Columbia President Shafik Said This Anti-Semitic Prof Was Grading Papers Before His Exit from Columbia. He’s Been a Constant Presence in the Encampment Ever Since.

Nearly two weeks ago, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik assured members of Congress that an anti-Semitic professor had been terminated. That professor, Mohamed Abdou, was "grading his students' papers" before the end of the semester and would "never teach at Columbia again," Shafik said.

Instead, Abdou—a self-described "Muslim anarchist" who teaches a class on "Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition"—has been a regular presence in the unsanctioned "Gaza Solidarity" tent encampment that has plagued Columbia since student protesters constructed it on the day of Shafik's testimony. The Washington Free Beacon has spotted him daily—talking to student leaders, lounging in the sun, and participating in demonstrations.

Abdou's status as an encampment regular reflects the protest's radical nature. Before joining Columbia's faculty, Abdou said he was "with Hamas" and "the resistance" during a January interview with Revolutionary Left Radio.

It also calls into question another aspect of Shafik's testimony. Facing questions from members of the House Education Committee on Abdou's pro-Hamas rhetoric, Shafik suggested the professor already had one foot out the door at Columbia.

"He will never work at Columbia again," Shafik said. "He has been terminated, and not just terminated, but his files will show that he will never work at Columbia again."

"He is grading his students' papers and will never teach at Columbia again, and that will be on his permanent record."

While the Free Beacon has not spotted Abdou grading papers in the encampment, he has served as a sort of faculty adviser for the unsanctioned protesters who have occupied Columbia's West Lawn.

The role is a familiar one for Abdou. In February, roughly one month after he joined the Ivy League university, Abdou organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton, with one demonstrator calling the former secretary of state a "war criminal" who "will burn." On their way out, protesters broke into chants of "Free, free Palestine."

"Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this," Abdou wrote in a now-deleted social media post.

In other posts, Abdou has shared pictures from the encampment and frequently expressed his support for the "courageous students putting everything on the line & fighting for a just cause."

In recent days, meanwhile, Abdou has refuted Shafik's testimony regarding his termination, saying the president "lied on several counts."

"I am not terminated," he told the Electronic Intifada Podcast on April 24. "My contract is coming to an end."

Abdou came under fire after the Free Beacon unearthed his pro-Hamas rhetoric in a Feb. 27 report.

Four days after Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, Abdou in a Facebook post said he was "with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad." He also lamented "false reports accusing Arabs and Muslims of decapitating the heads of children and being rapists."

During his Jan. 5 interview with Revolutionary Left Radio, meanwhile, he declared his support for Hamas and "the resistance." The terror group’s "dedicated few," he said, worked in "stealth mode" on Oct. 7 to defeat a "larger enemy" in Israel.

"The warriors, the resistance fighters that were in Hamas, numbered less than 1,500 and look how they flipped the table—not only on an entire settler colonial state with no definable borders, but rather on the whole world," he said during another interview on "Islam and Anarchism" he gave in November.

"You don't need mass movements to change the world. You need a dedicated thousand, 1,500, a few thousand, that really are organized and know what it is that they're doing, what they're fighting for."

Abdou repeated his praise for Hamas during a December "round table conversation" titled "Palestine 1492: Settler-Colonialism, Solidarity, & Resistance."

"Look what 1,500 warriors were able to do, to whatever extent that we agree or disagree or partially accept, or whatever, Hamas or not," he said. "But ultimately, I support the resistance."

Shortly thereafter, on Jan. 16, Columbia's Middle East Institute extended a "warm welcome" to Abdou, the Ivy League school’s latest visiting professor in Modern Arab Studies.

Abdou is not the only anti-Semitic Columbia professor to accuse Shafik of lying in her congressional testimony to Congress.

Shafik at one point said Joseph Massad—a Jordanian professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History—was under investigation and "spoken to" over an Oct. 8 op-ed that lauded Hamas's attack as "incredible" and "awesome." Shafik also suggested Massad was removed from his role as chair of the Columbia Arts and Sciences Academic Review Committee and pledged to pull him from the position if he was not already.

Hours later, Massad said he was not under investigation and remained chair of the committee, which conducts reviews of the school’s departments and guides "administrative decisions." He also said Columbia administrators did speak to him about his op-ed—but that they offered him support.

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https://www.mabdou.net/biography

Dr. Mohamed Abdou graduated from Queen’s University with a Doctorate in Cultural Studies and holds an BAH/MA in Sociology. Starting Spring 2024, he will be the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Middle-Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) Program at the Middle-East Institute. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University’s Einaudi Center’s Racial Justice Program and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as anti-racist feminist, gender, sexuality, women, decolonial and post-colonial studies with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa and Turtle Island. He is a self-identifying Muslim anarchist and diasporic settler of color. While at Cornell, he was living on Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, Haudenosaunee territory. While lecturing and organizing at Columbia U in New York City (NYC) he will be on the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger peoples. He has taught (under) graduate courses on Settler-colonialism, Abolition, Anti-Colonialism, and Anti-Imperialism, Intimacy, Family & Kinships, North African, Islamic, BIPOC, queer-feminist, and radical newest social movements, as well as on overarching subjects as Research Methodologies, the Global Political Economy of Development, (Pre-) Modern/Classical and Poststructuralist Political Philosophy and Social Theory at the American University of Cairo, as well as Cornell and Queen’s University. He has also taught a course on Indigenous Land Education and Black Geographies at the University of Toronto-OISE-SJE. He is author of the book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He wrote his transnational ethnographic and historical-archival Ph.D. on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary. It investigates the inseparability of studies of race from religion and gender from sexuality. His current project examines how spiritual orientations/practices can inform non-racial conceptualizations of indigeneity and troubles current decolonial social movements that are animated by secular anti-global and anti-Capitalist aspirations. His research stems from his organizing towards BIPOC and Palestinian liberation and involvement with post-anti-Globalization Seattle 1999 movements, some of which include the Tyendinaga Mohawks and the sister territories of Kahnawake, Akwesasne, and Kanehsatake, during the standoff over the Culbertson Tract, as well as the anti-War protests of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and the 2011 Egyptian ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings.

Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island.

He is a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo and recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies’ Inequalities, Identities, and Justice research team at Cornell University

If he isn't a naturalized citizen, then deport the evil scum. Didn't 9/11 teach us ANYTHING?

People like this contribute nothing of value to society. For a long time, to emigrate to the USA you had to have proof of your assets so you wouldn't be a burden on the country and show you had desired skills to contribute to the country. This bastard would never have been admitted to the USA under the old rules.

I remember the antiwar protests of the 1960s. I was there. I was young, stupid, and in college mostly to keep my 2-S deferment.

I feel sorry for the actual students here. They’re young, stupid, misled, misguided, and maleducated. But when I see guys like this douchebag of a professor here, they remind me of other a-holes I knew 55 years ago, who were eager to incite and agitate college students to go out and do really *stupid* things...

That’s when I want to see cops breaking up this camp with dogs, nightsticks, and pepper spray. I want to see Dr. Mohamed Abdou here sitting on the sidewalk, clutching his fractured skull and spitting out broken teeth. Then, after he’s out of the hospital, I want to see his sorry ass deported to whatever s**thole Third World country will take him.

I was young and stupid, once. But thank God and Jesus, I grew up. I want to see these idiot students live long enough to learn the errors of their ways.

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