Tarek Bazrouk, a self-professed “Jew hater” who joined in anti-Israel protests on the Columbia University campus and has been indicted on federal hate crimes charges, allegedly had a direct link to the Hamas al-Qassam Brigades militant group, according to federal documents.

Bazrouk, 20, was “a member of a chat group that received regular updates” from the official spokesperson for the brigades, Abu Obeida, the documents state, marking the first evidence of a protester getting information directly from Hamas and taking action, reports The New York Post Wednesday.

He was not a student at Columbia and is an American citizen, born and raised in New York.

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