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Cornell prof who lauded Hamas attack as ‘exhilarating’ is back at school after dodging punishment
New York Post ^ | Sep. 15, 2024 | Carl Campanile

Posted on 09/17/2024 3:05:13 PM PDT by george76

The radical Cornell University prof who lauded the Hamas terror attack on Israel as “exhilarating” and “energizing” dodged any punishment and is now back teaching at the upstate Ivy League school.

Shamed history Professor Russell Rickford was out for the past year on “voluntary leave” after widespread public outcry when he was recorded at an off-campus anti-Israel rally cheering Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis.

““It was exhilarating, it was energizing ….I was exhilarated,” Rickford said at the time — before apologizing for applauding the mass murder of innocent civilians.

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Rickford is now teaching at least two courses at Cornell this semester — African Americans Vision of America and Socialism in America — and a seminar.

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Cornell confirmed in a statement to The Post on Sunday that the university did not discipline Rickord for his hateful remarks.

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Cornell, though a private university, receives $127 million in state funding to help fund the four State University of New York schools it operates

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Antisemitism has been so widespread on New York’s college campuses since the Mideast war began that Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the state’s former chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, to conduct an independent review of the situation. His report is expected to be released within weeks.

As for Rickford, upstate Rep. Claudia Tenney said she is sending a letter to Cornell interim President Michael Kotlikoff to protest his return.

“I am deeply disgusted by Cornell’s decision to continue employing Mr. Rickford after his horrific statements that celebrated the murder of innocent people and incited violence,”

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The protests aren’t going away. Anti-Israel vandals defaced a campus building on the first day of classes last month.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 09/17/2024 3:05:13 PM PDT by george76
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Send him to a Gaza tunnel.

Total ‘tard.


2 posted on 09/17/2024 3:07:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: george76

High above Cayuga’s waters, there’s an awefull smell…


3 posted on 09/17/2024 3:08:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Fropressor Russell Whackjob.


5 posted on 09/17/2024 3:09:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Does he have a pager?


6 posted on 09/17/2024 3:12:00 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: george76

As expected. Just another day in the City of Evil.


7 posted on 09/17/2024 3:13:02 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Let’s give him a free pager. I picked it up in Lebanon cheap.


8 posted on 09/17/2024 3:20:00 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Darksheare

We can hope.


9 posted on 09/17/2024 3:20:14 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: george76

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Professor+Russell+Rickford


10 posted on 09/17/2024 3:25:12 PM PDT by leopud
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To: george76

Come on, Mossad. Do your job.


11 posted on 09/17/2024 3:31:02 PM PDT by Salvavida
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Prof Rickford likes to be exhilarated? OK, next September 11 we can hurl him off the top floor of the new World Trade Center. It would be a way of commentating those who were forced to leap to their deaths from the burning twin towers in 2021.

12 posted on 09/17/2024 3:32:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
2021 2001

13 posted on 09/17/2024 3:32:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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2001 is becoming a while back.

Nothing to forget.

Too bad my memory is unlikely to go beyond 100 years…


14 posted on 09/17/2024 3:38:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: george76

Send Rickford a pager. If not that then send him a Candy Gram for Mongo.


15 posted on 09/17/2024 3:51:09 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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Something tells me he is probably staying away from phones, pagers and other technology..../s


16 posted on 09/17/2024 3:51:38 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Let him ruminate.


17 posted on 09/17/2024 4:01:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: george76

Russell Rickford
@RickfordRussell

Historian of the Black radical tradition. Author of We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power & the Radical Imagination.

https://x.com/rickfordrussell

The man is a very bright person, but a atheistic Marxist racist.
It’s always a shame to see such intellect used for evil.

Example:

A Time of Monsters: Corporate Liberalism and The Rise of Trumpism

By Russell Rickford November 25, 2016
https://www.aaihs.org/a-time-of-monsters-corporate-liberalism-and-the-rise-of-trumpism/


18 posted on 09/17/2024 4:07:46 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Let’s perform a science experiment. Let’s see what falls faster from the new World Trade Center—a dumbbell named Rickford or a set of 2 metal balls attached by a bar running between them. How utterly despicable that a state funded institution of higher learning has a position open to employ such a morally bankrupt-—set on ZERO-—’tard to instruct young minds.


19 posted on 09/17/2024 4:09:48 PM PDT by EinNYC
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You how sometimes in school or at work you run across the biggest jackass you've ever met? Someone who is so unbelievably horrible the only way to describe him is that he is a monster? Well that's what an entire political party has become — monsters.
20 posted on 09/17/2024 4:31:57 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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