A Columbia College professor who referred to as Hamas’ Oct. 7 assaults on Israel “superior” will probably be instructing an upcoming course on Zionism on the Ivy League college.
The category led by Joseph Massad will cowl the “Historical past of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) in nineteenth century Europe and the event of Zionism via the present peace course of between the state of Israel and the Arab states and the Palestinian nationwide motion,” in keeping with an outline on Columbia’s web site.
The day after Hamas launched its bloody assault on Israel, Massad posted a column on the web site The Digital Intifada, saying, “The sight of the Palestinian resistance fighters storming Israeli checkpoints separating Gaza from Israel was astounding, not solely to the Israelis however particularly to the Palestinian and Arab peoples who got here out throughout the area to march in help of the Palestinians of their battle in opposition to their merciless colonizers.”
“No much less superior had been the scenes witnessed by tens of millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the information, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking via Israel’s jail fence or gliding over it by air,” he added.
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Protestors collect on the gates of Columbia College in help of scholar protesters who barricaded themselves in Hamilton Corridor, regardless of orders from college officers to disband or face suspension, through the ongoing battle between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York Metropolis on April 30, 2024. (Reuters/David Dee Delgado)
Columbia College and Massad didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark by Fox Information Digital.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., a staunch ally of Israel in Congress, criticized the category on X, saying, “Why ought to U.S. taxpayers subsidize ideological indoctrination that glorifies the mass homicide, maiming, mutilation, rape, and abduction of Jews and Israelis?”
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“Joseph Massad, who’s an apologist for October seventh (calling it “astounding” and “unbelievable”), goes to show a course on Zionism at Columbia College. What’s subsequent at Columbia? [Former Ku Klux Klan leader] David Duke instructing a course on antiracism.”
Columbia worldwide and public affairs adjunct professor Lawrence Rosenblatt reportedly has resigned due to the category.
Anti-Israel protesters arrange an encampment on the campus of Columbia College on April 26, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)
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“Whereas Massad has a proper to assume what he thinks, and communicate what he believes, Columbia has a duty to show objectively and pretty,” Rosenblatt wrote in a resignation letter obtained by the Jerusalem Put up. “At greatest maybe one might tolerate a category on the Israeli-Palestinian battle co-taught from the various various Israeli and Palestinian views, although not by somebody who advocates for the eradication of a bunch of individuals.”
