A jihad-loving, ex-Columbia College professor continues to be poisoning younger minds on a global faculty tour of hate.
“Islam and Anarchist” writer Dr. Mohamed Abdou, who was booted from Columbia for backing Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023 bloodbath, urged New York College college students Tuesday to be “proud” to despise america.
“Be happy with your hate for America,” Abdou stated over Zoom to a small group gathered in Washington Sq. Park at an occasion sponsored by the anti-Israeli activist group Shut it Down NYU.
“You’re keen on Islam, and you need to be loving Islam greater than this barbarous colony. It’s a plague upon the Earth. And sure, in that sense, it’s worthwhile to be a menace. All of us must be a menace.”
The discuss is a part of the self-described Muslim anarchist’s “Demise to the Akademy” tour — which launched final month and encourages college students throughout the globe to reject Western ideology for anarchy and interact in violent protests.
“For those who assume by some means you’re going to free Palestine and preserve America, neglect it,” Abdou stated. “You could actively work to destroy.”
Throughout his two hour rant, titled “The Scholar Motion is Useless. What Now?” Abdou informed the gang, which additionally included about 30 digital attendees, there’s a lot to be taught from the Oct. 7 bloodbath and inspired martyrdom.
“If we’re to fulfill Muhammad, then our blood serves as an affidavit,” he stated. “We don’t concern demise.”
He hailed the Mujahideen — Islamic guerilla fighters who interact in jihad — the “nice folks on Earth.”
And he expressed his hatred for Israel — which he stated “inshallah, won’t see its eighth decade.”
Promotional posters on social media featured an inverted purple triangle — a logo representing the Palestinian resistance motion — and a sketch of gun-wielding Hamas terrorists. A registration type for the Shut it Down occasion described the discuss as “free,” however requested donations to pay Abdou.
Abdou, an Egypt-born Canadian citizen, was a visiting professor at Columbia when he declared on social media, “Sure, I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad” after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror assaults in Israel.
Then-Columbia President Minouche Shafik was pressured to handle his feedback throughout a bombshell congressional listening to throughout which she stated Abdou “won’t ever work at Columbia once more.”
Shut it Down NYU will not be acknowledged by the college.
It’s a group of scholars, school, employees, and organizers that calls for NYU cease “cooperating” with the college’s Tel Aviv campus, in response to its mission assertion.
It’s a department of the novel Individuals’s Solidarity Coalition — a pro-Palestine activist group that after referred to as for an “armed wrestle” throughout 2024 protests on NYU’s campus, in response to the college.
NYU stated it’s investigating the occasion and are involved concerning the violent sentiments shared with their college students.
“The organizers merely lied about this being an NYU occasion. We didn’t sanction it. We didn’t enable them on campus. No university-affiliated group was concerned,” Wiley Norvell, Senior Vice President for College Relations and Public Affairs, informed The Put up.
“Different universities needs to be on discover about these ways to misappropriate their identify. We strongly condemn the threatening language and imagery utilized in selling the occasion, and the encouragement of violence expressed by audio system.”
The luxurious faculty has been a hotbed of pro-Palestine protests, with some 130 college students arrested throughout encampments two years in the past.
The varsity employed pro-Hamas Professor Eva Tuck simply two days after Oct. 7.
And one other woke professor, Dr. Linda Liu, canceled class final 12 months simply earlier than finals to go protest Israel.
Different leftist organizations have welcomed Abdou to their campuses.
College students for a Liberated Palestine at Columbia-affiliated Union Theological Seminary and a bunch referred to as Queer Muslims of NYC organized an iftar occasion on the Morningside Heights campus final month – however college officers shut it down, in response to a social media publish from the teams.
“This occasion was neither hosted nor sanctioned by Union,” a spokesperson informed The Put up.
President Serene Jones informed organizers on the time she was “shocked and upset” by the posters selling the iftar.
“Demise, conflict, violence, killing — this isn’t what Union stands for,” she wrote.
Abdou’s alarming tour has additionally made stops at Ontario’s College of Windsor and the College of Glasgow in Scotland.
Glasgow officers reportedly tried disrupting the occasion — forcing college students to maneuver a number of instances — but it surely was finally capable of go on.
Officers from each Glasgow and Windsor stated these occasions have been unsanctioned and unaffiliated with the schools.
Shut it Down NYU and Abdou didn’t reply to requests for remark.
