Columbia students hosted pro-Hamas couple to speak weeks before campus exploded into anti-Israel protests [Video]

10:05 EDT 24 Apr 2024, updated 10:55 EDT 24 Apr 2024

Columbia University students hosted a pro-Hamas couple who said ‘there is nothing wrong with being a Hamas fighter’ two weeks before its campus exploded in anti-Israel protests.

Khaled Barakat was invited to present a seminar called ‘Resistance 101’ along with his wife Charlotte Kates, the international coordinator of Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Barakat is allegedly a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the US government for its links to Hamas and Hezbollah.

The PFLP has been involved in several suicide bombings and claimed responsibility for a 2014 attack on a Jerusalem synagogue which killed four rabbis and a policeman. Barakat has denied he is linked to the organization.

However he and Samidoun, and by extension Kates, have been banned from Germanyover alleged anti-Semitism, due to the ‘celebration of October 7’ by Samidoun members. …