- Dozens of dead ‘journalists’ named on wall memorial in Pulitzer Hall worked for Hamas’ TV and radio propaganda stations and other pro-jihad networks
- At least THREE were alleged terrorists, according to Israeli sources
Columbia University finally sent in the New York Police Department on Tuesday night to clear anti-Israel protesters mouthing pro-Hamas messages.
But DailyMail.com can now reveal that administrators may need to look in-house next if they truly want to clean house.
For a new investigation has uncovered an endorsement of Hamas media outlets in – of all places – Columbia’s storied journalism school.
Mounted on either side of the entryway to Pulitzer Hall – named after Joseph Pulitzer, the founder of the university’s journalism school and the namesake of the coveted Pulitzer Prize – there is a memorial purporting to honor ‘journalists’ killed in the Israel-Gaza war.
The honorees were selected from a list compiled by the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
However, 21 of the 98 names displayed were employed by Hamas’ propaganda TV and radio stations, 11 worked for outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, and at least three were active alleged terrorists before their deaths.
The school has not publicized the memorial, but in February Columbia’s journalism professor Nina Berman shared a picture of it to her personal Instagram account, accompanied by the following warning: ‘Anyone commenting with doubts about the legitimacy of these journalists or suggestions that they are terrorists will be promptly blocked.’
Though while Columbia Journalism School may regard its display as a tribute to ‘journalists,’ facts suggest otherwise.
Mohamed Khalifeh, a director at ‘Al Aqsa Television,’ is just one of 15 memorialized names who worked for the Hamas-operated media network operating in Gaza.
In 2010, the Obama administration sanctioned Al Aqsa TV as a terrorist entity.
‘Al-Aqsa is a primary Hamas media outlet and airs programs and music videos designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood,’ the US Treasury Department noted.
‘[We] will not distinguish between a business financed and controlled by a terrorist group, such as Al-Aqsa Television, and the terrorist group itself,’ the department concluded.
By Todd Bensman
