November 8, 2023

The president of Queens College on Wednesday condemned social media posts by a Muslim student group that “deny the brutal actions and atrocities committed by Hamas” on Oct. 7.

“Queens College strongly denounces such obviously false and misleading posts that in no way represent the views of Queens College,” said Frank H. Wu, president of the college, which is part of the City University of New York. “This behavior is contrary to our community values.”

In an open letter, Wu added that while “we respect and uphold freedom of speech, this same right includes our condemnation of the denial included in these posts of the obvious atrocities that occurred on October 7. We will not hesitate to denounce what is so deeply hurtful, offensive, and damaging.”

Muslim student group alleges ‘Zionist false narrative’

The posts denying Hamas attacks appeared as Instagram stories earlier this week on the Queens College Muslim Students Association account. Instagram stories only remain visible for 24 hours, but others made screenshots of the posts. One post by the student group falsely claimed there is “ZERO evidence that Palestinians deliberately killed women and children. There is a great deal of video evidence that they deliberately *avoided* targeting women and children. There is nothing wrong with Palestinians taking prisoners of war in their struggle against the Zionist terror occupation. We cannot allow the Zionist false narrative (to) become the accepted history of...

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