More on Hamas cheerer Arab "palestinian" pro jihad Mohsen Mahdawi

From Shai Davidai - Asst. Professor. Barred from @Columbia for speaking out against anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-American terrorism:

 Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai:

I don’t know what Mohsen Mahdawi (the @Columbia student detained by ICE earlier today) was arrested for—and like anyone else, he deserves due process.

But before you turn him into a folk hero, here are a few facts:

1. Before moving to the U.S., Mohsen studied Computer Engineering at Birzeit University—a campus long tied to terrorism and anti-Western extremism.

2. In college, Mohsen wrote a poem praising Dalal Mughrabi—the terrorist who murdered 38 Israelis, including 13 children, in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre. This was the worst massacre of Jews in Israel until the October 7 Massacre.

3. Expressing his anger at Israel, Mohsen once stated that "stones and Molotovs weren’t enough” to satisfy his thirst for revenge.

4. Mohsen proudly noted on social media that his cousin is a high-ranking member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

5. Despite multiple chances to do so, Mohsen refused to condemn Hamas for the October 7 massacre, calling them merely “a product of the occupation.”

6. Mohsen led pro-Hamas protests under the “By Any Means Necessary” banner—standing beside @NerdeenKiswani who has openly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”

7. In a pro-Hamas protest at in January 2024, Mohsen declared that “there is nothing more honorable than dying for a noble cause.”

8. Despite all of this, and even though he denied any allegations of rape and torture by Hamas, I invited Mohsen in December 2023 (and then again in April 2024) to help start a moderate, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian, anti-Hamas organization on campus. He declined.

I hope justice is served in his case. But let’s be real about who this guy is.

Apr 14, 2025. X (Arch.)

CBS 60 Min. Dec 5, 2023.
Mohsen Mahdawi expressed joy when he recalls Hamas Oct 7 attacks and his exciting feeling he had.

 

In December 2023, during Israel’s war against Hamas, Mahdawi was interviewed [00:06:07] on the television show “60 Minutes” to discuss his campus activism. During the interview, Mahdawi said [00:08:17]: “When somebody is hurting you, when you see this person is being punched in the face and this feeling, it is: You now feel my pain.
The interviewer replied [00:08:30] back to Mahdawi: “But this Hamas attack wasn't a punch in the face. This was a horrible terror attack.”
Mahdawi then said [00:08:43] that he “can empathize” with what Hamas did...
Canary.

Mohsen Mahdawi’s Calls for Israel’s Destruction, Justification of Hamas Terrorism and Support for the Pro-Hamas Encampment at Columbia University (Columbia)

Mohsen Mahdawi is an anti-Israel activist leader who called for Israel’s destruction and justified Hamas terrorism in late 2023. Ten years earlier, he celebrated a terrorist who had murdered dozens of Israeli Jews in 1978. Mahdawi also showed support for the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia in April 2024.  

Mahdawi made his late 2023 statements after a series of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

Hamas is a designated terrorist organization founded in 1987 that is dedicated to destroying Israel and killing Jews. Since 2001, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at Israel and on October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 200 hostages, including children and the elderly.

In December 2023, Mahdawi served as co-president of DAR Palestine at Columbia University (Dar at Columbia), Columbia’s Palestinian student union, which is reportedly part of a coalition of 80 anti-Israel student groups. Columbia is located in New York, New York.

Mahdawi was also affiliated with the pro-terror activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) in 2023. He was reportedly a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) that same year. 

Mahdawi is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In December 2023, CBS reported [00:07:10] that Mahdawi “grew up in a refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.” 

As of February 20, 2024, Mahdawi, who also goes by Mohsen Khader Mahdawi, was listed in Columbia’s online directory as a student in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia’s School of General Studies. 

As of March 7, 2024, Mahdawi’s LinkedIn profile said he was slated to graduate from Columbia in 2024. 

As of the same date, Mahdawi’s LinkedIn also said he studied computer engineering at Birzeit University (Birzeit) from 2008 to 2014. 

Birzeit University’s student body has celebrated terrorists since at least 2003. That year, student government elections featured models of exploding Israeli buses, as parties competed on the basis of which Palestinian faction had killed the most Israelis. 

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🚨 COLUMBIA STUDENT ARRESTED BY ICE: MEET MOHSEN MAHDAWI 🚨

📍 Anti-Jewish. Anti-American. Pro-Jihad.

Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by ICE following a crackdown on pro-Hamas incitement at U.S. universities.

🔴 Delivered speeches preaching “empathy” for genocidal jihadists
🔴 Glorifies terrorism on social media, celebrates Palestinian “resistance”
🔴 Started his education at Birzeit University — known for its ties to Hamas
🔴 Somehow still an undergrad after 17 years? Something doesn’t add up

💥 Terror sympathizers don’t belong in U.S. classrooms—especially not on student visas.

🔥 ICE just did what Columbia wouldn’t.

He is calling for Martyrdom. Disgusting call by Islamists!
This is the next “hero” that is being defended by the American Muslim Organizations.
Send him back
We don’t want haters and Hamas infiltrators in our country.
He #Mohshen - must first fight for free speech for his… https://t.co/B879WFOc5g

— Soraya M. Deen, MA (@SoooMD) April 15, 2025