At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a handful of anti-Israel pro-Hamas faculty members gathered to celebrate the acts of “resistance” by Hamas on October 7. This witches’ coven was held to discuss “Social Justice in Palestine.” Or rather, the subject was Injustice — by which was meant not the oppressive despotisms run by Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank — but the “injustice” of the Palestinians still not able to destroy the apartheid colonial-settler genocidal state of Israel, that must eventually be replaced “from the river to the sea” by a twenty-third Arab state, the state of “Palestine.”
The moving spirit of the “round-table” talk was Danielle Purifoy, an assistant professor of geography, and the main speaker was Dr. Rania Masri, who apparently has no connection to UNC-Chapel Hill, but was known to Purifoy through the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, where Purifoy was recently the chairman of the board and Masri is now a co-director.
A report on the anti-Israel meeting by one of those who attended: “The Anti-Israel Hate and Moral Bankruptcy at UNC Is Stunning,” by Peter Reitzes, Algemeiner, March 12, 2024:
On Nov. 28, I attended a now-notorious anti-Israel event titled “No Peace Without Justice: A Round-Table Talk about Social Justice in Palestine,” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
The event was sponsored by two campus departments, and UNC’s Student Life & Leadership program.
One of the speakers, Dr. Rania Masri, said: “Oct. 7 for many of us from the region was a beautiful day.” Masri went on to fawn over Hamas paragliders, and called for “the eradication of Zionism.”
Yes, for Rania Masri, October 7 was indeed “a beautiful day.” It was beautiful to hear about those 3,000 brave Hamas warriors, who smashed into Israel, where they proceeded to behead babies, burn children alive, gang-rape, torture, mutilate, and murder girls, slice the breasts off women and use them to play catch, cut off the genitalia of men and gouge out their eyes, murder children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, and much more. Deeds of derring-do. When it was over, 1,200 Israelis had been murdered, and 253 were taken back to Gaza as hostages. Dr. Rania Masri was ecstatic, and wanted to share her joy with the likes of the moral and intellectual nitwit Danielle Purifoy, who had invited her to speak on campus.
As I [Peter Reitzes] reported, not a single panelist or UNC professor in attendance disagreed with Masri.
Rather, two panelists openly concurred. In fact, after the event, a panelist – the Rev. Mark Davidson – wrote on social media: “It was a good conversation, and I felt privileged to be part of the panel.”
Mark Davidson is a reverend, a man of God, who found the celebration of Hamas’ atrocities on that “beautiful day”perfectly acceptable, part of that “good conversation” they were all having about Justice for Palestine, and about the wicked ways of the malignant Jews of Israel.
Danielle Purifoy, a UNC professor of geography, helped organize the event. On Oct. 7 — the day Hamas massacred 1,200 in Israel, used rape and sexual assault as weapons of war, and took hundreds of hostages — Purify tweeted, “Solidarity with folks fighting to free themselves in Palestine” and retweeted, “colonialism is bad for settlers.”
“Folks fighting to free themselves” by beheading babies, gang-raping girls, gouging out eyes. Hey, what’s not to like? Besides, these are “settlers” or “colonialists” or “settler colonialists” who came to steal land that had belonged to the “Palestinians” since time immemorial. What claim could the Jews possibly have to a place called “Palestine”? They really should all go back to Europe, or wherever the hell they came from.
According to a 2022 tax filing, Purifoy was recently board chair of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), where Masri is currently co-director. Ajamu Dillahunt Jr. serves as NCEJN’s current board co-chair. All three are anti-Israel activists.
Public records reveal that Masri wrote to Purifoy and Dillahunt after the event. Rather than apologize for her hateful comments, Masri apologized for getting caught:
…I gave a talk at UNC five days ago, and a statement that I made has been taken out of its historical context and mis-construed. It was stupid of me to say it knowing that Zionists are around the corner and waiting to pounce.
I am truly, very very sorry, for any harm that I have caused — to UNC, to NCEJN, and to the larger movement.
This was Rania Masri’s message of alarmed apology (to which I have added some vetriloquent words of my own) to Ajamu: “It was stupid for me to praise to the skies the Hamas attacks, because ‘Zionists’ were listening in — they’re always lying in wait to catch us out — and are now attacking me for making those remarks. I spoke the truth, of course, I can do no other, but you know how hysterical those Zionists can be. And I hope that their attacks on me don’t harm you. Our cause — the ‘larger movement’ to bring the Jewish state crashing down, to be replaced by a twenty-third Arab one — is too important to let it be knocked off-kilter by a bunch of vicious Zionists accusing us of supporting Hamas. Of course we do — how could we not? — but we don’t have to let them eavesdrop on what should be kept as conversations among ourselves.”
Walter Sieruk says
As observed of October 7h 2023 those jihadists of that demonic and murderous jihad entity, Hamas have no limits, at all, to its horrendously horrific heinous immoral vile evils that it so maliciously commits.
In other words, Hamas, with is jihadists, have, to their cruel heinous and horrendously horrific vile and heinous Islamic evils that they so maliciously and murderously commits.
Therefore, those the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a handful of anti-Israel pro-Hamas faculty members gathered in celebration of the atrocities that those wicked Hamas jihadist committed on 10/7/23 is as affront.
Those at UNC who had engaged in that sadistic celebration exposed themselves to be evil callous and demonically heartless as those jihadists who had committed horrific actions on that terrible day.
Related to this, the Bible informs its reader “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.”
Proverbs 17:5. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
Those few at the UNC who did celebrate the heinous violent murderous evils that the jihadists of Hamas committed on October 7th, 2023 are a reflection of the Bible verse of Proverbs 28 :4 which reads “Those who forsake the law praise the wicked but such as keep the law contend with them.” [N.K.J.V.]
So in this situation, those at UNC who celebrated the evil events of that day are actually lawless at heart .Furthermore as for the words “such has keep the law contend with them “ must be the soldiers of the Israel Defense Force.
Walter Sieruk says
The leftist US President t Franklin D. Roosevelt with all liberal socialist ideology still had more common sense and understanding than Joe Biden ,with comrades of the Red/Green alliance, for Biden is still striving to obtain that folly of an idea of a “two state solution.” Which in reality is no solution but a recipe for disaster. The reason why this is so is because a “Palestine state” that would be, no doubt, controlled by wicked jihad-minded Muslims with all their Islamic intolerance would only be a set up for a catastrophe in the Middle East.
As President Roosevelt, had so very wisely declared, “No compromise can end that conflict. There never has been—there never can be—successful compromise between good and evil. Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith.”
Greyhound Fancier says
A two-state solution has been tried. Starting in 2006, Hamas/Gaza used the aid they were given to beat plowshares into swords, wreak havoc, and finally commit the atrocity of October 7.
Unconditional surrender of Hamas, followed by de-Hamasification, might some day fit the people living in Gaza for self-rule. However, for now, they completely blew it and it’s a shame that antisemitism influences anyone to seen the Gazans as anything but barbarians who need a long probation prior to being admitted to contact with civilized people.
Mike says
Those faculty members might as well
Celebrate serial killers and other mass murderers such as Ted Bundy, Henry Lee Lucas, and the Parkland school shooter, because they were just “resisting oppressive Western societal norms.”
Really, these people must have turds for brains.
somehistory says
“the Rev. Mark Davidson ” This guy is no Christian. He may be a male of god, but not the Biblical God; and in my opinion not a *man* either. He should have had the moral fortitude to stand up to these ghouls and defend *right* instead of going along with the evil. But, it seems he is all in with what the ghouls had to say.
And the one ghoul’s claim that her words were taken ‘out of context’…”historical” or not…is an old saw, and an excuse that doesn’t work when it’s a lie.
There is no ‘context’ when the words spoken are in defense, and even praise, of evil.
Parents, don’t send another penny to that state *institution* and for their sakes, don’t send your kids to learn there.
OLD GUY says
Oh yes lets CELEBRATE the MURDER, RAPE and BRUTALITY of these wonderful people of HAMAS.
If you’re willing to celebrate this let’s bring the KKK out and celebrate them as well, how about also celebrating Hitler and the NAZI Party or Putin and his work camps and treatment of political foes. I guess you all could celebrate world slavery day for the Africansand muslim countries that supported the sale of their people.
YOUR IDIOTS!