A Cornell University professor said at a protest for Palestine that the brutal Hamas terrorist attacks were “exhilarating” and “energizing”.

Here’s the video:

Professor Russell Rickford said: “It was exhilarating. It was exhilarating, it was energizing. And if it weren’t exhilarating, by this challenge to the monopoly of violence by this shifting of the balance of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated!”

Here’s more from from Rickford’s despicable speech by the New York Post:

A Cornell University professor was caught on camera telling students Hamas’ terror attack on Israel — which has left more than 1,400 dead — was “exhilarating” and “energizing.”

The remarks were made at a pro-Palestine protest by Russell Rickford, an associate professor of history at the top-tier Ithaca, New York, school and posted online Sunday by a student who called them “shameful.”

The footage of Rickford’s impassioned speech was also shared with The Post by two other tipsters. They declined to say when and where exactly the rally took place, but both said they were shocked by the brazen remarks.

The prof said the coordinated Oct. 7 attack, in which militants broke through concrete walls and paraglided into Israel to indiscriminately murdered civilians “shifted the balance of politics and punctured the illusion of invincibility” of Israel, which has imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip since terrorist group Hamas seized power there in 2007.

“That’s what they’ve done. You don’t have to be a Hamas supporter to recognize it,” he said.

Rickford then claimed many Palestinians who were born into violence and oppression were “able to breathe for the first time in years” in the hours after the brutal massacre.

“It was exhilarating. It was exhilarating, it was energizing. And if they weren’t exhilarated by this challenge to the monopoly of violence, the shifting of the violence of power, then they would not be human. I was exhilarated,” Russell said to a smattering of approval from students, the video showed.

The crowd then chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a common rallying call for pro-Palestinian advocates to eradicate Israel and establish their own state. The phrase is deemed antisemeitc by the American Jewish Committee.

Rickford did not respond to an interview request from The Post and Cornell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This will probably earn Rickford a promotion at Cornell, but I hope it ends his career as a professor of history. He has no business being in the classroom teaching history with this attitude on the bloodthirsty rampage by Muslim terrorists of Jewish men, women and children. Someone buy him a one way ticket to Gaza and let’s see how exhilarated he feels then.