(Free Beacon) A Columbia University “environmental justice” lecturer endorsed Palestinian “resistance in ALL its forms” shortly after the Oct. 7 terror attack and called for an end to Zionism, a Washington Free Beacon review of her social media posts found. She also described Hamas’s underground tunnels as “an essential form of resistance.”
The lecturer, Hadeel Assali, runs Columbia’s “Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice” seminar. She’s also a postdoctoral research scholar — a position supported by a grant from the university’s Graduate Equity Initiative, according to her Columbia bio. Her work focuses on the “ongoing colonial legacies of the discipline of geology as well as anti-colonial ways of knowing and relating to the earth in southern Palestine.”
