Leading US-based anti-Israel activist groups, including Columbia University’s Apartheid Divest and Within Our Lifetime and heads like Mahmoud Khalil, had prior knowledge of the October 7 massacre, a lawsuit filed last week by families of the Hamas-led attack’s victims alleged. The lawsuit is seeking damages from activists aiding and abetting Gaza’s terrorist organizations.
According to it, some groups, whom Hamas members reportedly saw as operatives, reactivated just before the massacre, and others issued protest and propaganda materials as the event unfolded in southern Israel.
After months of dormancy, Columbia SJP allegedly reactivated its Instagram account “three minutes before Hamas began its attack on October 7,” announcing a meeting and stating that supporters should “stay tuned.”
Eighty-three SJP chapters, including Columbia’s, signed and disseminated a statement in support of Hamas at midnight at the end of the day of the attack, leading the suit to insinuate that the content must have been drafted, reviewed, and signed by dozens of organizations “before and/or during the events of October 7 themselves.”