Protesters on campus promote ‘Columbia Intifada’ newspaper praising Hamas

On the occasion of the second anniversary of October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on IsraelProtesters gathered outside the gates of Columbia University, chanting “From the river to the sea” and distributing a “Columbia Intifada” newspaper that appeared to justify the massacre of Israeli citizens that occurred during the Nova music festival.

The October 7, 2025 edition of the newspaper, under the front-page article titled “Hamas: A Brief History,” states that the publication marks “two years ago Gazans tore down the fences of their modern concentration camp. »

The “Columbia Intifada” emerged as a student-produced newspaper distributed by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), although the university quickly condemned it late last year, saying the newspaper’s message of promoting or glorifying violence violated Columbia University policy.

On the second anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, demonstrators gathered outside Columbia University, a center of student protest against the war since 2023. (Fox News)

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At the top of the document it reads: “Disclaimer: Columbia Intifada is not affiliated with the terrorist, imperialist, Nazi-Zionist, colonizing, gentrifying, dirty, genocidal, war profiteering ‘institution’ known as Columbia University.” In the upper right corner it reads: “Columbia University (Students for Justice in Palestine) SJP.”

Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended in November 2023. The New York Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal sued the university in March 2024, alleging that the university had violated the group’s rights, but the New York Supreme Court sided with Columbia in November 2024, a decision that has kept the group suspended to this day. Fox News Digital has learned the organization does not receive funding from the school and cannot reserve space on campus.

“Invoking the Columbia name to glorify violence is a violation of our values,” a Columbia spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “We are aware of the materials that were distributed off campus yesterday and are investigating the matter.”

“Discrimination and the promotion of violence or terrorism are unacceptable and contrary to what our community stands for,” the spokesperson added.

Despite the suspension, the organization’s social networks remain active and it is unclear who currently writes and publishes the newspaper.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine but did not receive a response.

The Columbia Intifada newspaper was distributed at an event at the Ivy League university to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. (Fox News)

The “Columbia Intifada” newspaper is roughly the same format as a newspaper that one can buy from any print publication. The four-page document features multiple layers of color, anonymous authors and branding similar to that of the university’s “Columbia Spectator.”

In addition to newspapers handed out at the entrance to the university campus, stickers promoting the protest were thrown out of windows on the school grounds to nearby protesters and spectators.

Most of the hundred or so protesters were wrapped in clothing so that only their eyes were visible. The apparent organizers of the protest also offered free masks to people entering through a metal police barrier designed to prevent an escalation of the conflict.

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Chants of “Free Palestine” on 116th Street and Broadway were met with a few dissenting and pro-Israeli voices that emerged about a half hour after the protest began.

People attend a vigil and protest for Palestine in front of Columbia University on October 7, 2025, in New York. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

The first speaker in the group of protesters ordered the crowd not to speak to the press and even made protesters after her audibly repeat that there would be no communication with the press.

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The speaker then added that any press requests could be made to people wearing gray armbands, but when Fox News Digital asked to speak to such people multiple times, the group never brought anyone in.

“The Columbia SJP is not only the scum of the earth, they are nauseatingly anti-Semitic, completely wrong on the facts, and that is one of the main reasons they and their ilk have been thrown into the dustbin of political irrelevance,” Sam Markstein, a spokesperson for the Republican Jewish Coalition, told Fox News Digital. “If they are so proud of their words, why not put their name to the slander they are putting forward?

“The answer is that they are losers and stupid cowards.”

Preston Mizell is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on X @MizellPreston