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Member of U.S.-designated terrorist group will speak on ‘arrest, detention, and torture in the Israeli military system’

A Georgetown University Law student group is set to host a speaker this month who is linked to the killing of an Israeli teenager in a 2019 bombing.

The university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter will host Ribhi Karajah, a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on Feb. 11, Jewish Insider reported.

The “former Palestinian political prisoner” will give a talk on “arrest, detention, and torture in the Israeli military system,” according to an Instagram post by LSJP.

The speaker was held in an Israeli prison for more than three years after admitting in a plea deal that he knew specific details about a planned lethal bombing but “did nothing to stop it,” according to Jewish Insider.

The bombing killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and injured her brother and father.

One law student named Julia Wax Vanderwiel told Jewish Insider that Karajah’s presence on campus “threatens the security of all Jewish students.”

She also said LSJP frequently advocates for Hamas and “has members that attempt to discredit the Holocaust.”

Karajah “will no doubt propagate those same students and validate their violent inclinations,” the student said.

In response to the news of the event, columnist and Jewish advocate Eyal Yakoby condemned the Georgetown student group on X, writing, “Shame on the media outlets who called SJP an anti-war group—they’re domestic terrorists.”

The College Fix contacted Georgetown University Law Center via email regarding its response to concerns about a member of a U.S.-designated terrorist group speaking on campus. The center did not immediately respond.

This isn’t the first time Georgetown has faced scrutiny for hosting an anti-Israel speaker.

In 2022, “One day before Yom Hashoah…the Georgetown University Law Center hosted a well-attended event featuring notorious antisemitic conspiracy theorist Mohammed El-Kurd” who “is infamous for promoting the modern-day ‘blood libel’ against Jews,” the Brandeis Center reported.

Last year, Georgetown’s Qatar campus hosted a four-day conference with speakers linked to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, The Fix previously reported.

Some speakers had previously made anti-Semitic remarks or expressed support for Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Columbia University has also faced backlash for offering a course on “Zionism” this spring taught by a professor who described terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel as “awesome,” The Fix reported.

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