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During the spring of 2024, Columbia Visiting Professor Muhammed Abdou became infamous for his role in the illegal pro-Hamas encampment on the campus of Columbia university. The professor proudly boasted about being the first professor to move his classes to the pro-terror ‘solidarity zone’ and brazenly celebrated Hamas for the October 7 massacre while outright denying that the terrorist insurgents participated in additional attrocities such as rape and tortureCalled before Congress to justify Columbia’s failure to halt open Jew hatred, then-University President Minouche Shafik declared that Abdou had “been terminated, and not just terminated, but his files will show that he will never work at Columbia again.” Despite such promises, Abdou was repeatedly spotted in the following weeks participating in the so-called “Gaza Solidarity” zone, making a mockery of Shafik’s promises. “The Washington Free Beacon has spotted him daily—talking to student leaders, lounging in the sun, and participating in demonstrations,” an article in that publication described.

So how is it that two years later, despite the university administration’s much-hyped deal with the Trump administration to stamp out antisemitism in return for restoring over $400 million in federal funding, Abdou was officially scheduled to speak at an event at a Columbia-affiliated seminary last week?

Abdou’s talk was hosted by Queer Muslims of NYC, an “antiracist, abolitionist, grassroots collective rooted in Islamic Liberation Theology, committed to gender justice, queer justice, anti-capitalism, and decolonization.” Students for a Liberated Palestine at UTS, another radical pro-Hamas campus group that openly promotes “intifada revolution” and supported the illegal campus encampments, was a co-sponsor of the event.

The forum was scheduled to take place in the Stewart Room of the Union Theological Seminary (UTS) which is affiliated with Columbia University. That space is also used by Columbia’s Earl Hall Center for Religious Life to host reading groups and other events.

Promotional materials advertised the event as an “Iftar dinner & galvanizing talk.” Abdou’s address was titled “Death to the Akademy: How To Be a Thorn in Their Throat Amidst Snakes in the Grass.” The event promised to provide “strategies for student organizers who seek to confront the liberal Akademy and topple [the] Euro-Amerikan empire where they are” and discuss “the spiritual and racial-religious war our peoples have been fighting since 1492.”

Flyers advertising the event notably made use of inverted red triangles which are widely recognized as a Hamas symbol used to identify Israeli targets.

The heinous event was scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 12. On Monday, March 10, the Washington Free Beacon publicly broadcast news of Abdou’s scheduled return to a Columbia-affiliated campus. It was only then that the university—no doubt fearing a further public relations debacle and renewed threats to withhold federal funding—sprung into action and cancelled the pro-Hamas forum.

UTS spokeswoman Afsheen Shamsi told the Free Beacon that the event was greenlit “through the withholding of key information.”

“Upon becoming aware of the unacceptable imagery and rhetoric used to promote the event and its ties to violence, President Jones revoked approval for what was to have been an Iftar (evening meal to break Ramadan fast) and made it clear to students that Union does not support violence or hate speech,” Shamsi said. “As a seminary with a longstanding commitment to peace and justice, Union strongly condemns violence of any kind.”

Despite the University’s last-minute refusal to play host, the speech went forward at an off-campus location and was every bit as heinous as one might imagine. Abdou’s manifest Jew hatred and fervor for Islamic terrorism has only been deepened by his forced ouster from Columbia University.

Video clips shared by the Manhattan Institute’s Stu Smith on X reveal Abdou to be an unrepentant Hamas enthusiast eager to witness more Jewish bloodshed.

“Let us engage in jihad, and there are rules for jihad, and Muslims know that Allah has commanded rules. We don’t engage in wanton violence, but we don’t accept the negative peace either,” Abdou said.

In one chilling section of his address, Abdou lauded alleged assassin Elias Rodriguez who has been charged with the Washington, DC murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, who were both employees of the Israeli Embassy, as they were leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee last spring.

“God bless him. He took action. He took action. Elias, he took action. Take action,” Abdou said of the murderer Rodriguez. “Not only that kind of action, just to be very clear, because there’s also building. We need to destroy. We need to create alternatives.”

Abdou urged students to “be a threat” to their universities.  “If you throw a wrench into that system, you’ll discombobulate. So be a threat, fulfill it,” he stated.

Event host Queer Muslims of NYC did not take kindly to the cancellation of their event space for this Jew-hating jamboree.

“The UTS administration has moved to shut down the talk with Dr. Abdou and this sacred Iftar gathering during the holy month of Ramadan, co-hosted by Queer Muslims of NYC and Students for a Liberated Palestine at UTS,” the group stated in an Instagram post. “We strongly condemn the Seminary’s flagrant Islamophobia and utter disregard for Muslim students and community, and we refuse to capitulate to the Seminary’s demand to make this event fully virtual.”

The group also revealed that despite the Union Theological Seminary’s statements claiming to be shocked at the true nature of the event, UTS still agreed to pay for the food required for the dinner, supported the move to an off-campus location, and wished the hosts “a successful event.”

Those hardly seem like the actions of a university determined to stamp out Jew hatred.