An anti-Israel student group at Georgetown University's Law School will host an event on campus discovered by members of a Palestinian terrorist group convicted of his role in the murder of a 17-year-old Israeli girl. I was planning.
However, the event was postponed by the university. Now, Jewish legal advocacy groups are calling on law schools to formally cancel the event.
The campus flyer was taken with images taken by law students in Georgetown and shared with Fox News Digital, showing that they held an event with Ribhi Karajah on February 11th.
“An evening with Palestinian prisoner, student activist and former political prisoner Libhi Karaja,” Flyer added that Karaja will tell students about “arrest, detention and torture in Israel's military justice system.”
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Images provided to Fox News of Flyers were hung around the Georgetown law school campus promoting a controversial event with Ribhi Karajah. (Low Fair Project)
Karaja, a US citizen, was arrested along with two members of a US-designated terrorist group, along with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and spent three and a half years in his involvement in the roadside bombing in August 2019. I spent time in prison. Young Israel, named Rina Shnerb, suffered serious injuries to her father and brother. Karajh was informed of intimate details of the attack by an associate within the PFLP, and later admitted that he did nothing to stop it in a legal agreement.
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Karaja also spent several months in an Israeli prison in 2017 attending Birzeit University, known to be a breeding ground for terrorist sympathizers. According to Jewish activist Adal Rubin, director of the Mobilization of Jewish Hate, Karajah promotes PFLP leadership on social media and is being spoken at events hosted by PFLP.
The student group cited the bad weather on social media as a reason to postpone the event in Karaja, but two days before the event, the law school told the student group to postpone the event, saying that the university had “relevant to the event” A thorough investigation into serious safety and security concerns that have arisen.
The Lawfare Project, a legal advocacy group that currently supports anti-Semitism students on campus, is calling on universities to cancel their events. In a letter sent Wednesday to the dean and vice dean of the Georgetown law school, the Law Project cited federal law providing important assistance to terrorism.
Georgetown University with an inset of a Palestinian terrorist. (Getty Images)
“Under 18USC §2339A, the term “critical support or resource” includes, but is not limited to, expert advice or assistance, accommodation, training, personnel, and services. US Supreme Court, Holder v. The Humanitarian Law Project (2010) holds that even seemingly benign support, such as supporting a broad interpretation of the law and providing a platform for FTO members, could further violate terrorism and violate federal law. I did it,” School, William Trenore.
“By allowing Karaja to speak on campus, Gark risks providing material support to known terrorist operatives.…The fact that this event was organized by a recognized student group is responsible for the fact that We will not exempt from universities.”
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The Legal Project also asks Georgetown to clarify whether law school administrators are aware of the partnership with PFLP in Karaja before approving the event. As of Thursday, the group told Fox News Digital that it had not responded from the university.
Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC (Getty Images)
During Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent trip to the country's capital, he met with US university students and recent graduates who were before the rise in anti-Israel sentiment on university campuses. During discussions with these students, Netanyahu spoke about the event by Julia Wax Vax Vanderwiel, founder and president of Georgetown Law Zionist.
“[Netanyahu] There was a very visceral response to my speech,” she told Jewish insiders. [about the upcoming event]. He said he knew exactly who [the murdered 17-year-old] teeth. He met his family. He said we need to stay strong. He really wanted to listen, take care of him and do something. ”
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Vanderweil added in a comment to a Jewish insider, who said that Karaja's “present on our campus threatens the safety of all Jewish students.”
