Hamas funded Columbia protesters, bragged to hostages about their ‘American operatives’

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By | Mar 26, 2025

It was obvious from the beginning that the student protesters were tools of Hamas. Now it turns out that they were actually an arm of Hamas. This supports, of course, the idea that those among them who are not U.S. citizens should be deported.

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“Columbia activists worked with Hamas, captors told rescued hostage Shlomi Ziv,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, March 25, 2025:

Hamas kidnappers told rescued hostage Shlomi Ziv the terrorist organization had operatives on American campuses, according to a Monday lawsuit by October 7 victims, with the terrorists showing him articles and photographs of Columbia university protests.

In a lawsuit filed Monday to the New York Southern District Court against Within Our Lifetime and its leader Nerdeen Kiswani, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and representative Maryam Alwan, Columbia-Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace and representative Cameron Jones, and Columbia University Apartheid Divest and lead negotiator Mahmoud Khalil, Plaintiff Ziv said that his Hamas captors referred to protests planned by the defendants when bragging about having American operatives.

The lawsuit alleged not only that Columbia SJP renewed its dormant Instagram activity three minutes before the attack and National SJP appeared to have produced propaganda material during or before the massacre, but argued that the affiliated groups been financed and supported by Hamas through organizations that the terrorist group founded.

The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas founded the Palestine Committee in 1988 to fund and support its operations, the suit alleged, creating arms such as Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and the Islamic Association for Palestine.

After HLF and IAP were exposed, key members of the group allegedly founded by American Muslims for Palestine. AMP sponsored the first National SJP convention, which according to the suit has no independent corporate structure and is controlled by AMP.

Columbia SJP is a chapter of NSJP and WOL is a rebranded New York City Students for Justice in Palestine. The suit noted that Columbia JVP has a close relationship with the local SJP chapter, as do the national bodies. The suit alleged that JVP is use to provide cover to SJP against charges of antisemitism. CUAD, a coalition of hundreds of student groups, according to the suit ceased to be dormant until November 2023 after the Columbia SJP and JVP chapters were banned, and according to the suit has been acting through CUAD.

“Upon information and belief, and based upon statements made to Plaintiff Shlomi Ziv by his Hamas captor, Hamas and AMP/NSJP provided financial, organizational, and other support to CUAD and the Columbia AMP/NSJP Affiliates for the Encampment,” read the suit.

Khalil, who has represented CUAD through the protests in New York City, is now at the center of the US federal government’s campaign to deport pro-Hamas activist students from the country….

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  1. The entire episode proves that non-military civil demonstrations looks more serious than it is and on this is where the Arabs misjudged Israel and the el -Assads misjudged their opposition.