In Wake of Sarsour Speech, UNC to Co-Host Anti-Israel Conference with Duke
by Peter Reitzes | 03.07.19 3:00 pm
In February, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) hosted anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, who gave the keynote address at its Minority Health Conference. Sarsour used this prestigious UNC platform to promote Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against only one country on the planet – Israel.
In a move that many community members fear could be much worse, UNC and Duke are now preparing to jointly host a conference that will be used by some to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Titled “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities†and scheduled for March 22-24, the conference is sponsored by UNC’s Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. Co-sponsors include many departments and organizations, including the Gillings School of Global Public Health, which hosted Sarsour.
To ensure the integrity of the institutions sponsoring the event, a non-biased academic conference on Gaza would invite non-biased individuals to present. However, a look at some participants of this large conference on Gaza raises multiple concerns of severe anti-Israel bias even before the conference starts.
Read more at: http://www.thetower.org/7299-in-wake-of-sarsour-speech-unc-to-co-host-anti-israel-conference-with-duke/
Beautiful campus, well, this Sarsour woman was in the news this past week. I read a little about it.
It seems like we might be in for a bit of a rough ride on this topic in the near future. That topic being Israel.
Co-hosting with Duke University, one of my first reactions to the headline was ?? David Duke? No, the University.
