"A-OK!"
San Francisco State University President Les Wong has reacted to complaints about one of his professors using official funds to travel to the Middle East to meet with people linked to terrorism by justifying the trip.
As previously reported here, Professor Rabab Abdulhadi traveled to the West Bank, Jordan and Israel on official funds which were granted for her to attend an event at a Middle Eastern university-an event that was cancelled. She traveled anyway and met with convicted sky-jacker Leila Khaled and another person linked to Hamas. Abdulhadi herself reportedly called the trip a "political solidarity tour".
In a reaction to complaints by the AMCHA Initiative, Wong justified the travel. Now the AMCHA Initiative has written to California State Controller John Chiang.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0beb330b057061522bbe22a7f&id=7979499c19&e=b6eadb6292
How does a political solidarity tour merit use of official funds?
Here is a comment on the issue by Abraham Miller, professor at the University of Cincinnati, which appears in Campus Watch and The Blaze.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13775
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