Local anti-Israel protester Tarek Bazrouk was in direct touch with Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida, federal documents allege. It’s a fascinating story, but let’s be honest: Hamas’ cheerleaders at Columbia and across the West didn’t need chat-room instructions to parrot the terrorists’ propaganda.
Learning chants like “From the River to the Sea” is practically part of freshmen orientation at countless colleges.
At Columbia, you can basically major in anti-Israel propaganda, though they call it “Middle Eastern Studies.”
And of course a host of “activist” groups on and off campus works to “educate” in radical worldviews: National Students for Justice in Palestine, Within Our Lifetime, US Palestinian Community Network the Palestinian Youth Movement and on and on.
Via outfits like the Tides Foundation, most are funded by wealthy left-wing Westerners like the Soros family and Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham.
The House has been investigating these “charities” for some time now, with nine nonprofits including the New York-based People’s Forum and Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC) flagged for special IRS attention.
The propaganda’s been flowing openly for decades now.
That’s why the demonstrations began the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks in Israel — at first, simply to cheer Hamas on.
Even though the terrorists literally broadcast their atrocities, which they proudly filmed with their GoPros — and Israel’s response was still weeks off.
None of which stopped the protesters from instantly painting Hamas as the victim.
Nor prevented Western media (largely seeped in the same propaganda) from routinely presenting Hamas’ wartime propaganda as fact.
Such are the benefits of a liberal education at a modern elite university.
These schools are now reeling from such Trump administration actions as challenging Columbia’s accreditation because of its “indifference to antisemitism,” but those moves only look drastic because they’re targeting institutions that got deeply radicalized long ago.
