{"id":2205910,"date":"2024-03-25T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-columbia-an-israeli-designated-terror-group-teaches-palestinian-resistance-101-and-lauds-plane-hijackings\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:19:29","slug":"at-columbia-an-israeli-designated-terror-group-teaches-palestinian-resistance-101-and-lauds-plane-hijackings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-columbia-an-israeli-designated-terror-group-teaches-palestinian-resistance-101-and-lauds-plane-hijackings\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University hosts an Israeli-designated terror group teaching &#8216;Palestinian Resistance 101&#8217; and praising plane hijackings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fat-columbia-an-israeli-designated-terror-group-teaches-palestinian-resistance-101-and-lauds-plane-hijackings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2205910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-different-than-donald-trump-white-house-reporters-grouse-about-limited-access-to-biden\/\" title=\"\u2018No Different Than Donald Trump\u2019: White House Reporters Grouse About Limited Access To Biden\">recent event held<\/a> in \u2064New \u2062York City by an anti-Semitic student group from \u2063Columbia University hosted speakers praising Hamas and\u2062 advocating for armed resistance against\u2064 Israel. \u2062The event featured figures\u200c known for extremist views, including support for terrorist organizations. \u200cDespite initial attempts \u200cto host the event at a university venue, it was held off-campus\u200b following objections. The event held in New \u200dYork City by an anti-Semitic \u2062student group from \u200cColumbia University featured speakers praising\u2063 Hamas, advocating armed resistance\u200b against Israel, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-freedom-to-prevail-in-iran-america-must-take-a-hard-line-stance-against-the-regime\/\" title=\"For Freedom To Prevail In Iran, America Must Take A Hard Line Stance Against The Regime\">supporting terrorist organizations<\/a>. Initially planned for a university\u200b venue, objections led to the event being \u2064moved off-campus.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday, a group of keffiyeh-clad individuals huddled around a computer to discuss the &#8220;Palestinian resistance.&#8221; Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 terror attack for showing &#8220;the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism.&#8221; Khaled Barakat, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist, lauded airplane hijackings as &#8220;one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While those speakers and other attendees were explicit in their support for terrorism against Jews, the event did not take place in Gaza, Doha, or Tehran. It took place in New York City, where an anti-Semitic Columbia University student group\u2014Columbia University Apartheid Divest\u2014invited the speakers to deliver a lecture on &#8220;the fight for liberation,&#8221; titled &#8220;Palestinian Resistance 101.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event, which the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> attended virtually, reflects the extreme anti-Semitic activism seen on college campuses in the wake of Hamas&#8217;s attack. In some cases, faculty members have advanced that activism.<\/p>\n<p>A Columbia faculty group, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, promoted the event in an Instagram post, which featured an image of a Palestinian boy throwing stones at an Israeli tank during the second intifada. The group launched in January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/opinion\/2024\/01\/22\/faculty-and-staff-pledge-to-take-back-our-university\/#:~:text=Columbia%20Faculty%20and%20Staff%20for,to%20advocating%20for%20Palestinian%20freedom.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledging<\/a> to stand with anti-Semitic student protesters and &#8220;take back our University.&#8221; Its members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/news\/2024\/01\/19\/faculty-and-staff-for-justice-in-palestine-calls-attention-to-violence-in-gaza-academic-freedom-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">include<\/a> classics professor Joseph Howley, history professor Manan Ahmed, and history professor Marwa Elshakry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Kates and Barakat, the Sunday event featured Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/blog\/nerdeen-kiswani-and-within-our-lifetime-united-palestine-what-you-need-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> for Israel to be &#8220;wiped off the map.&#8221; The three speakers routinely praised Hamas and Hezbollah, advocated for armed resistance against Israel, and encouraged attendees to &#8220;be of service \u2026 to the resistance movements that are on the front lines fighting Zionism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event was initially scheduled to take place at Columbia&#8217;s Barnard College, the university&#8217;s all-female undergraduate school. A flyer promoting the event listed the <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/home\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnard Center for Research on Women<\/a> as a host. At the start of the event, however, student organizers said they were forced to &#8220;change rooms&#8221; at the last moment after a Ph.D. student lodged a complaint to the university. The change was &#8220;part of a long line of Columbia&#8217;s long line of repression,&#8221; the organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether the updated event took place on campus or somewhere nearby. A Columbia spokeswoman said the university is &#8220;aware of an unsanctioned, unapproved event that took place last night&#8221; at an unnamed &#8220;residence.&#8221; Kates and Barakat addressed attendees via Zoom, while Kiswani attended in person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Columbia canceled the event, denying requests to use university space, as did Barnard,&#8221; the spokeswoman told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Despite this, the event organizers held the event in a residence with an online option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are investigating this matter and will not tolerate violations of university policy,&#8221; the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Barnard nor Columbia University Apartheid Divest responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday event featured a who&#8217;s who of anti-Semitic activists. Kates serves as &#8220;international coordinator&#8221; of Samidoun, a group that advocates for &#8220;Palestinian prisoners,&#8221; many of whom are convicted terrorists. In addition to its Israeli terror designation, Samidoun is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/germany-bans-pro-palestinian-group-samidoun-2023-10-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned in Germany<\/a> over its support for Hamas terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Barakat, Kates&#8217;s husband, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-irans-tentacles-are-reaching-europe-opinion-1790692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conducted interviews<\/a> on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Palestinian news sites <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/terry-glavin-the-curious-case-of-khaled-barakat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describe him<\/a> as a leader of the terror group. Israeli intelligence agencies say they have internal documents that cement his status as a PFLP terror leader.<\/p>\n<p>Kiswani, meanwhile, has led pro-Hamas rallies in New York City through Within Our Lifetime, which she founded in 2015. Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/instagram-removes-accounts-for-leading-nyc-pro-palestinian-group-within-our-lifetime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed the group&#8217;s account<\/a> last month after Kiswani used it to endorse Hamas&#8217;s attack and advocate for &#8220;whatever means necessary it takes&#8221; to topple Israel.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, Kates praised Iran as &#8220;a nation on the side of the Palestinian people, intervening and building a movement of resistance to free this entire region \u2026 from U.S. imperialism.&#8221; She also advocated for a campaign to end America&#8217;s list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actblue-facilitating-donations-to-terror-tied-charity-legal-group-says\/\" title=\"ActBlue Facilitating Donations to Terror-Tied Charity, Legal Group Says\">designated terror organizations<\/a> &#8220;entirely,&#8221; saying the list stops Palestinian activists from staying &#8220;in contact&#8221; with foreign actors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important to popularize campaigns to \u2026 scrap the U.S. terror list entirely, or at the very least to get Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni, Filipino, and other revolutionary organizations off the terror list,&#8221; Kates said. &#8220;Because that&#8217;s a weapon that&#8217;s being used against the Palestinian people, against the Arab people, and against the solidarity movement as a whole, and in order to kind of fundamentally deform the politics of the movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Barakat glowingly discussed the PFLP&#8217;s wave of terrorism during the 1960s and 1970s. He specifically praised the terror group for hijacking airplanes, which he said &#8220;introduced the Palestinian questions to the world.&#8221; Barakat falsely claimed the hijackings were done peacefully\u2014in fact, PFLP hijackers killed at least two pilots and one Israeli passenger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we take, for example, certain tactics that the Palestinian movement have practiced\u2014take, for example, hijacking airplanes,&#8221; Barakat said, &#8220;it was one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for these tactics, we would [have] never heard of \u2026 Palestinian women who led these kinds of heroic operations that introduced the Palestinian questions to the world,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If you take, for example, the speeches that were given to the people in the airplanes by Palestinian fighters \u2026 they&#8217;re all about what our struggle is about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kiswani called on fellow activists to openly advocate for violence against Jews. In the wake of Oct. 7, she said, anti-Israel &#8220;organizations&#8221; asked her not to discuss Oct. 7 or &#8220;resistance&#8221; during her speeches. Now, according to Kiswani, those organizations &#8220;mention resistance\u2014now they&#8217;ll talk about it three months later or five months later because they saw we did it, we got away with it, we got support for it.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t acquiesce to the idea [of], well, &#8216;Oh, they&#8217;re considered a terrorist organization, so we shouldn&#8217;t talk about resistance,'&#8221; Kiswani said of Hamas. &#8220;We&#8217;re kind of like the test subjects or the guinea pigs. We&#8217;re going to put ourselves out on the line, and you know, if people are okay with it, then they&#8217;ll jump on it later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the right to return home, and we will get that right by any means necessary,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gathering on Sunday saw keffiyeh-clad individuals discussing &#8220;Palestinian resistance.&#8221; Charlotte Kates from the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun praised Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 attack for symbolizing a liberated Palestine. Khaled Barakat, an activist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was also present<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":2205911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-25-at-4.43.27%E2%80%AFPM_736x514.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-25-at-4.43.27%E2%80%AFPM_736x514.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}