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SJP at Duke University Celebrates Hamas ‘Resistance’ and Demeans 9/11 Victims to Attack Israel
Clocktower Quad at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Photo: Warren LeMay/Wikimedia Commons.
In their latest slur against the United States, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Duke University designed and posted an infographic equating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with Israel’s war against Hamas and Iranian-backed terrorists.
SJP’s post made a pathetic and insulting attempt to draw sympathy to its cause, with a headline that read: “For the past 11 months every day and night is september 11th in Gaza.”
Unsurprisingly, SJP posted this on September 11, 2024, when families whose lives were shattered by the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks were deep in mourning and reflection.
The members of Duke SJP did not, however, post a story commemorating the nearly 3,000 victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In fact, the only parallels between 9/11 and 10/7 are that both were cowardly acts of terror by groups who were — and are still — committed to killing Israelis, Jews, and Americans.
Although SJP claims to sympathize with the 9/11 attacks, they have celebrated the massacre of 1,200 people of all nationalities in Israel on October 7. Furthermore, SJP also repeatedly speaks about its hatred for America.
SJP chapters across the country have called for the “Destruction of the American empire.”
They also praised Iran and the Houthis’ attacks on Israel, which are often backed by a slogan of “God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
Just a few days prior to their 9/11 story, Duke SJP posted a vile response to the recent murder of the six Israeli hostages by. Hamas, including 23-year old Israeli-American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
When it was publicly known that Hamas terrorists shot these starved and tortured hostages execution style, 11 months after they were abducted, Duke SJP posted “Israel is Killing the Hostages in Gaza One by One.”
This reversal of the narrative takes away any blame from Hamas, and enables the terrorist group. Hamas not only uses bombs, torture, kidnapping, rape, human shields, theft of humanitarian aid, and execution of dissenters, but is versed in psychological warfare and the promotion of vile propaganda. And SJP is a shouting voice for this Hamas propaganda.
The message and tactics of SJP should be anathema to what universities stand for — and more universities should follow the lead of schools like Rutgers that have banned SJP for this behavior.
We are less than a month away from the one year anniversary (more accurately yahrzeit) of the worst terror attack on Israel ever, and the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust. And what will Duke SJP be doing the weekend of October 7th? They will be joining a North Carolina statewide rally titled “One Year of Genocide, One Year of Resistance.”
SJP will be honoring Hamas as resistance fighters and praising them as martyrs, when in fact, they are the ones sacrificing the civilians of Gaza, and treating them as pawns in their fanatical quest to wipe Jews and Israel off the map.
It’s unconscionable that students who show no remorse for victims of terror are walking around Duke’s campus without consequences. SJP is not a voice for justice or peace; it is a mouthpiece for terror.
Ben Stone is a graduate of Trinity College at Duke University, and a Duke CAMERA Fellow. Ben currently works in the acceleration of food startups in New York City.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.