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Petition to fire pro-Hamas Columbia professor nears 40,000 signers

History & politics lecturer Joseph Massad published an article referring to the deadly terrorist attack as an “awesome stunning victory”

Newsroom October 18 01:17

A petition to remove a Hamas-praising professor from his tenured position at Columbia University is nearing 40,000 signatures after just three days.

The day after Islamist terrorists from the Gaza Strip committed the worst attack on Israeli soil in decades earlier this month, history and politics lecturer Joseph Massad published an article referring to the deadly event as an “awesome stunning victory.”

In the opinion piece, titled “Just another battle or the Palestinian war of liberation?” Massad called the October 7 attack that killed over 1,300 Israelis “astonishing” and “remarkable.”

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Painting a positive picture of the terrorists who dropped from the skies into a music festival being enjoyed by unsuspecting concertgoers, he wrote “awesome were the scenes witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the news, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking through Israel’s prison fence or gliding over it by air.”

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