When Privileged Western Undergrads Blindly Promote Terrorists‏

A Penn junior studying at al Quds University laments the "worldwide systems of white supremacism and colonialism," and especially Israel as the "settler-colonial apartheid state," but ignores al Quds' glorification of murderers of Israelis, Americans, teenagers and children.

By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus
The Jewish Press
Published: September 12th, 2013
al Quds University has the abu Jihad Museum, which honors one of the most brutal Arab Palestinian terrorists

The young woman who wrote the article, “The Problem with Band-Aids,” is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania. Her article appeared in Penn’s highly regarded newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, on September 8. The subtitle of O’Conor’s article is: “From Palestine to Penn/ When Talking About Dialogue, Empowerment and Reform Does the Rhetorical Work of Oppression and Injustice.” At Penn, Clarissa O’Conor focuses on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Modern Middle East Studies.


But O’Conor, who presents herself as an advocate for those who are disempowered, is fed up with what she claims is the oppressive force behind the term “empowerment.” This fall O’Conor is studying at al Quds University, in a place she calls, without quotation marks, “Palestine.” In this article, O’Conor explains why Penn, which apparently gives her college credit for studying at al Quds, and Bard College, which created at al Quds “a small honors college at which Palestinian students can earn a dual-degree with American accreditation,” earn her contempt.

Why? PLS CONTINUE READING: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/when-empowered-undergrads-ignore-a-victims-malevolence/2013/09/12/
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Lori Lowenthal Marcus