Harvard University’s Palestine Solidarity Committee recently hosted a series of events marking “Israel Apartheid Week.” As David Litman notes, many of the guest speakers celebrated Putin’s war in Ukraine even as they downplayed or defended Palestinian terrorism.
Margaret Kimberley, who spoke on Monday, has a penchant for comparing Ukrainians to Nazis, and has been regularly sharing obvious Russian propaganda on Twitter. For example, Kimberley thinks the “real Nazis are in Ukraine” and that they’re preparing “a chemical weapon false flag” attack.
Another speaker, Abbas Muntaqim, is a producer at the Iranian state news agency Press TV. Muntaqim likes to claim that “Neo-Nazis, al-Qaeda, and anarchists are all linked up fighting the Russians,” and that is “all you need to know about this Ukrainian regime.”
Noam Chomsky, [a veteran anti-American Israel-hater], who has a habit of downplaying or denying atrocities committed in places like Srebrenica and Syria, is another featured speaker. Just a few days ago, he told Ukrainians to “pay attention to the world” and to surrender to Russia’s invasion.
Unsurprisingly for an “Israeli Apartheid Week,” many of these speakers not only run interference for Russian attempts to wipe Ukraine off the map, but also condone Palestinian terrorism and Arab wars meant to wipe the Jewish state off the map. Muntaqim, for example, celebrates Iran for providing rockets and other weapons to “the Palestinian resistance.”
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