Columbia University student groups and activists, including Mahmoud Khalil and the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) organization he represents, serve as “Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus” and should be held accountable “for aiding and abetting Hamas’ continuing acts of international terrorism,” according to a new lawsuit.
The families of October 7 victims and hostages filed the suit in federal court on Monday. It accuses well-known pro-Hamas activists and groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Americans Muslims for Palestine (AMP), of leading Hamas’s “U.S.-based in-house public relations firm.” Khalil’s CUAD, the suit states, is one of SJP and AMP’s “most important partners,” forming “the New York City branches of Hamas’ American propaganda firm.”
U.S. intelligence has long indicated that Hamas’s patrons in Iran encouraged and funded anti-Israel campus…
