By Daled Amos
You know the students of Columbia University are being repressed when Palestinian terrorists come out to declare their support for them.
Joe Truzman, a senior analyst for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, tweeted Wednesday morning that Hamas came out in support of Columbia students:
Who knew that the same Hamas terrorists who slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis and took over 200 hostages -- many of whom died in captivity -- had a soft spot for individual human rights.
Don't believe me?
Read it for yourself, via Google Translate:
Read it for yourself, via Google Translate:
Apparently, Al Qaeda and ISIS were not available for comment.
But the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine was!
And the PFLP was just as outraged as Hamas.
And the PFLP was just as outraged as Hamas.
Eitan Fischberger, who posted this on Twitter has a point: The PFLP claims to have students on the Columbia campus in some capacity. What does that mean?
What involvement, if any, do the Palestinian terrorists of the PFLP have at Columbia?
The New York Post reports, Pro-terror radical launched 2-hour anti-Israel tirade at Columbia University event weeks before protests exploded:
Radical anti-Israel activists told Columbia students, “There is nothing wrong with being a fighter in Hamas” — weeks before the campus exploded in pro-Palestinian protests.
In a two-hour tirade to the hardest core of anti-Israeli activists at Columbia and its sister college, Barnard, Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, said, “These are the people who are on the front lines defending Palestine and fighting for its liberation.”
Kates — who was referring to a terrorist organization responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of Israelis on October 7 — and her husband, Khaled Barakat, spoke to members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Group in a seminar called “Resistance 101.”
Not surprisingly, this presentation by Kates was based on deception:
Kates and Barakat represented themselves as speaking on behalf of Samidoun, the “Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” at the meeting.
In reality, Barakat is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is a designated terrorist organization responsible for a string of attacks on Israeli civilians and closely allied to both Hamas and Hezbollah.
The PFLP has a hand in the riots at Columbia which have led Columbia University to offer remote classes for the rest of the semester.
So when the PFLP says they have students at American universities, those universities better be paying attention and the leadership of those universities better be ready to protect their students from the riots and attacks on Jewish students that we have seen so far.
But the reasons for concern go further.
In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Steve Stalinsky, executive director of MEMRI, writes that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others are grooming activists in the U.S. and across the West. He points out how various terrorist leaders openly encourage supporters to protest "in cities everywhere."
Stalinsky warns that the issue goes beyond protests:
The collaboration between senior terrorists and their growing list of friends in the U.S. and the West has real-world consequences. These groups are designated terrorist for a reason. They don’t plan marches and rallies—they carry out terrorist attacks. And when the U.S. and Western activists, including college students, see that their marches and protests aren’t achieving their goals, they may consider their next steps—which will be influenced by the company they have been keeping.
Colleges have shown they are not up to containing the developing riots.
The media again is in denial about these "mostly peaceful protests."
The media again is in denial about these "mostly peaceful protests."
Congress has demonstrated its concern.
The first step is to make clear that free speech does not allow the growing threat and harassment of Jews on college campuses and on US streets.
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