenblatt created in a resignation letter acquired by the Jerusalem Post. “At best perhaps one could tolerate a class on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict co-taught from the many diverse Israeli and Palestinian perspectives, though not by someone who advocates for the eradication of a group of people.”
