Shocking moment Cornell history professor Russell Rickford - who was in favor of defunding the police - calls Hamas terrorist attacks 'exhilarating' and 'energizing' at pro-Palestine rally.
Cornell students are calling for the history professor who called Hamas' brutal assault on Israel 'exhilarating' to be removed from campusCornell University students are calling on the Ivy League school's board to take action against the controversial professor who passionately declared that he was 'exhilarated' by Hamas' brutal assault on Israel that claimed the lives of 1,400 people.
At least two students, both with families in Israel, came forward in the student-run Cornell Daily Sun to express concern for their safety on campus and to accuse Rickford of inciting more violence. 'As I said in that clip, I abhor the killing of civilians. If in face we believe in the West in the rhetoric that we spout about equality, about human rights, then we must recognize the tremendous disproportionality, the tremendous unevenness, the injustice and hypocrisy of Western support in celebration of Israeli war crimes, and the equation of any form of Palestinian resistance with terrorism,' Rickford said.
'I never felt like my personal safety was at risk until we started hearing that the actions of Hamas exhilarate another person, because those actions are completely and entirely focused on one objective, which is causing as much suffering, as much terror and as much horror to Jewish civilians, Jewish people is possible.'
'Can you shackles be taken away by killing civilians? No. Can your shackles be taken away by engaging in terrorism? No. But the exhilaration and the liberation that is felt when you attack the oppressor is just a common theme in revolution,' Khan added.'That's what they've done. You don't have to be a Hamas supporter to recognize it,' he added.In response to the speech, the crowd began chanting: 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Rickford was against Ithaca's attempt to consider an ambitious - and contentious - plan to remake its force 'from the ground up,' thinking it didn't go far enough.
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