So Jason Alexander is coming to Israel on One Voice’s dime to promote whatever new peace deal the Israeli Left is in is favor of this week (everything is negotiable, except the Right of Return, East Jerusalem, all of the West Bank, and reparations for refugees). A main part of his little self-congratulatory tour of duty involves going to the places where you can always find starry-eyed young idealists, the University:
To promote the initiative, Alexander is to meet with Israeli student leaders at Bar Ilan University and Palestinian student leaders at Bir Zeit University.
“Student leaders at Bir Zeit University.” Sounds innocent enough, right – meet with students from both sides of the conflict, hear young peoples’ views, etc. Except that student leaders at Bir Zeit tend to have a slightly skewed opinion of what counts as peace:
The campaign for the student government council at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah featured exploding models of Israeli buses and claims of prowess based on Israeli casualties… In voting Wednesday, Hamas won 25 seats of the 51 on the council…
At a debate, the Hamas candidate asked the Fatah candidate: “Hamas activists in this university killed 135 Zionists. How many did Fatah activists from Bir Zeit kill?”
The Fatah candidate refused to answer, suggesting his rival “look at the paper, go to the archives and see for yourself… Fatah set up models of Jewish settlements and then blew them up with fireworks… Hamas countered by blowing up models of Israeli buses.
I wonder if Jason Alexander will bring up the explicit genocide advocated in Hamas’s charter when he meets with their student “leaders.” Somehow I doubt it.
Oh, one more thing. Emphasis mine:
The campaign was so focused on violent activities that officials at the university — considered the most liberal of the Palestinian higher education institutions — were nervous.
