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Friday, February 10, 2006

Group Condoning Terrorism to Hold Conference at Georgetown

Here's a very good primer on the upcoming Palestine Solidarity Movement conference at Georgetown (someone needs to fix the giant link in the footnotes, though -- it's screwing up the page margins) (link via the comments and Vital Perspective):

Group Condoning Terrorism to Hold Conference at Georgetown - Palestine Solidarity Movement claims to be against violence, but the facts show otherwise

A group that has refused to condemn terrorism and advocates boycotting Israel plans to hold its annual conference in Washington this month because it is the city where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. led his 1963 march to champion equality for all human beings. But, in stark contrast to Dr. King's own beliefs, one of the speakers at the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) event has condoned violence as a means of resistance and has a history of trying to stifle academic freedom while another has voiced anti-Semitic sentiments.

The conference is to be held at Georgetown University Feb. 17-19 under the guise of freedom of speech, but the Palestine Solidarity Movement's agenda violates Georgetown's own policy guidelines for campus events. Those guidelines require "politically sensitive activities" to be sponsored by the University and not to "conflict with Georgetown University standards as a Roman Catholic institution [1] ." Instead, the conference is sponsored by a student group...

Posted by Solomon at 11:35 AM on Friday, Feb 10, 2006 | Comments (4)
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#1 bli shemot | February 10, 2006 1:40 PM

Apparently there was a segment on O'Reilly's program last night both about the conference and about the $20 million Georgetown recently got from the Saudi prince. I couldn't find a clip, though.

Also--I seem to remember someone having attended the PSM conference and blogged about it when it was held at Duke a year or so ago. This was someone pro-Israel (a Duke student, if I remember correctly) who attended the conference under cover, or something like that. Anybody got a link?

#2 Solomon | February 10, 2006 2:16 PM

Here you go:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15714

#3 bli shemot | February 10, 2006 3:17 PM

Thanks. Well, hopefully there'll be some undercover reporting at this year's PSM conference as well. I hope the PSMers are anxious about that--anxious enough to slip up.

#4 shoshan im shem acher | February 12, 2006 2:04 PM

There's an op-ed piece about the PSM conference in the Washington Post today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101014.html