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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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Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Trump Is Lying When He Speaks of Peace
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2025. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Donald Trump on Saturday of lying when the US president said during his Gulf tour this week that he wanted peace in the region.
On the contrary, said Khamenei, the United States uses its power to give “10-ton bombs to the Zionist (Israeli) regime to drop on the heads of Gaza’s children.”
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates on Friday that Iran had to move quickly on a US proposal for its nuclear program or “something bad’s going to happen.”
His remarks, said Khamenei, “aren’t even worth responding to.” They are an “embarrassment to the speaker and the American people,” Khamenei added.
“Undoubtedly, the source of corruption, war, and conflict in this region is the Zionist regime — a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor that must be uprooted; it will be uprooted,” he said at an event at a religious center in Tehran, according to state media.
Earlier on Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Trump speaks about peace while simultaneously making threats.
“Which should we believe?” Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran. “On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing.”
Tehran would continue Iran-US nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats. “We are not seeking war,” Pezeshkian said.
While Trump said on Friday that Iran had a US proposal about its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received any such proposal. “There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes…” he said.
Araqchi warned on Saturday that Washington’s constant change of stance prolongs nuclear talks, state TV reported.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that America repeatedly defines a new framework for negotiations that prolongs the process,” the broadcast quoted Araqchi as saying.
Pezeshkian said Iran would not “back down from our legitimate rights”.
“Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region,” he said.
A fourth round of Iran-U.S. talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.
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Hamas Confirms New Gaza Ceasefire Talks with Israel in Qatar on Saturday
Doha, Qatar. Photo: StellarD via Wikimedia Commons.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel is underway in Qatar’s Doha, Hamas official Taher al-Nono told Reuters on Saturday.
He said the two sides were discussing all issues without “pre-conditions.”
Nono said Hamas was “keen to exert all the effort needed” to help mediators make the negotiations a success, adding there was “no certain offer on the table.”
The negotiations come despite Israel preparing to expand operations in the Gaza Strip as they seek “operational control” in some areas of the war-torn enclave.
The return to negotiations also comes after US President Donald Trump ended a Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire, although he acknowledged Gaza’s growing hunger crisis and the need for aid deliveries.
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Report: ICC’s Khan Goes on Administrative Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Probe
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
i24 News – Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan has stepped down temporarily as an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct by United Nations investigators is nearing its final phase, Reuters reported on Friday citing sources from the international court.
Khan allegedly forced sexual intercourse upon a member of staff on multiple occasions, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, linking the allegations to Khan’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
A statement is expected later today announcing that Khan is going on administrative leave, according to a source in the prosecutor’s office.
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