‘Zionists’ have ‘unquenchable thirst for Palestinian blood,’ Duke speaker says
Duke University’s Student Government voted on March 16 to give over $16,000 to an upcoming event featuring a speaker who is a staunch critic of Israel and Zionism.
Mohammed El-Kurd and journalist Ahmed El-Din will speak at the private North Carolina university on March 31 thanks to a $16,835 grant from the student government, according to The Chronicle.
The event is called “Narrating Resistance and Agency: Shifting the Discourse on Palestine” and is hosted by the campus Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.
The allocation to the event raised concerns for some student senators who objected to past language used by El-Kurd to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Across the country Zionists are beating, gassing, shooting, lynching Palestinians,” El-Kurd, who lives in “occupied Jerusalem” according to his Twitter bio, wrote on the social media site.