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...Raju says that the group’s foray into Israeli-Palestinian issues accelerated this fall as a “reactive process,” spurred by clashes with HSI. On Nov. 3, HIPJ and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) hosted Amer Jubran—a local activist then facing deportation to Jordan—in a Science Center auditorium, where he delivered a speech decrying the USA Patriot Act. Jubran, who refuses to condemn Palestinian suicide bombings against Jewish targets, provoked protests from pro-Israel groups. HSI members emphasized that their objection was to Jubran?...
This past Monday, the Society of Arab Students (SAS), the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ) and the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) sponsored a speech and presentation by Amer Jubran, a pro-Palestinian activist whose final deportation trial was held yesterday in Boston...
Jubran’s trial ended yesterday with Jubran accepting voluntary deportation to Jordan. Amer Jubran will never be at the head of another rally shouting his enthusiastic pro-peace slogans; but more distressingly, it is the autocratic measures of a land which purports to cherish free speech that have led to his tragic silencing...
Sadly, the fact that men like Jubran exist is not shocking. What is surprising is that there are groups of Harvard students who feel the need to bring this type of murderous hate to our campus. That Amer Jubran, a man who has defended those who murder innocent civilians and violate of human rights, should be brought to speak by the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice as well as the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard is hypocritical and intolerable...
Supporters of this event might argue that it is meant to express sympathy with Jubran in his fight against deportation and not with his views on terrorism, yet these arguments ring hollow. It is true that Amer Jubran has the right to free speech and I suppose there is a possibility that the United States government has acted improperly with regard to his deportation. These facts alone, however, do not explain why, out of the numerous cases of civil rights abuses in the past, Jubran was chosen (hopefully despite his beliefs and not because of them) to be honored with...