Ithaca, NY – Russell Rickford, a Cornell University professor told a crowd of students that the Hamas terror attacks against Israeli citizens were “exhilarating” and “energizing.”
“It was exhilarating,” Russell Rickford, a history professor at Cornell, told a crowd during a pro-Palestinian protest on Sunday. “It was energizing. And if they weren’t exhilarated by this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated.”
According to his X profile, Rickford is a “historian of the Black radical tradition” and has supported defunding the police.
The crowd at the protest began shouting the anti-Semitic chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” according to the Daily Mail.
