Despite celebrating the Oct. 7 attacks and denying any connection between Jews and Israel, Columbia University professor Joseph Massad is teaching a spring semester class on the history of Zionism, the Jewish movement for self-determination. He is scheduled to be in charge of the following.
Massad is a “professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies.” teach The class, “Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Society,'' was last offered 25 years ago. The day after the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas, he posted: article Writing on the radical anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada, he hailed the attack as “amazing” and a “victory for the resistance”, praising the Arab world's “joy and awe”.
Massad also enjoys the panic of Israelis fleeing, indulging in fantasies of Israel's destruction through terrorism, he writes, and “hoping that the settlers would flee these settlements.” [sic] They may be forced to leave the country permanently. ”
Recently, Massad appeared In a Pakistani podcast, he claimed that European Jews had only fabricated connections to ancient Israel, despite thousands of years of Jewish tradition and records of people coming and going to Israel.
of Columbia Daily Spectator reported Last month, Massad's appointment to teach a class on Zionism was met with protests, including the resignation of another professor who said the class had brought the entire university into disrepute.
Jewish groups are also protesting. Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the United States, said in a letter to Colombia's interim president, Dr. Katrina Armstrong:
Columbia University says Joseph Massad is scheduled for spring semester despite Massad advocating the destruction of Israel, praising terrorism against Israeli Jews, and accusing Jews of anti-Semitism We were stunned to learn that he had decided to allow us to continue teaching courses on Jewish history and Zionism. , denied any connection between Jews and the Land of Israel and praised the terrorist organization Hamas' massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023. The university's decision is indefensible and we urge it to be reversed without delay.
Minoush Shafiq, former president of Columbia University, was forced to resign last year after failing to contain the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests that have swept the campus since October 7, 2023. Several other university officials were also forced to resign.
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