Posted on 02/02/2024 7:42:40 PM PST by george76
Dalal Saeb Iriqat said she would never forgive Israel for 'making us take their children and elderly as hostages'..
The Harvard Kennedy School is set to host a Palestinian professor who called Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians a “normal struggle for freedom,” and said she would never forgive Israel’s government for “making us take their children and elderly as hostages.”
Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a professor of diplomacy and conflict resolution at the Arab American University in Ramallah is set to speak at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center as part of its Middle East Dialogues series on March 7, 2024.
On Oct. 7, while terrorists were still slaughtering Israeli civilians in the Gaza envelope, Iriqat justified the attack.
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she condemned those issuing statements in support of Israel as its people were under attack.
“Statements of support to @netanyahu far right Israeli Gov can only fuel more state organized terror and more impunity to Israel’s continued #crimes & collective punishment against the Palestinian civilians,” she posted to X.
The next day, she seemingly aligned herself with Hamas and blamed Israel for the attack.
“We will never forgive the Israeli right wing extreme government for making us take their children and elderly as hostages,” she posted. “The Israeli public need to realize that their own government had caused all this bloodshed and they remain the ones responsible for this escalatin and losses of civilians lives
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Harvard University has been under mounting criticism for its response to Hamas’ massacre, including a lawsuit being filed by Jewish students that accuse the school of enabling antisemitism and selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment. The university parted ways with its former president, Claudine Gay, as she dealt with backlash over her public statements about combatting antisemitism on campus.
The professor’s radical pro-Hamas rhetoric has continued in the months since the attack, even promoting conspiracy theories that Israel was lying about what took place that day. On November 18, amid carrying out its weeks-long effort to identify bodies burned by Hamas terrorists, Iriqat denied that they were Israelis.
“The burnt bodies were Hamas militants,” she posted to Instagram.
She added that “Israeli helicopter fire may have killed ravers,” citing a Haaretz article that has widely been taken out of context and used to blame Israel for Hamas’ massacre of the partygoers at the NOVA festival. The Israel Police slammed Haaretz’s article, which claims an unnamed police source said an IDF helicopter “apparently harmed a few partygoers who were in the area,” reported the Times of Israel.
On December 31, she said the conflict isn’t Israel versus Hamas.
“This is not an Israel Hamas conflict,” she posted. “Israel is waging a series of #war_crimes against the Palestinians, this is not against Hamas, this is against the Palestinian right of self determination,” she wrote. “I urge everyone to refrain from the framing of Israel/Hamas or Israel/Gaza, this is Israel Vs Palestine!!”
It’d be a darned shame if someone put a bullet or 7 into this monster.
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Looks like replacing the Diversity-selection President with another woke drone didn’t change anything about how Harvard actually operates.
“clonk”
Upside down world.
Mossad should grab her, dress her in an IDF uniform, and dump her off in Gaza.
Hahvahd is not a school of higher learning, rather ot is a school for scandal. I wouldn’t send a cat there.
Seems a lot of females hate Israel. Female politicians, female professors, female celebrities. Dayum.....what’s up with that.
That's Babylon Bee level lunacy.
Harvard Hosts Radical Palestinian
Be surprised at the Sun for shining if this surprises you.
The Left hates.
In Israel, an Arab, a Muslim, whatever, can live, vote, start a business, raise a family. Israel is a bastion of freedom in the midst of the islamofascistnazis. The Left cannot stand it.
Prestigious to have him at Harvard before getting the inevitable Nobel Peace Prize.🏅
Biggest triumph since Biden accepting Father of the Year in his tux at the banquet and Ilhan Omar awarded Immigrant Pride Gold Medal. 🏅
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Islam does not produce scholars or professors of diplomacy. That is antithetical to the fundamental spirit of Islam. Islam means slaughter. At this very hour Muslims are butchering somebody somewhere in the world. It is irredeemably evil and cannot be reformed. To the kindhearted soul it can become a comfort and a rule for life, but that is among Muslims that have been Anglicized and Educated in the West. Islam is THE obstacle to peace in the Middle East, and everywhere else where it secures purchase. It must, and can be left behind by the millions who long to be truly free. Those who refuse to do so should be sent to live elsewhere. Americans believe in Liberty. Muslims believe in Jihad.
First off all and most obviously, it’s crazy to think anyone “made Hamas take hostages”.
Second and perhaps less obvious, this is a bastardization of Golda Meir’s quote which was “we can forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we cannot forgive them for causing us to kill theirs”.
Start closing some of these universities.
This is endorsed as "reasoning" by today's Harvard University.
Blaming Israel for their savagery is like blaming the dog for eating the cookies.
Harvard keeps going from strength to strength. Before very much longer a Harvard degree will have the same vale as an Oberlin associate’s two-year degree.
I’ll keep asking.
What is it going to take for American Jews to wake up?
“Harvard Kennedy School To Host Radical Palestinian Professor Who Blamed Israel For Hamas Terrorist Attack”
There’s plenty of blame to go around, and some does belong to Israel as they pretty much knew what was going on in Gaza and chose to ignore it, rather than deal with it and wipe Gaza off the map.
On the other hand, the ‘world community’, led by the US (as always), wasn’t about to let them deal with it.
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