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A Columbia College teacher who referred to as Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel “awesome” shall be instructing an next route on Zionism on the Ivy League faculty.
The category led by means of 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,” in step with an outline on Columbia’s web page.
The year later Hamas introduced its bloody assault on Israel, Massad posted a column at the web page The Electronic Intifada, pronouncing, “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 added.
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Protestors store on the gates of Columbia College in assistance of scholar protesters who barricaded themselves in Hamilton Corridor, regardless of orders from college officers to disband or face suspense, all the way through the continued struggle between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist crew Hamas, in Brandnew York Town on April 30, 2024. (Reuters/David Dee Delgado)
Columbia University and Massad didn’t in an instant reply to demands for remark by means of Fox Information Virtual.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., a staunch best friend of Israel in Congress, criticized the class on X, pronouncing, “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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“Joseph Massad, who’s an apologist for October 7th (calling it “astounding” and “improbable”), 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 world and crowd affairs adjunct teacher Lawrence Rosenblatt reportedly has resigned as a result of the category.
Anti-Israel protesters arrange an encampment at the campus of Columbia College on April 26, 2024 in Brandnew York Town. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)
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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 wrote in a retirement letter received by means of 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.”