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12/29/2004 Archived Entry: "The Intifada Comes to Duke"

Posted by steve @ 06:58 PM EST [Link]

DUKE IS A LONG WAY FROM PALESTINE: But that doesn't mean it can't host the annual conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, an umbrella for Canadian and U.S. groups. Eric Adler has emailed to tell me that he's co-authored a story that will appear in the January issue of Commentary on the PSM conference that took place at Duke University in October.

One keynote speech of the PSM’s exercise in “education through dialogue” was delivered by Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Yale professor of genetics, who presented a short history of what he portrayed as the virulent Zionist “disease.” There was also a lecture by the PLO legal adviser Diana Buttu, a polished speaker whose theme was that Palestinians under Israeli occupation have suffered a fate worse than blacks under apartheid in South Africa, and that Israel is today “the greatest abuser of human rights” in the world. Nasser Abufarha, a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, spoke of Israel’s “racist ambitions” and defended the terrorist activities of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in combating Zionist “aggression.” Brian Avery, an activist for ISM, explained that both George W. Bush and John Kerry were “on auction to the Jewish lobby.”

Them Jews sure are busy, aren't they? At any rate, check out Adler and Jack Langer's story as it's well worth reading.

Read on.