At Georgetown University’s law school, an anti-Israel group planned to hold an event on campus with a Palestinian terrorist group member who was found guilty of killing a 17-year-old Israeli girl as the main speaker.
But the university moved the event to a different time. A group that fights for Jewish rights in the law is now asking the law school to officially stop the event.
A Georgetown law student took pictures of flyers on campus and shared them with Fox News Digital. The pictures show that Georgetown Law Students for Justice in Palestine planned an event with Ribhi Karajah for February 11.
According to the flyer, “Palestinian Prisoners, an evening with Ribhi Karajah, student activist and former political prisoner,” Karajah will talk to students about his “arrest, detention, and torture in the Israeli military judicial system.”
Karajah, a U.S. citizen, was arrested along with two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the U.S. considers to be a terrorist organization. He spent three and a half years in prison for his role in a roadside bombing in August 2019 that killed a young Israeli girl named Rina Shnerb and seriously hurt her father and brother. Karajh was told about the attack in detail by people in the PFLP, and he later admitted in a plea deal that he did nothing to stop it.
During the 2017 school year, Karajah also spent a few months in an Israeli jail while attending Birzeit University, which is known for being a haven for people who support terrorism. Adar Rubin, the head of mobilization at End Jew Hatred and a Jewish activist, says that Karajah has pushed PFLP leadership on social media and spoken at events put on by the PFLP.
The student group said on social media that Karajah’s event had to be canceled because of bad weather. However, in a statement, they said that two days before the event, the law school told them to cancel it so that the university “could conduct a thorough investigation into serious safety and security concerns that had arisen in connection with the event.”
Another group that helps students deal with anti-Semitism on college, The Lawfare Project, is now asking the university to cancel the event. The Lawfare Project sent a letter to the dean and vice dean of Georgetown’s law school on Wednesday. In it, they said that they were breaking federal law by giving money or goods to terrorists.
“According to 18 U.S.C. ยง 2339A, “material support or resources” can include things like expert advice or help, a place to stay, training, staff, and services. In Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a broad reading of this law, saying that even actions that seem harmless, like giving an FTO member a platform, can help terrorists and break federal law. This is what The Lawfare Project told William Treanor, the dean of Georgetown’s law school.
“GULC risks giving material support to a known terrorist agent by letting Karajah speak on its campus.” The university is still responsible for this event, even though it was put together by an approved student group.
The Lawfare Project also wants Georgetown to say if any law school officials knew about Karajah’s ties to the PFLP before giving the event the go-ahead. That Thursday, the group told Fox News Digital that they still hadn’t heard from the school.
During his recent trip to the nation’s capital, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a number of college students and recent grads from the United States who have been at the forefront of rising anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses. Julia Wax Vanderwiel, founder and head of Georgetown Law Zionists, told Netanyahu about the event while they were talking with these students.
She told Jewish Insider, “Netanyahu had a very strong reaction to what I said.” “He’s horrified by what’s going to happen.” He said he knows for sure who the dead 17-year-old is. He got to know the family. He told us to keep going. He really heard, cared, and wants something to happen.
Vanderweil talked to Jewish Insider and said that Karajah’s “presence on our campus threatens the safety of all Jewish students.”
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