And why not? Abdou is no different from the professors who are still employed, both at Columbia and elsewhere.
“Columbia students want ‘I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad’ prof back in classroom,” College Fix, July 16, 2024:
Students at Columbia’s Union Theological Seminary want the rehiring of a professor who posted “I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad” on social media shortly after the October 7 attack against Israel.
According to the students’ petition, modern Arab studies professor Mohamed Abdou’s statement merely was an expression of “support of the movement to liberate Palestine.”
At a congressional hearing in April, Columbia President Minouche Shafik said Abdou “will never work at Columbia again,” the Columbia Spectator reports.
Indeed, Abdou (pictured) told a media outlet in mid-May that his teaching contract with Columbia was set to expire at the end of that month anyway.
The petition contends the “targeting” of Abdou by Columbia “is in keeping with the broader trend, whereby people of color, especially Muslims, Arabs, and those not afforded the protections of tenured employment are most vulnerable to the McCarthyist backlash against pro-Palestinian speech.”
“Part of the legacy of [the Union Theological Seminary] is how it has been a meeting point and place of cultivation for many progressive movements in theology and its intersection with the public square,” the petition continues. “Black Theology, Latin American Liberationist Theology, Womanism, Feminism, and Queer Theologies have grown in the UTS community, and students come here for the opportunity to journey into how their faith can be active in the world around them.”…
Bruce David Watt says
Death cultists don’t belong with people trying to improve society. more indigenous POC have been killed and enslaved by Islamic death cultists than any other group in the past 1400 years, like letting the wolf run the sheep herd.
rick says
“The petition contends the “targeting” of Abdou by Columbia “is in keeping with the broader trend, whereby people of color, especially Muslims, Arabs, and those not afforded the protections of tenured employment are most vulnerable to the McCarthyist backlash against pro-Palestinian speech.”
Now just replace “pro-Palestinian speech” with “pro-Nazi speech” which it is and consider if Jews should put up with that by attending that school and even worse, supporting it with vast amounts of money. Palestinians = Nazis as far as Jews are concerned and the quicker that it understood the easier it is to understand what the “open dialogue” is all about.
Jewish students should just leave Columbia. And do not forget to take your money with you.If Arab money replaces Jewish money, which is very possible, it will not be an equal result as Muslim nations are no where close to the respect for learning as Jews are. In Muslim countries, indoctrination is closer to the “learning” experience.
JS says
Jewish students shouldn’t leave, the radical extremist should be fired.
James Lincoln says
rick says,
“Jewish students should just leave Columbia. And do not forget to take your money with you…”
And demand a tuition refund.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“Black Theology, Latin American Liberationist Theology, Womanism, Feminism, and Queer Theologies have grown in the UTS community, and students come here for the opportunity to journey into how their faith can be active in the world around them.”…
We expected no less from he “UTS community.”.After all, its most famous professor is the World’s Greatest Authority, Cornel West.
Forgive them, Lord, they know not what they do.
No, on second thought, don’t forgive them. Condemn these nitwits to reading each other’s papers, and attending each other’s lectures, now and forever, world without end.
Hoi Polloi says
Once had a stellar preacher out of UTS, but he managed to retain his beliefs rather than allowing himself to be indoctrinated; it can be done. Not that they aren’t trying. Any seminary student that sanctions a man who stands with gang-rapers and baby bakers should be expelled. Then there’s the starve the populace and live like kings in estero off the taxpayers of other countries fraud. Expel them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Those students should take up the scholarship offers that were made available from Iran and Yemen. University of Sana’a sounds good