Israel war: Columbia University student group says Hamas terrorist attacks were justified

Jeremiah Poff is an education and culture reporter for the Washington Examiner. A Virginia native, he previously worked for the Cardinal Newman Society, the Department of Education, and the College Fix. He graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2019 with a degree in journalism and a minor in human life studies.

A pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University released a statement Monday that said the recent attacks on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas were a justified"counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor."

"Despite the odds against them, Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor — which receives billions of US dollars annually in military aid and possesses one of the world's most robust surveillance and security apparatuses. Any omission of this context — any rhetoric of 'an unprovoked Palestinian attack' — is shamefully misleading," the group said.

"As long as you perpetuate this narrative, fighting will continue to break out until justice is achieved. Because nothing else is working," the group said."As Columbia students, our classes regularly discuss the inevitability of resistance as part of the struggle for decolonization. We study under renowned scholars who denounce the fact that the media requires oppressed peoples to be 'perfect victims' in order to deserve sympathy.

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