Did Cornell’s Dean OK a Campus Visit by ISIS & Hamas? [VIDEO]

Cornell’s assistant dean Joseph Scaffido finds himself in a jam after welcoming offers to bring Hamas and ISIS fighters to Cornell University while speaking to an undercover reporter. The jury is out on whether Scaffido understood what he was doing.

The video sting operation shows Cornell’s assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido, agreeing to everything suggested by an undercover reporter posing as a Moroccan student.

Scaffido casually endorses inviting an ISIS “freedom fighter’’ to conduct a “training camp” for students at the upstate Ithaca campus — bizarrely likening the activity to a sports camp.

Is it OK to bring a humanitarian pro-“Islamic State Iraq and Syria” group on campus, the undercover for conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas asks.

Sure, Scaffido says in the recorded March 16 meeting.

Scaffido doesn’t even blink an eye when the undercover asks about providing material support for terrorists — “care packages, whether it be food, water, electronics.”

How about supporting Hamas? No problem at all, Scaffido said.

In flow, he adds, “The university is not going to look at different groups and say, ‘You’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe them’ or something like that. I think it’s just the opposite. I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world”.

The undercover reporter asked if he can invite “a freedom fighter to come and do like a training camp for students.”

Scaffido responds, “You would be allowed to do something like that. It’s just like bringing in a coach, to do a training, a sports trainer or something,” the Cornell official said.

The US State Department includes both ISIS and Hamas on its list of terrorist organizations.

Cornell’s leadership has come out in support of Scaffido.

“Cornell fully supports the free exchange of ideas and does not review or control the political ideology of our students. We do not, of course, tolerate unlawful advocacy of violence, and the comment about training by ISIS freedom fighters does not reflect university policy,” said Joel Malina, Cornell’s vice president for university relations.

The Ithaca Voice, was one of the few newspapers to criticize the reporting of the incident which has been been picked up by major media outlets such as Fox News, Syracuse.com, CNYCentral.com, Capital New York and Mediaite.

In an editorial piece the paper said, the “Video about Cornell dean and ISIS is wildly misleading and dumb…we could point out the false and misleading narration, the interviewer’s lack of explicit reference to “ISIS,” the bizarre video editing. We could point out that the person being interviewed clearly doesn’t understand what he’s being asked, or that he’s merely doing his job as a university official.”