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Assailant in stick attack of Israeli Columbia University student charged with hate crimehas already garnered more than 20,000 signatures — after he praised last week’s Hamas terror attacks as “awesome.”

on the Jewish nation — and in which he hails “the stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance” against “cruel colonizers.” Massad — a professor of Columbia’s Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History departments who has been employed by Columbia since 1999 — gushed about the “astonishing,” “astounding,” “awesome,” and “incredible” nature of the terror attacks against thousands of Israelis, 1,300 of whom were murdered and 3,000 more wounded.

The truck is emblazoned with the words, “DEAN SORETT: CONDEMN HAMAS TERRORISM NOW” alongside the gruesome image of what was an Israeli child’s room soaked in blood, juxtaposed with pro-Palestinian protesters in New York last week, one of whom is proudly displaying a swastika.Smoke rises from buildings, viewed from the Israeli side of the border, as the Israeli military conducts a bombardment on October 15, 2023 in northern Gaza.

Platek told The Post that she launched the petition “because I heard concerns from a couple dozen Columbia students, read the article, and was shocked.

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