Charles Gelman
Charles Gelman is a university lecturer who ripped down a poster raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and held hostage in Gaza. The December 2023 incident reportedly occurred in New York, New York.
Hamas kidnapped the civilians, including women and children, during a series of terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas executed the terror attacks on October 7, 2023.
The other Hamas war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape and beheadings. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.

As of December 11, 2023, Gelman was listed as a part-time faculty member at New York University (NYU) in the university’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (Gallatin School).
Gelman was slated to teach the “Psychoanalysis Beyond Freud” course in the spring of 2024. He has lectured at NYU’s Gallatin School since at least the spring of 2021.
Gelman received a Ph.D. from NYU in Comparative Literature in 2019.
