Israel Matzav

This week, Georgetown University began announcing the Fifth Annual Student Palestine Solidarity Conference on the University’s website using the same rhetoric that Duke University used in announcing a similar event almost two years ago. The Conference is being billed as a testimonial to the exercise of "freedom of speech" and the participants are tellng everyone they are "peace activists" even though they refuse to condemn terrorism. And, in true form, Al-Awda, one of the main organizations of the ISM, immediately dispatched an open email to its membership.

The following email [which I have not reproduced below - you will have to follow the link above to see it CiJ] was sent out as an “open letter” by Al Awda members calling for suicide bombers to blow themselves up in Hadassah hospital where Ariel Sharon is in intensive care. Lest one think such statements merely rhetoric, the letter even mentions the room number and specific targets to attack and contains a reply address:

I hope that reply address is flooded with hate mail....