Palestinian Authority Targets Students

by Khaled Abu Toameh • April 9, 2019 at 5:00 am

The Palestinian students are being targeted because of their political affiliations and not because of any crime they committed.
While the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are busy beating up each other's supporters, "pro-Palestinian" activists on US and Canadian university campuses are busy blaming Israel for Palestinian woes.
For these alleged activists -- who are remarkably passive when it comes to truly assisting Palestinians -- their protests seem more about hating Israel than anything else. If they really cared about the Palestinians, they might stop abusing Israel long enough to notice the abuse that the Palestinian "leaders" inflict on the people under them.

Last month, the largest university in the West Bank, An-Najah University in Nablus, issued a directive banning the Islamic Bloc student list from carrying out any activities on campus, without giving any reason for the ban. In the past week, Palestinian Authority security forces arrested two An-Najah University students, apparently as part of an ongoing crackdown to silence and intimidate political opponents. Pictured: An-Najah University. (Image source: Ameen Rammal/Wikimedia Commons)

"Pro-Palestinian" activists at university campuses in the US and other Western countries have long been waging various campaigns to denounce Israel and hold it fully responsible for the continued "suffering" of Palestinians.

These activists, however, seem to care little about violations committed against the Palestinians by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank or Hamas in the Gaza Strip -- even when fellow students in the West Bank and Gaza are being targeted.

In recent weeks, the PA has been waging a campaign of arrests and intimidation against Palestinian students at some of the West Bank universities. The students, according to the Palestinian Authority, are being targeted because of their affiliation with opposition groups, including Hamas. The students, in other words, are being targeted because of their political affiliations and not because of any crime they committed.

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Qatar: 'A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'
Bankrolling Islamism in Europe

by Giulio Meotti • April 9, 2019 at 4:00 am

"We have been reporting Doha's ideological and religious penetration for years. In the form of investments and financial operations, Qatar extends its proselytizing network every day, with serious damage to European societies..." — Souad Sbai, the Moroccan-born president of Italy's Averroes Studies Center.
Qatar has been funding mega-mosques across Europe. Qatar's goal is apparently to Islamicize the European diaspora.
"[Qatar's] English-language stations produce slick propaganda against Qatar's enemies, dressed up in Western liberal rhetoric. Al Jazeera's latest venture – its social media channel, AJ+ – is aimed at young, progressive Americans. Its documentaries on the evils of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Trump administration are sandwiched between glowing coverage of transgender rights campaigns and emotional appeals for the plight of asylum seekers on America's southern border – seemingly incongruous topics for a broadcaster controlled by a Wahhabi regime... Qatar is now the largest foreign donor to American universities." — Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum.

According to Souad Sbai (left), the Moroccan-born president of Italy's Averroes Studies Center, "Qatar extends its proselytizing network every day, with serious damage to European societies, including Italy". Daniel Pipes (right) writes that Qatar "works to influence Western policymakers and the public directly... Its English-language stations produce slick propaganda against Qatar's enemies, dressed up in Western liberal rhetoric... Qatar is now the largest foreign donor to American universities." (Image sources: Wikimedia Commons/Luke Ford [Pipes])

In October, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini visited Qatar, the "energy giant", where he praised the emirate for "not sponsoring extremism anymore". Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Qatar, "the other Wahhabi state", apparently is interested not only in its economic relationship with Europe, but also in exporting its brand of political Islam.

According to a new book, Qatar Papers: How the Emirate Finances Islam in France and Europe, by two French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, Qatar has distributed 22 million euros to Islamic projects in Italy alone. This funding has had virtually a single beneficiary: the Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy (UCOII), accused of closeness to Qatar's pet organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, the mouthpiece of which is Qatar's media outlet, Al Jazeera, located in the capital city of Doha.

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