Columbia University professor Joseph Massad will teach a spring semester class on the history of Zionism, the movement for Jewish self-determination, despite celebrating the October 7 attack and denying a Jewish link to Israel.

Massad, who is a “Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies professor,” will teach a class called “Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies,” which was last offered 25 years ago. The day after the October 7, 2023, terror attack by Hamas, he posted an article on the radical anti-Israel website “Electronic Intifada” in which he praised the attacks, describing them as “stunning” and as a “victory for the resistance,” hailing the “jubilation and awe” of the Arab world.