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Misrepresentations in Faculty-Written “Princeton University community statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people”

In a May 18th opinion piece in the Daily Princetonian, “Princeton University community statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people,” some 25 Princeton faculty published a statement filled with empirically false or grotesquely exaggerated assertions, a profound lack of empathy for Israelis and Jewish lives and safety, a glaring omissions of relevant information together with a one-sided, ahistorical view of the situation, a simplistic and disingenuous account of the facts on the ground in which the Palestinian Arabs are wholly innocent, Hamas’s terror is invisible and absent, and Israel is a colonial, illegal occupier of Arab land, an occupation that includes land grabs, state-sponsored terror, militarism, and random and sadistic violence against an indigenous population.

Read more at website of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East .

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