Columbia's memorial to 'terrorists' EXPOSED: University's prestigious ... trends now
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.
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.
DailyMail.com can now reveal that administrators may need to look in-house next if they truly want to oust all terrorist sympathizers from campus.
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.
In 2007, the producers of Al-Aqsa TV's animated children's show star, a Mickey Mouse-like character named Farfour, were exposed for promoting radical Islam, hatred of Jews, and encouraging children to arm themselves with AK-47 assault rifles.
The station's response to global outrage was to depict an 'Israeli' character beating Farfour to death, before replacing Farfour with a bee named Nahool, which also preached violence.
Al-Aqsa TV also openly celebrated a terrorist bus bombing in Tel Aviv in 2012 that wounded 22 Israelis.
'God willing, we will soon see body bags,' an Al-Aqsa announcer said on air.
In 2016, Obama's State Department designated Al-Asqa TV's director, Fathi Ahmad Mohammad Hammad, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
In addition to running Al-Aqsa TV, Hammad is Hamas' interior minister and, according to State Department, served as a senior military commander who 'coordinated terror cells' and supervised tunnel construction under Gaza.
The Obama administration had good reason for concern.
'Though social media alone, ISIS was able to recruit over 100,000 foreign terrorist fighters to come to Iraq/Syria and fight between 2014 and 2017,' retired FBI counterterrorism Special Agent James G. Conway told DailyMail.com.
'Media today plays a key role in international terrorism,' said Conway, who now owns Global Intel Strategies, an international police training company. 'Al-Aqsa [TV], as the
