Harvard University will host a radical Hamas-loving professor who defended the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.
“The Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves, the right to live with dignity and freedom. “I’m surprised that the world is shocked!” Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a professor at the Arab American University in Ramallah, said in a post on the day of the massacre.
“Today is just a normal human fight for #Freedom.”
“We will never forgive the far-right Israeli government for forcing us to take its children and elderly hostage,” he added a day after his comrade’s invasion, which included mass rapes and beheadings of children.
“The Israeli public must realize that their own government has caused all this bloodshed and that they remain responsible for this escalation.” [sic] and loss of civilian life.
Iriqat is scheduled to speak as part of a “Middle East Dialogue” at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center on March 7, where she will be introduced as an expert on “diplomacy and conflict resolution.”
Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a professor at the Arab American University in Ramallah, called the Oct. 7 attacks that left 1,200 dead “normal human struggle.” DalalIRIQAT/X Radical Palestinian professor Dalal Saeb Iriqat openly calls Hamas terrorism “totally normal human struggle.” DalalIRIQAT / Getty Images Harvard has been dogged for months by accusations of institutional anti-Semitism. REUTERS
The militant academic’s visit comes at an awkward time for Harvard after former president Claudine Gay was forced to resign after being unwilling to publicly declare that calls for genocide against Jews would go against the university’s code of conduct. school. She is also a confirmed plagiarist, something Harvard tried to cover up for months.
The Harvard campus has been rocked by cases of anti-Semitism, so much so that a new working group on anti-Semitism was created to study the issue.
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That panel also became embroiled in controversy after earlier comments by its chair, Jewish history professor Derek Penslar, became public.
“Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinians of their land and the oppression of those who remain have made it one of the least loved countries on the planet,” Penslar wrote in his book “Zionism: An Emotional State,” adding in another place that “Jewish culture was permeated with fantasies (and occasionally acts) of revenge against Christians.”
A poll taken after the massacre found that 57% of American Muslims believed the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 in Israel were “justified.”
Another recent poll found that a majority of Americans ages 18 to 24 believe Israel should be “terminated and handed over to Hamas.”
Harvard representatives did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
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