(Free Beacon) Columbia University is promoting a course at the pro-Hamas People’s Forum taught by an anti-Israel professor emeritus, Rashid Khalidi, which requires students to read a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader’s teachings.
Khalidi was slated to teach his class, “A Short Course on Palestine,” at Columbia during the fall semester, but backed out and moved it to the People’s Forum over the Ivy League school’s settlement with the Trump administration. Now, Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies is similarly condemning the deal on a webpage pushing the class, complete with a registration link.
“A course on modern Middle Eastern history was originally scheduled to be taught at Columbia University in Fall 2025,” the webpage reads. “However, as Columbia continues its complicity in covering up the U.S.-Israeli genocide against Palestine and capitulates to the Trump administration at the expense of academic freedom and student rights, Professor Rashid Khalidi found it impossible to teach his course.”
