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• When: 2024-11-11

• Where: Columbia University

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• Organizations: CUAD

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• CUAD organized a vigil to “honor the martyrs of the genocide” on Veterans Day in front of Butler Library. See Instagram post (screenshot). The flier reads in regards to Veterans Day, “We reject this holiday and refuse to celebrate it. The American war machine should not be honored for the horrors unleashed on others.” Organizers included Mahmoud Khalil, and individuals seen participating in the event and speaking with organizers included Isra Hirsi and Mona Khalidi (Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies of SIPA, and wife of Professor Rashid Khalidi).

• CUAD handed out flyers quoting PFLP leaders George Habash and Ghassan Kanafani, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Other flyers targeted Columbia University trustees, stating “Liberation is inevitable if you are brave enough to fight for it.”

• A Jewish student passing by CUAD's "Martyr's Day" Vigil yelled "Expel CUAD", to which he was told that "This is an official event, you are not allowed to disrupt, that is against the rules” and "To shut up and that [he] should be arrested" by Mona Khalidi. The student was then escorted out by security.

• In parallel, several Jewish and veteran students held a commemoration of Veterans Day on the College Walk lawns. Andrew Timberg, a known CUAD organizer, shouted at them  “Fucking dickheads, can’t you see we’re honoring our martyrs?” No delegates, staff, or security approached to disengage, and students were forced to resolve the matter peacefully. 

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• See X posts here and here.

• See Free Beacon article here.

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