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Harvard to Host Summer Program at Palestinian University Dominated by Hamas
(Daily Wire) Kassy Dillon - Harvard University will host a summer program at Birzeit University in the West Bank that called for "glory to martyrs" after the Oct. 7 terrorist massacre in Israel. Birzeit has a student body that overwhelmingly elected a Hamas-affiliated bloc to run its student government. Harvard's "Palestine Social Medicine" course "is designed to introduce students to the social, structural, political, and historical aspects that determine Palestinian health beyond the biological basis of disease." When a Hamas-affiliated bloc won its student government elections for a second year in a row in May, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised the victory and spoke to participants at their celebrations over the phone. The student government president, Abdulmajid Hassan, and seven other students were arrested by the Israel Defense Forces in September, accused of planning a terror attack, to which some of the suspects confessed. In 2022, Birzeit student activists were arrested for helping to launder money from Gaza to Hamas members in Turkey to finance terrorist attacks.