Columbia U. protester linked directly to Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades: DOJ says

"This is the finger I use for my nose," Bazrouk bragged

In a shocking revelation, The New York Post has exposed the Naziesque ties of Tarek Bazrouk, a vile "Jew-hater" who wreaked havoc on Columbia University’s campus with anti-Israel protests and allegedly plotted to set a Jewish student ablaze. 

This scumcrumpet, now facing federal hate crime charges, was reportedly linked directly to Hamas’ murderous al-Qassam Brigades, receiving regular updates from their mouthpiece, Abu Obeida, according to federal documents. 

This is the smoking gun proving Hamas’ tentacles slither onto American soil, manipulating agitators like Bazrouk to sow chaos and hatred against Jews.

Bazrouk, a 20-year-old New Yorker with no ties to Columbia as a student, strutted around campus sporting the green headband of Hamas terrorists, bragging to his pinhead pals about his overseas relatives in the terror group, prosecutors allege. His phone was a cesspool of pro-Hamasshole and pro-Hezbollah propaganda, glorifying the scum who’ve slaughtered thousands of Jews and Israelis, attacked Americans, and openly vow to annihilate both Israel and the U.S. 

Among the filth was a photo of the now dead Yahya Sinwar, the al-Qassam mastermind behind the barbaric Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, and a meme drooling over the brigades: “By God I would not trade the Al Qassam Brigades for the world and everything in it. May God be pleased with them and allow them to break the wicked enemy through him.”

This Nazi’s hatred ran deep. 

Court documents reveal texts where he proudly called himself a “Jew hater,” branded Jews “worthless,” begged “Allah” to “get us rid of [Jews],” and hurled slurs like “F**king Jew” at an acquaintance. He even told a friend to “slap that bitch” over a woman with an Israeli sticker on her laptop. 

During Columbia’s April 2024 protests, Bazrouk allegedly texted a buddy about lighting a flare and wanting to burn someone, only stopping because “too many” people were around, otherwise he “would’ve hurted [sic] them.” His depravity, and his lack of proper English, knew no bounds. He is accused of punching Jewish student Jonathan Lederer in the face while ranting about Hitler and Nazis, stealing his brother’s flag in a deranged outburst near campus on Dec. 9, 2024.

But Bazrouk’s alleged crime spree didn’t stop there. 

He’s charged with three hate crimes for attacks on Jews, including lunging at a group with Israeli flags at a Gaza war protest outside the New York Stock Exchange on April 15, 2024, and kicking a Jewish student in the stomach as cops dragged him away. On Jan. 6, 2025, he allegedly punched another protester draped in an Israeli flag near Union Square, his face masked with a keffiyeh. Despite arrests, this predator “remained undeterred,” returning to “using violence to target Jews in New York City,” said US Attorney Jay Clayton.

When feds searched Bazrouk’s Manhattan home, where he lived with family, they uncovered a replica firearm, spent shell casings, brass knuckles, a switchblade, a hunting knife, and a staggering $750,000 in cash stashed in a safe. His defense claims the money came from his job at a Connecticut smoke shop, but this was no innocent clerk. 

Bazrouk was arrested there in December 2024 for “operating a drug factory” with $25,000 in marijuana products.

Columbia, plagued by masked anti-Israel agitators in 2024, was forced to call in the NYPD to clear out these radical cretins, who even illegally seized a university building. NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban nailed it, pointing to “professional outside agitators” like Bazrouk fueling the chaos. 

The university distanced itself, stating it has “no record of Bazrouk being on campus” and “strongly condemns anti-Semitism,” emphasizing he’s not affiliated with them. Yet, Hamas’ shadow looms large. A lawsuit reveals the terror group taunted Israeli hostage Shlomi Ziv with images of Columbia’s anti-Semitic protests, boasting of operatives on U.S. campuses.

Bazrouk’s alleged trips to the West Bank and Jordan in late 2024 raise seriously chilling questions about his activities there. Prosecutors, building their case, say he’s a “danger to the community” with his “support for terrorist groups,” “avowed hatred of Jews,” and arsenal of weapons. 

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He has been denied bail, he’s been caged since May 7, 2025, facing only up to 30 years if convicted. His lawyer, Andrew Dalack, weakly denies any Hamas connection but offers no real defense, mainly due to the fact that the evidence is overwhelming.

This isn’t an isolated case. Jewish groups and the Anti-Defamation League’s Oren Segal warn that Hamas and Hezbollah’s influence festers in U.S. protests, with their flags waved shamelessly. Bazrouk’s actions expose the ugly truth: anti-Israel campus chaos isn’t just misguided activism, it’s a front for terror-backed hatred targeting Jews and Israel’s right to exist.

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Cyber attacks or clusterfudges?

Trading on the NY Stock Exchange was stopped this morning around 11:30 a.m.  for about 2 hours. An internal technical problem was detected and it was learned that other cyber technical problems simultaneously occurred in other areas. Other exchanges were not effected.

Was this a cyber attack or did a bunch of stockbrokers forget to pay the monthly internet fee to Verizon? The matter is being investigated, but one thing for certain is that a glitch like this is not at all typical.

Soon after the outage, the NYSE tweeted that the glitch was internal and not a breach, but the tweet may have actually emanated from ISIS or China, nobody is certain and nobody is taking responsibility for the tweet. Just kidding.

What they tweeted was: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach. We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to"-- then they ran out over the 140 character limit Twitter allows for each tweet. What they had to add was: "avoid problems arising from our technical issue."

It is believed that the person who tweeted the first part of the tweet is the same person who is the IT responsible for maintaining the NYSE.  

Other computer glitches that coincided with this one included United Airlines flights. They had to ground their jets when computers told the pilots to fly into large buildings in major cities. Another glitch occurred with the Wall Street Journal after a reporter was about to email an exclusive "gotcha" interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (pronounced "Jay" but spelling was never a strong point in the Johnson family) said of the curious simultaneous occurrences, "It appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at United and at the stock exchange were not the  result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the Wall Street Journal at this point except that their system is back up again as is the United Airline system."

He too ran out of tweet characters but wisely did it in two tweets.


Marie Harf tweeted: "Hey Jeh, what's nefarious?"

President Obama has been briefed by the NYSE and he blamed the problem on George W. Bush for not regulating NYSE more ambitiously.

The FBI has offered its help regarding the NYSE problem but they agree with Jeh Johnson that the situation does not appear to be nafarious. 

Marie Harf had not comment.



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NYSE is not NICE

The NYSE closed down at -512.76 and job growth is as anemic as a vampire victim. Obama has no growth plan and even CNN is pointing this out, which is really amazing since they have done everything but shined his shoes since he took office. Well, okay, that would be MSNBC, but CNN does go to the extent of generally overlooking his lack of leadership (which more and more people are referring to as "leading from behind"), and they seem perturbed that he is not being a real leader. The question is, does Obama have a grand plan--let's call it a political jihad--in which he wants the economy to fail in order to push forth his socialist agenda? It certainly is possible.

For political socialism to take root, the economy has to fail, particularly the large corporate structure so that the government can step in (a la GM and Wall Street), and bail them out; and in the case of GM, to take them over. Have you noticed, however, that whenever big government tries to play at business management, they invariably fail? This is due to the lack of incentives created by competition between like companies. It's really quite simple but the American public always gets amnesia when it comes to the outcome of socialist or communist regimes. 

So if the grand jihad is to put the economy in the dumper, Obama is laughing behind our backs. Kind of like he must have laughed when he used non-union workers to handle his fund-raising birthday party. My theory is that he doesn't really have a birthday--he is not human but a creation of a Bilderberg-like secret society, probably religious in nature, probably not the least bit similar to western culture. 

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