Independent journalist Stu Smith recorded the meeting, which was held by video, and posted it on Twitter (or X).
Here is my recording of the “Resistance 101” event hosted by Columbia University Apartheid Divest which features speakers from Within Our Lifetime, Masar Badil, and Samidoun.
In a world where radicalism thrives on college campuses, I believe in radical transparency. pic.twitter.com/jRuSaY1VOq
— Stu (@thestustustudio) March 25, 2024
If there was any doubt…
“When I speak to my friends and brothers in Hamas Islamic Jihad you know the PFLP in Gaza these days, especially after October 7th, we talk about different things that has nothing to do with our movement… when they see students organizing outside… pic.twitter.com/x1MwrImkma
— Stu (@thestustustudio) March 26, 2024
(The reference by Barakat to his “friends” in Hamas in the clip below occurs at 1:16:24 in the full video above.)
Another speaker rejected a two-state solution, saying that what activists were “fighting for” was “every single inch of Palestine, from the river to the sea.” She added that the Palestinian struggle was also about “all oppressed people.”
In December, the Columbia School of Social Work saw Columbia students hold an event supporting Palestinian terrorism, which took place despite public statements by the university that the event would be canceled.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, “The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency,” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
