Mohamed Abdou urges end of US empire and praises 7 October attacks

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 3

At a Virginia Tech stop in Blacksburg, clips showed the former Columbia professor urging students to target defence-industry supply chains and “start soon.”
He called attendees a “branch of the resistance” and “mujahideen”, praised the Hamas-led assault as the “blessed day of Al-Aqsa Flood”, and denounced the US as a “monster”.
Virginia Tech said the event was neither university-sponsored nor registered. Abdou was barred from teaching at Columbia last year after backing Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.

What factors led universities to repeatedly host Abdou’s unsanctioned events despite his openly militant rhetoric?

How real are the threats Abdou describes to America's defense industry, and what weaknesses are experts most worried about today?

Could Abdou’s calls to disrupt supply chains inspire actual actions, and how are authorities preparing for this possibility?