Posted on 04/18/2025 5:24:05 PM PDT by T Ruth
On April 7, 2025, Bashar Masri ... long-time member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School Dean’s Council, quietly resigned. His departure came just hours after a federal lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C., by nearly 200 American plaintiffs — among them survivors and relatives of those murdered in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. They allege that Masri and his companies played a direct role in enabling the terror group’s tunnel and rocket infrastructure in Gaza.
The complaint — detailed and damning — accuses Masri’s firms, PADICO and Massar International, of knowingly facilitating Hamas’s military build-up. According to the suit, facilities developed by Masri — including the Gaza Industrial Estate and two luxury hotels — were used to conceal terror tunnels and rocket launch platforms. These developments, in part funded by Western aid, allegedly served as camouflage for the very operations that culminated in the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Over 1,200 people were killed, including more than 40 U.S. citizens.
Masri, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has long been celebrated as a model of Palestinian entrepreneurship. ...
What now emerges is a deeply unsettling counter-narrative: that behind the façades of progress and statecraft may have been the concealed infrastructure of war.
Masri denies the allegations. ... If even a portion of the plaintiffs’ claims are substantiated, then Harvard ... must contend with the possibility that they conferred prestige and legitimacy on a man allegedly complicit in building the architecture of terrorism.
This is ... the consequence of a culture that has, for years, opened its doors wide to foreign capital while asking few questions about provenance or intent. From 2013 to 2021, more than $13 billion in foreign funds poured into U.S. universities — much of it undocumented, in clear violation of federal disclosure laws.
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Palestinian? The name “Masri” literally means “Egyptian” in arabic. He’s Egyptian.
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Spain needs to resurrect the Reconquista.
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Mexico has been practicing Reconquista for a long time and it’s working. For instance, about 45% of California is Hispanic.
“Palestinian? The name “Masri” literally means “Egyptian” in arabic. He’s Egyptian.”
He is Palestinian.
“Palestinian” is a political fiction.
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““Palestinian” is a political fiction.”
You are referring to the state of Palestine.
Palestinia best describes his region.
metaphors are nice, but there’s a cost when identifying articles of interest
The headline is click-bait. The tunnels are not under our universities!
can you even imagine what a precious display would be brought forth if all this was thoroughly investigated, exposed, and Harvard is takin to a pile of rubble, and all involved arrested and jailed??
THAT could be a showcase turning point in a new direction of humanity...
(Shakes head and wakes up!!...) I had this strangest Dream!!
“Palestinians” are Egyptians, Syrians, Libyans, Moroccans, etc.
Many “palistinians” are Egyptians. They as a people are mongrels of uncertain heritage.
With foreign-born judges
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Stop right there. The current administration should be doing everything in its power to end the eligibility of foreign-born persons for any appointed or elected position in any government agency in the United States.
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