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While the University of Michigan suspended the pro-Hamas group ‘Students for Justice in Palestine,’ anti-Israel/anti-America students at Columbia University are intent on bringing violent intifada to America as the new spring semester begins

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“In a Janary 17, 2025 report, the watchdog group Canary Mission called Columbia University a ‘national model’ for anti-Israel activism, crediting the SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) chapter for “orchestrating campus protests and normalizing Hamas’ Jew-hatred and violent rhetoric…”

The report COLUMBIA INTIFADA  shows how foreign terror organizations – all proxies of Iran – and their American affiliates transformed Columbia University into a gateway hub for Hamas’ activism in the United States.​ It further reveals the complicity of Columbia University’s administration and faculty in this endeavor.
The report also exposes the key players at Columbia promoting foreign terror and the massacre of Jews, from faculty to students as well as the outside agitators to whom Columbia opened its gates.
While the world was reeling in shock at the brutality of Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) saw an unprecedented opportunity to carry out the wishes of its ideological mentors, Iran and its proxy, Hamas.

On October 5, just two days before the massacre and after months of inactivity, Columbia SJP began posting on its social media pages again. By October 7, it was primed and ready to go, with National SJP (NSJP) choosing Columbia as the ideal place to launch its nationwide strategy in support of Hamas’ terror campaign.
There was little or no pushback from Columbia’s administration, which chose to disregard the group’s open support for terror as well as the pleas of Jewish students and faculty who were harassed, threatened and isolated on campus.
In contrast, anti-Israel students were backed by members of the Columbia group Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) as well as the university’s senate, Middle East Institute and Center for Palestine Studies, among numerous other departments.

At one point, pro-Hamas faculty members even served as “security officers,” excluding Jewish students from entering the encampment and protecting protesting students from any consequences from the administration.
Extreme anti-Israel and pro-terror organizations and their leaders played an essential role at Columbia, collaborating with students to empower Hamas’ agenda.
Most notably, Within Our Lifetime (WOL) and the PFLP-linked Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network (Samidoun) promoted the encampment on social media, spoke at the encampment and staged protests just outside Columbia’s gates to put additional pressure on the university.

Columbia’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP-CBT) chapter promoted and supported the event, effectively endorsing the speakers and their pro-terror messaging to students.
Speakers at the event celebrated the October 7 massacre and highlighted the importance of armed resistance, guerrilla tactics and the role of various Palestinian terror organizations like Hamas, the PFLP and Islamic Jihad.
Speakers encouraged the students to continue their support of Hamas, which they characterized as the “democratically elected” government of Gaza “on the front lines defending Palestine and fighting for its liberation.”
Panelists at the event included a veritable “Who’s Who” of the top players linking Hamas and other terror groups to the student movement:
  • Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network
  • Khaled Barakat, Kates’ husband, a leader of the PFLP terror group and Palestinian member of the executive committee of Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
  • A local organizer with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network NY/NJ, who identified himself only as Michael
  • Nerdeen Kiswani, founder and leader of Within Our Lifetime and co-founder of CUNY4Palestine
  • Sean Eren, a member of the National Students for Justice in Palestine Steering Committee and head editor of “The Written Resistance”

Columbia Allows SJP, Terror Proxies to Operate on Campus

On December 18, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives Antisemitism Staff Report (House Report) released its findings from a multi-faceted investigation into antisemitism on college campuses and in government following the April 2024 encampments.
The report noted [p.6]: “Columbia stands out for its egregious failure to combat antisemitism on its campus despite its president acknowledging that the University was in violation of its Title VI obligations.”
“These were not isolated incidents. Rather, they were part of an extensive pattern of Columbia’s failures to enforce University rules to address antisemitic conduct.”
In addition, Columbia allowed outside organizations, as well as the banned SJP, to infiltrate the campus and establish the encampments. The House report also established [p.40] that “AMP and SJP provided tangible support, including flyers, talking points, pamphlets, and other materials, to help support unauthorized and illegal encampments on college campuses across the country.”
The report continued, “AMP and AJP [Americans for Justice in Palestine, the fiscal sponsor of AMP] also financially sponsored SJP, helping to provide the funding necessary to organize illegal encampments and other events that have often resulted in violence and arrests.”

In March 2024, CUAD co-organized an event titled “Palestinian Resistance 101,” where various pro-terror, anti-Israel activists were invited to deliver lectures on “the fight for liberation.”
The event was co-organized with Within Our Lifetime (WOL) and the PFLP-linked Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network (Samidoun), who proved to be allies and force multipliers for the encampment protests at Columbia that soon followed.
Despite the university banning the event, it took place on campus at the Q House, “the LGBTQ+ special interest community at Columbia University.”
Columbia student Catherine Curran-Groome (who also goes by Catherine Elias) was named as one of the “key organizers” of the event.
Aidan Parisi, an SJP activist and Columbia graduate student, was suspended by Columbia after participating in the event but refused to leave the campus and his university housing. As of December 2024, Parisi was still listed in the Columbia online directory as a student in the School of Social Work.

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  1. Cease funding of any university supporting terrorist groups, and deport those of foreign origin. Better yet close down Columbia University, and the Ivy League Universities. Jail time for these subversives is necessary.

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