Cornell professor who praised Oct 7 Hamas attack joins another anti-Israel protest on campus

A Cornell University professor who was accused of "justifying terror" aft describing Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 cognition successful Southern Israel arsenic "exhilarating" is coming nether occurrence again for taking portion successful an anti-Israel march connected the assemblage field this week, erstwhile protesters could beryllium heard chanting "long unrecorded the intifada" earlier crashing a vocation fair. 

Russell Rickford, an subordinate prof of past astatine Cornell University, was seen on video with a keffiyeh astir his shoulders marching with dozens of anti-Israel supporters connected field Wednesday.

Some of the protesters, galore of whom wore look masks and were besides clad successful keffiyehs, carried Palestinian flags and signs reading, "Cornell divest from genocide" and "defund genocide." 

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Russell Rickford, an subordinate prof of past astatine Cornell University, was seen connected video with a keffiyeh astir his shoulders marching with dozens of anti-Israel supporters connected campus. (Courtesy New York Post)

The boisterous, pan-banging protesters yet disrupted a vocation just astatine the Statler Hotel connected campus, as Rickford could beryllium seen connected video looking connected and clapping his hands outside.

School officials said the demonstrators pushed past schoolhouse police officers, though it does not look that Rickford was portion of the radical that burst into the vocation fair. 

"Guests of the assemblage felt threatened. And students were denied their quality to acquisition the vocation fair," Joel Malina, the vice president of assemblage relations astatine Cornell said successful a statement. "This behaviour is unacceptable, a usurpation of assemblage policy, and illegal." 

One Jewish pupil told the New York Post that the instructor’s beingness astatine the protestation was "insane" and different accused him of "emboldening hate." Video shows the radical chanting, "long unrecorded the intifada." Intifada is an Arabic connection for a rebellion oregon uprising, oregon a absorption movement. 

Rickford, who specializes successful African American governmental culture, was roundly condemned past twelvemonth erstwhile helium made inflammatory comments astir Hamas’ sneak terror attack that killed 1,200 radical and led to the existent warfare successful Gaza.

"It was exhilarating, it was energizing…. I was exhilarated," Rickford said astatine the time. He aboriginal walked backmost the comments and apologized, describing the code arsenic "reprehensible."

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The self-identified "secular Marxist" yet went connected permission amid the media firestorm implicit his comments astir the Hamas sidesplitting spree against hundreds of civilians, including American citizens, but helium has present returned to the college. 

Amanda Silberstain, vice president of Chabad and Cornellians for Israel, an Israel advocacy radical connected campus, said Rickford marched with students to the Statler Hotel but is unsure if helium went inside.

"He was wearing a keffiyeh and smiling. Rickford knows he’s immune from consequences," Sillberstein told the Post. "We person a prof who is promoting antisemitic narratives and emboldening hate."

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Malina said that students who violated assemblage policies during the protestation would beryllium referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards for "immediate enactment including suspension" portion module and unit would beryllium referred to quality resources. 

"These individuals volition besides beryllium taxable to imaginable transgression charges," Malina said.

Cornell provided Fox News Digital with a anterior connection from Molina erstwhile asked for remark astir Rickford’s latest actions.

"Last October, Professor Russel Rickford made a horrific remark astatine an off-campus rally successful downtown Ithaca. As then-President Pollack and Board Chair Kayser noted astatine the time, his remark was reprehensible and demonstrated a implicit disregard for humanity. Professor Rickford apologized for his comments and took a voluntary permission of lack for the remainder of the world year."

"Consistent with well-established principles of world freedom, Cornell has a process for considering whether public statements specified arsenic those expressed disconnected field by Professor Rickford at a governmental rally autumn nether the class of protected speech, oregon alternatively demonstrate prohibited bias, discrimination, oregon harassment. Given that Professor Rickford’s comments were made as a backstage citizen in his escaped time, the university’s world enactment has concluded that Professor Rickford’s behaviour successful narration to this incidental did not conscionable that precocious bar."

Fox News Digital was incapable to scope Rickford for comment. 

Russell Rickford is an anti-Israeli prof astatine Cornell University who has called for an anti-racist "insurgency" to instrumentality powerfulness successful the U.S. to redistribute that powerfulness and resources distant from a purported "White supremacist" system. (YouTube/screenshot)

Rickford's comments connected governmental unit spell arsenic acold backmost arsenic a decade. 

In 2 videos reviewed by Fox News Digital, 1 from 2021 and different from 2014, Rickford discussed his tendency for an anti-racist "insurgent" radical to instrumentality powerfulness successful the United States. In 1 of the videos, helium said immoderate White radical are acceptable to perpetrate "race suicide" and went connected to sermon the "politics of violence" portion simultaneously attacking the ideals of civility. 

During a webinar hosted connected a Cornell level successful February 2021, Rickford endorsed "radical frameworks for anti-racism." The extremist frameworks telephone for a cardinal revolutionary alteration successful nine to alteration the organisation of wealthiness successful neo-Marxist fashion. 

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Russell Rickford is simply a past prof astatine Cornell University. (FOX News Digital | Getty)

"Radical anti-racists … knew justness required not … dialog … but genuine reallocations of resources and power. Attacking the roots of White supremacy meant challenging the mean operations of capitalism."

Rickford has besides said that the Black Lives Matter movement "reflects this much … redistributive mode of anti-racism," adding that "What we request is not much civilian dialog [but] much insurgent fashionable anti-racist movements that combat the full apparatus of oppression." 

Fox News’ Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.