Joseph Massad, a Columbia University professor, is facing backlash for celebrating the Hamas attack on Israel and denying the Jewish people's connection to the Land of Israel. Despite this, he will be teaching a class on Zionism in the spring semester.
Columbia University professor Joseph Massad will teach a spring semester class on the history of Zionism, despite celebrating the October 7 attack and denying a Jewish link to Israel. Massad is set to teach a class called “Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies,” which was last offered 25 years ago.
The day after the October 7, 2023, terror attack by Hamas, he posted on the radical anti-Israel website “Electronic Intifada” in which he praised the attacks, describing them as “stunning” and as a “victory for the resistance,” hailing the “jubilation and awe” of the Arab world. Massad also enjoyed the panic of fleeing Israelis, and indulged the fantasy of Israel’s destruction through terror, writing that he hoped that “the colonists’ flight from these settlements may prove to be a permanent exodus.” On a Pakistani podcast and claimed that European Jews had simply invented their link to ancient Israel — despite millennia of Jewish tradition, and documented migration back and forth to Israel. Last month it was reported that Massad’s appointment to teach a class on Zionism had met with protests, including the resignation of another professor, who said that the class discredited the entire university. Jewish groups have also protested. Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., wrote a letter to Columbia’s interim president, Dr. Katrina Armstrong, saying: We were horrified to learn that Columbia University has decided to allow Joseph Massad to continue teaching a course on Jewish history and Zionism, scheduled for the spring semester, even though Massad has advocated for Israel’s destruction, praised terrorism against Israeli Jews, blamed Jews for antisemitism, denied the Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel, and praised the terrorist group Hamas’s massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023
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