Featured Speaker at San Diego State U on Monday

Hat tip Stop the Ism, Debbie Schlussel, and Elitzer.com


As earlier reported here, this coming Monday, one of the co-founders of the International Solidarity Movement, Huwaida Araf, will be a featured speaker at San Diego State University. This is part of something called the Charles W Hostetler Institute on World Affairs under SDSU professor Jonathan Graubart. The event is also being advertised by Students for Justice in Palestine at SDSU.

Here is some background on Araf, who is the wife of another co-founder of ISM, Adam Shapiro. She has been reported as condoning violence on the part of Palestinians against Israel and acknowledging that ISM works with Hamas (as if we didn't know).

http://www.stoptheism.com/content/index.php?pid=127&cid=131

The above link references Araf's participation in the 4th annual Palestine Solidarity Conference at Duke University (Oct 2004). Here is the Anti-Defamation League's report on that conference.

http://archive.adl.org/israel/psm_duke.html#.UxiydvldWa8

Here is a report on the appearance of Araf and Shapiro at a similar conference at the University of Michigan in 2002:

http://elitzur.blogspot.com/2002_10_06_elitzur_archive.html

How about charges of harboring Palestinian terrorists as described in the below article?

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/22783/who-are-huwaida-arraf-adam-shapiro-gaza-flotilla-leaders-sheltered-mikes-bar-homicide-bombers-islamic-jihad/


It seems that Araf likes to talk about peace and non-violence, but has a hard time condemning violence when carried out against Israelis especially by people like Hamas. Nice choice of speakers, Dr Graubart.