NEW YORK — A New York City judge on Monday dismissed a case that a pro-Hamas professor filed against Columbia University, saying the university, its president and a pro-Israel professor had not discriminated against the instructor by condemning his rhetoric.

Mohamed Abdou was a visiting professor at Columbia in the spring term of 2024. His employment term ended in May 2024 and was not renewed.

Abdou had previously made pro-terror statements, saying days after the October 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel, “I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.”

US Rep. Elise Stefanik questioned former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik about the comments during a Congressional hearing.

Shafik said she shared Stefanik’s “repugnance” with the remarks and that Abdou would never work at the university again.

Abdou filed a lawsuit against Shafik and the university in August 2024, alleging that Shafik’s comments and issues on campus constituted defamation, discrimination based on his national origin and a hostile work environment.

Abdou identified in his lawsuit as a North African-Egyptian Muslim.

The defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint later that year, and in Monday’s court filing, the judge, Kathleen Waterman-Marshall, granted the dismissal.

Abdou had claimed that Shafik had falsely labeled him an “antisemite”........

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