Monday, February 6, 2006
Is Khalil Shikaki a "terror professor?" There are probably a lot of people who fit that label better. It does sound like he spoke in places where there were a lot of nasty things said and he didn't have much trouble with it, and he was at the very least willing to go along to get along until going along finally meant outright breaking American law and now just does polling that isn't terribly reliable. If that description is accurate, then there are a lot of this kind of "terror professor" floating about. Not a comforting thought in any case.
Stephen Schwartz: A Terror Prof at Brandeis U
Why do these things happen? Are prominent Jews so afflicted by political correctness that they feel they have no choice but to open the way for their worst enemies to gain new prominence in America?
Let's be clear on some basic facts: Khalil Shikaki is the brother of Fathi Shikaki, a PIJ founder killed in 1995 on the island of Malta. And, while brothers can disagree, these siblings did not.
As shown by U.S. government evidence, Khalil Shikaki spoke at three annual conferences of the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP), a group the Justice Department describes as a front for PIJ. Shikaki appeared at its 1991 event, in Chicago, along with none other than the "blind sheik," Omar Abdul Rahman — infamous to all New Yorkers for his terrorist plotting and now serving a life sentence in prison.
All of the ICP conferences in which Shikaki participated featured bloodthirsty jihad rhetoric against Jews...
Update: An emailer sends this link to a lengthy report by The Investigative Project (linked at Campus Watch) into Shikaki's history: Khalil Shikaki and his Role in the Formation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Network in the United States. I don't have time to read it all right now, but a quick skim shows I might have been a bit too equivocal in my intro to Schwartz's piece. Brandeis got some 'splainin to do.
