Mohamed Abdou is an “Islamic scholar” who is lost in admiration for Hamas, and how it managed to launch its “stealth” attack on October 7. What most of the world sees as unspeakable atrocities, with Hamas operatives beheading babies, burning children alive, raping, torturing, mutilating, and murdering Israeli girls, cutting the breasts off women and using them to play catch, cutting off the genitalia and gouging out the eyes of men, murdering children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, Mohamed Abdou sees as glorious deeds of derring-do, by a greatly outnumbered force of brave Muslim warriors, and he wants the whole world to know it.
Abdou is now teaching at Columbia, where he was appointed as that appetizing thing, a visiting professor, for the Spring Term. He’s already in his third month of teaching, no doubt singing the praises of Hamas in a lecture hall on Morningside Heights to a captive audience of entranced undergraduates. Why, if he performs to the satisfaction of Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, and Hamid Dabashi, three other admirers of Hamas on the permanent faculty at Columbia, he may even be made an offer for a permanent appointment to the Middle East Institute.
Robert Spencer wrote briefly about Abdou here, and more on this man, the latest moral monster to slither through the underbrush on Morningside Heights can be found here: “He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.” By Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon, February 27, 2024:
During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel….
It wasn’t a “dedicated few” who swooped into Israel to rape, torture, and murder unarmed civilians both at the Nova dance party and at nearly two dozen kibbutzim where people were just waking up by the dawn’s early light, only to find 3,000 well-armed and fanatical killers arriving on motorcycles, pick-up trucks, and paragliders, determined to rape, torture, and murder as many innocent Israelis as they could find at the just-ended Nova dance party and at more than 20 kibbutzim. There were also members of Israel’s security services who died on that day, including several dozen unarmed soldiers guarding the border with Gaza, 58 police, 10 members of the Shin Bet, and about 250 other soldiers, killed as they tried to repel the Hamas invaders. In the fighting that day, those Israelis managed to kill 1,500 Hamas operatives, or half of those who had initially invaded. Mohamed Abdou wants us to think that those Hamas combatants fought a “larger enemy,” but in fact the total number of Israeli security forces involved in fighting the invaders on October 7 was about 300, that is, one-tenth the size of the invading force of 3,000.
Abdou teaches a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition,” where his students discuss “transnational feminist discourses” and “queer of color critiques.” The self-described “Muslim anarchist” has also emerged as a friend to Columbia’s anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a “war criminal” who “will burn” before chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”
“Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this,” Abdou wrote.
So he thinks the organising of an anti-Israel protest on campus is an accomplishment? After all, he’s “really proud of these students” who took part. Why is he “really proud”? Did they risk anything? Not at all. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Hold up a Palestinian flag in the middle of the quad — any quad, on any campus, from sea to shining sea, and watch as the keffiyeh-clad students come running from every dormitory room and classroom to yell and scream about Intifada Now! and Genocidal Jews, and that old-standby “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free.”
Columbia’s embrace of Abdou reflects what some Jewish students have described as a “severe and pervasive antisemitic hostile educational environment” seen on the school’s campus in the wake of Oct. 7.
Oh, those thin-skinned Jews, always moaning about antisemitism. What’s antisemitic about praising to the skies the Hamas “fighters” who gang-raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered 1,200 people just because they were Jews?
Danny says
This makes me sick and whoever allowed it at Columbia should be dropped off in Gaza draped in an Israeli flag. This kind of stuff makes me ashamed of my own country. What have we become? Somebody needs to kill that SOB before he performs his jihad right there on campus.
SC says
Totally agree. The faculty are free to choose their employees. Once the retard is gone their grants should follow.
somehistory says
mozlums have infiltrated schools, college campuses, local governments and the U.S House.
when one snake slithers in, he makes it possible for dozens more.
this hideous snake (can’t get much uglier than he) feels the power he and the other snakes have gained. But, it will be short lived for him and those like him, working on behalf of God’s enemy.
In ancient times, another small number of Hebrews, outnumbered by an evil enemy.
Judge Gideon had 300 men to fight against the 132,000 Midianites.
Just one of many times when the Jews had Divine help to defeat the evil armies of those who serve God’s enemy.
SC says
Guess which university loses every penny of federal grant money when the retard in chief gets the boot.
Wellington says
Unfortunately, Columbia is not at all the exception to higher education in America—and which higher education is now pretty much an oxymoron because cowardly fools like the still current head at MIT and outright bad people at Columbia like Mohammed Abdou continue to prevail.
As an aside, do I despise Islamic names because Islam is so evil or because evil seems so naturally attracted to Islamic names. Not sure, reasonable minds can differ to the extent that one discerns purpose and design here in human affairs and, yes, I do digress but nonetheless still wonder about names like “Adolf” and “Benito” as well as even “Joseph” because of turds like Stalin and Biden. Hey, these matters matter and connections do exist. And who of sense would ever name their new-born child “Adolf?” Not many and I so wish it would also be the case with “Mohammed.” But it’s not, now is it?
Mike says
They might as well appoint a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan or a chief official of a U.S. neo-Nazi organization to a major professor’s post at Columbia. Can anyone who wishes to defend Columbia Please explain the difference? I don’t see any.
James Lincoln says
So now, Columbia is officially a cesspool of hate.
Their degrees will become worthless.
Wellington says
“Their degrees will become worthless.”
I sure hope so, James. I sure hope so. If they don’t, then that will be a much bigger problem.
Rufolino says
“Woe on the universities of the West which pursue these policies !”
Becca R says
When I was accepted by Barnard my father bought me a solid gold Omega time piece. When I graduated from Barnard my parents took me to The Colony for lunch (no longer in existence but made somewhat known by viewers of The Feud). All of which were constructs of Western capitalist success.
I doubt Barnard or Columbia would make the list of any school I would be applying to today if I were of college age.
Actually,, I think I probably would skip college altogether and go directly to Interior Design School somewhere non controversial where I could learn a marketable skill. The liberal arts I could learn on my own by reading and taking foreign language courses. .
bill says
I am sure he would have admired Himmler too. Hamas is brutal to its own people too
Yeshayahu says
Nothing a IED can’t fix
OLD GUY says
Higher ed. seems to have lowered the bar.
Kenneth Johnson says
I try hard to understand to understand tolerance of other religions and points of view. I really do. But a so called institution of higher learlning hirering someone like this,
is prostituing the very idea of tolerance and higher learning. I went to college 75 years ago. I don’t believe that in my time this could have hapened. Never. KEN
Naja says
…………………………………Its going to be up to the people………………………..
Violet says
Globalist so called western leaders, elitists and wanna be elitists, like the Islamists, plan to destroy us.