At 7pm tonight, in Science Hall, the University of Wisconsin will welcome a speech by a known terrorism advocate: Mads Gilbert. This shameful event is yet another black mark on a campus known for widespread anti-American and anti-semitic sympathies.

For those who do not know Mads Gilbert, he is a medical doctor who is closely aligned with the Norwegian Red Party and Workers’ Communist Party, which openly expressed support for both Stalin and Pol Pot.

Mads Gilbert famously supported the 9/11 attacks, telling the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet “If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, then there is also a moral right to attack the United States”. When the shocked reporter asked if that meant that he supported terrorist attacks against the United States, he responded: “Terror is a bad weapon, but the answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned.”

Mads Gilbert has more recently been in the news for his work on behalf of the terrorist group Hamas....