Duke University Will Host Pro-Terror Conference
Tomorrow, Duke University will host the conference of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, an alliance of Western moonbats with radical Palestinian jihadists: Duke to host anti-Israel conference.
Duke University is hosting a Palestinian solidarity conference Friday organized by a group that refuses to condemn terrorism, urges the flooding of Israel with millions of Palestinian refugees to dissolve its Jewish character, and calls on the public to divest from Israel.
The Palestinian Solidarity Movement, allied with the controversial International Solidarity Movement, an organization that openly supports Hamas and calls for the destruction of Israel, is holding its conference to “put pressure on the Israeli government, partly by urging universities to sell their stock in companies with military ties to Israel.”
Attendees of the three-day event will listen to speakers explain their strategies for taking action against Israel, including lectures entitled, “Divestment: The Weapon of the Global Fight for Justice” and a talk on “How to effectively use the media and improved public relations to advance the Palestinian cause.”
The conference will be PSM’s fourth national gathering, following previous events at Berkeley, Michigan and Ohio State. Some PSM critics have charged those earlier events were hotbeds of anti-Semitism, with some attendees shouting, “Kill the Jews,” and “Death to Israel!”
Rann Bar-On, a graduate student who has identified himself as an International Solidarity Movement activist and is a member of the campus group sponsoring the PSM conference, said he thinks the event will foster a useful dialogue on campus.
Bar-On said PSM supports nonviolent action on behalf of the Palestinian people, but neither he nor the group would sign a statement prepared by Jewish groups condemning terrorism.
“We don’t see it as very useful for us as a solidarity movement to condemn violence,” Bar-On told The Herald-Sun last month.