Columbia University Professor Who Praised Oct. 7 Massacre Still Teaching Zionism Course
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Category: PERSECUTION OF GOD’S PEOPLE
Summary:
Columbia University continues to employ Joseph Massad, a professor who publicly praised Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, describing the actions as “astounding” and lauding the violence in several articles. Massad teaches a course on Palestinian-Israeli politics and society that covers the history of Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite university efforts to combat antisemitism and ideological bias—such as adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism and partnering with Jewish groups—critics argue that retaining Massad undermines those efforts. Columbia has also appointed officials to oversee compliance with a federal settlement aimed at promoting viewpoint diversity in its Middle Eastern studies program.
Mysterion Insights
Scripture: Psalm 94:20-21
"Can a throne of destruction be allied with Thee, one which devises mischief by decree? They band themselves together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death."
Commentary:
The persistence of voices in academic institutions that openly praise violent attacks against Israelis confronts us with how normalized antagonism toward God’s covenant people has become in some circles. Universities are influential, and their choices have real ripple effects in society. When endorsement of terror is tolerated in places shaping future leaders, it gives a sober snapshot of the spiritual contest underneath today’s ideologies. The Scripture points to the reality that schemes against the righteous are woven into the fabric of a fallen world—a pattern the prophets saw escalating as the day advances.
Prophetic Trend:
Hostility against Israel is increasingly legitimized within influential Western institutions, illustrating how prophetic patterns of opposition unfold even far beyond Israel’s borders.
Mysterion Prophetic Impact Rating: B - Moderate What does this mean?
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Source Excerpt:
Pro-Hamas demonstrators at Columbia University in New York City, US, April 29, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs Columbia University has retained a professor who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel — where the Palestinian terrorist group sexually assaulted women and men, kidnapped the elderly, and murdered children in their beds — allowing him to teach a course on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As previously reported by The Algemeiner, Joseph Massad, who teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history, published an encomium to Hamas in The Electronic Intifada which lauded the Oct. 7 atrocities as “astounding,” “awesome,” “incredible,” and the basis of future assaults on the Jewish state. Additionally, Massad went as far as to exalt the Hamas paragliders who flew into a music festival to slaughter the young people attending it as the “air force of the Palestinian resistance.” “Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them,” Massad wrote. Massad went on to boast that ...
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Source: Algemeiner
Posted on 01-21-2026 17:35