By Chris Short
Cross-posted from Shots on the House, originally authored by OSU student Justin Higgins.
Welcome to the world of Academia, right? A friend of mine contacted me and tipped me off that an Ohio State Assistant Professor was interviewed during an anti-Israel rally in downtown Columbus and staunchly defended Hamas, a radical Islamic terrorist organization. He also railed against what he called a "colonial occupier" in Israel. Hourglass 1941 has a pretty in-depth online report, including this video which features the OSU staff member, Pranav Jani.
The most interesting parts come when the interviewer questions Pranav Jani about the rocket attacks into Israel launched by Hamas. He calls the rocket attacks, which were not retaliatory in nature, "an act of self-defense." He goes on to say that "any resistance to the colonial occupier is justified." Later he calls for a secular Democratic state, which is not what Hamas is pushing for as an organization at all. Most interesting to me however, was his defense that he may not "agree with a particular tactic a group uses", just as he calls unprovoked rocket attacks self-defense. Does he agree or disagree with the tactic of using children as human shields? More ...
Cross-posted from Shots on the House, originally authored by OSU student Justin Higgins.
Welcome to the world of Academia, right? A friend of mine contacted me and tipped me off that an Ohio State Assistant Professor was interviewed during an anti-Israel rally in downtown Columbus and staunchly defended Hamas, a radical Islamic terrorist organization. He also railed against what he called a "colonial occupier" in Israel. Hourglass 1941 has a pretty in-depth online report, including this video which features the OSU staff member, Pranav Jani.
The most interesting parts come when the interviewer questions Pranav Jani about the rocket attacks into Israel launched by Hamas. He calls the rocket attacks, which were not retaliatory in nature, "an act of self-defense." He goes on to say that "any resistance to the colonial occupier is justified." Later he calls for a secular Democratic state, which is not what Hamas is pushing for as an organization at all. Most interesting to me however, was his defense that he may not "agree with a particular tactic a group uses", just as he calls unprovoked rocket attacks self-defense. Does he agree or disagree with the tactic of using children as human shields? More ...
Source: The Jawa Report
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