A self-proclaimed “Jew-hater” who protested Israel on Columbia University’s campus had a direct tie to Hamas’s deadly al-Qassam Brigades militant group, The New York Post reported.
Tarek Bazrouk, who is awaiting trial and stands accused of three federal hate crimes against Jewish people, was “a member of a chat group that received regular updates from Abu Obeida,” the official spokesperson for the brigades, the report states, citing allegations in federal documents.
“The accusation is the first evidence of an agitator receiving information directly from Hamas and taking action during protests on the university campus,” according to the report.
Twenty-year-old Bazrouk, who was not a student at the university, also bragged to friends about having relatives overseas who were members of the terror group
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