Proof That Georgetown’s Cancel Mob Doesn’t Believe Its Own Rhetoric By Nate Hochman
Yesterday, I reported that Georgetown Law is hosting Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian poet and writer with a long history of antisemitic comments, on campus this Tuesday. El-Kurd has claimed that Israelis “harvest organs of the martyred” and “feed their warriors our own”; attacked Jews — including non-Israeli Jews — for “ethnically cleansing,” “colonizing,” “lynching,” and “Kristallnachting us in real time”; repeatedly denied that Jews are indigenous to the region; glorified the Second Intifada and called it “psychotic” to call for Palestinians to be peaceful; and written of Israeli forces: “I hope every one of them dies in the most torturous & slow ways. I hope that they see their mothers suffering (not that these conscienceless pigs would care). I hope these terrorists get what they deserve tenfold.” In audio clips from a speech at Arizona State University earlier this month, El-Kurd appeared to joke that Jews “control the media” and can be heard saying: “I suspect some apartheid lovers are here . . . if you heckle me you will get shot.”
El-Kurd’s scheduled appearance at Georgetown Law, however, is particularly ironic for a number of reasons. To the backdrop of the school’s apparent commitment to academic freedom for left-wing antisemites, professor Ilya Shapiro was famously suspended for a tweet criticizing the Biden administration’s use of racial preferences in Supreme Court nominations. He’s been on administrative leave since late January. The suspension came on the heels of an anti-Shapiro campaign on Twitter and by campus activists, in which the school’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) circulated a petition and held a sit-in calling for Shapiro’s ouster over his “apparent prejudice.” The Georgetown Law dean, Bill Treanor, promptly capitulated and subsequently showed up to address the activist sit-in personally. At the sit-in, Treanor informed BLSA leaders that he was “appalled” by the “painful” nature of Shapiro’s tweets and promised to “listen,” “learn” and ultimately “do better,” adding that — while “the university does have a free speech and expression policy” — he wanted to “draw a line between conservatism and things that are racist.”
I noted the obvious hypocrisy of the school’s position yesterday, being committed to free-speech absolutism only where the Left is concerned and worried about lines being crossed only where the Right is concerned.
But the irony goes a level deeper. El-Kurd was invited to campus by the Georgetown Law chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), slated to discuss “the ongoing legal battle settler organizations are waging to displace Palestinian families from East Jerusalem” alongside Harvard Law School attorney Rabea Eghbariah, according to a flyer posted on the Georgetown Law SJP’s instagram.
Guess who signed the BLSA petition calling for Shapiro’s termination?
Yep. The very same group hosting Mohammed El-Kurd.
That’s a pretty good indication that all the rhetoric about drawing a line at “prejudice” was hollow.
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