The president of New York University’s bar association sent an incendiary pro-Hamas message to the school’s law students Tuesday — cheering the terror attack on civilians and blaming Israel for the bloodshed.
“I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression towards liberation and self-determination,” wrote Ryna Workman, who identifies as non-binary.
“Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life. This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary,” their post continued.
“I will not condemn Palestinian resistance,” they went on to write, instead condemning the “violence of… apartheid, military occupation, the United States military industrial complex and obfuscating genocide as a ‘complex issue,'” among other things.
Blowback to the post was swift on Manhattan’s Greenwich Village campus Tuesday afternoon.
“It just struck me as inappropriate, especially considering the death count and the fact that so many Israelis are being held captive,” said a freshman who declined to tell The Post his name.
“You’re free to have an opinion, but to voice it so publicly and so unequivocally without even acknowledging that a literal massacre took place seems, at the very least, insensitive,” he continued.
“There are a lot of students at NYU who I’m sure have family in Israel, and whatever you feel about Israeli injustices towards Palestinians, is now really the time to issue a f–k you to people who are worried sick about their relatives?”
A sophomore who also wished to remain anonymous said it seemed like Workman was “using her [sic] elected leadership position as a soapbox to spew her opinions about things that have absolutely nothing to do with NYU law school.
“Her views certainly don’t represent those of the NYU student body — not mine, anyway. There’s no interpretation of the events that occurred Saturday morning outside of that terrorists carried out a planned attack on civilians and started a war. There’s no justification for it. It’s shameful, and embarrassing that I have to be associated with it.”
The university released a statement saying the message did not reflect its views.
“Acts of terrorism are immoral. The indiscriminate killing of civilians and hostage-taking, including children and the elderly, is reprehensible. Blaming victims of terrorism for their own deaths is wrong,” spokesman John Beckman said.
Workman did not immediately respond to a request for comment or an interview. In a late afternoon X post, they wrote they would be “hosting an anti-Israel(Jewish) party in my pants later tonight.”
The NYU newsletter was just the latest instance of student leaders and organizations nationwide that have thrown their support behind Hamas terrorists’ weekend massacre which killed more than one thousand Israelis, according to the nation’s US embassy.
The group Students for Justice in Palestine is calling on all its chapters to join a “mass mobilization’’ on Thursday to mark the “historic win for Palestinian Resistance.’’
A poster promoting the event at California State University’s La Fuerza Student Association featuring a paraglider, which were used by insurgents to launch their horrific surprise terror attacks on residential areas and kibbutzs, where they fired on civilians at random.
“We will be rallying and marching in support of the Palestinian liberation and against Zionist occupation in Palestine,” the group said.
The SPJ groups at Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Butler University, University of Louisville, University of Binghamton and the University of Virginia were planning on participating in the event, with off-campus events planned at Michigan State University and University of Mary Washington, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
At Harvard University, more than 30 student groups said they held Israel “entirely responsible” for the attacks carried out by Hamas, which is recognized as a terror group by the US and other western powers for its murders and kidnappings.
The groups claimed the attacks “did not happen in a vacuum,” “open-air prison for over two decades,” referring to the Israeli blockade in the disputed territory that became permanent after Hamas’ 2006 rise to power.
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” they wrote in a letter.
“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame,” the groups claim.
Former Harvard president Larry Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration, said he had never been more “disillusioned and alienated” from the university.
“The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported student groups’ statement blaming Israel solely, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel,” Summers wrote on X.
“Instead, Harvard is being defined by the morally unconscionable statement apparently coming from two dozen student groups blaming all the violence on Israel.”
President Claudine Gay later issued a statement condemning “the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,” and added that the student groups do not speak for the university.