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Bard College’s dual degree with Hamas-linked university

Posted on January 19, 2011
by creepingsharia

Disturbing news from the Northeast Intelligence Network, Dual-degree Hamas rooted program introduced into U.S. college, backed by George Soros:

By Lee Kaplan

10 January 2011: In an article dated 27 December 2010, I wrote about how Bard College President Leon Botstein is permitting a Hamas support group called the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) to operate on his college campus to train “activists” to go the Middle East as a human shield support arm for known terrorist groups like Hamas.

Rather than closing down the campus group, the first one of its kind in the U.S. on a college campus, Botstein instead defended it as part of the “free exchange of ideas.” But Bard-ISM engages in lies and deception as part of the ISM playbook, and does more than just teach propaganda to Bard’s students.

The “campus club” trains activists to assist terrorist murderers such as are found in Hamas. Some of Bard’s trainees were involved with the Gaza “Freedom Flotilla” boats.

Now further information is emerging about the judgment of Bard’s president which could be the harbinger of more ruinous effects on American post-secondary education across the nation.

Leon Botstein, Bard’s President, who promotes himself as a progressive educator and musician and who incredibly uses the memory of his relatives who died in the Holocaust as a kind of excuse for his support of such anti-Semitic movements on his campus, has been teaming up with billionaire leftist philanthropist George Soros to create a new educational paradigm with such a program that could spell disaster for college curriculum in America. Left unchecked and allowed to exist below the radar, it will surely have an equally disastrous impact on Israel, our friend and democratic ally in the Middle East.

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With funding help from Soros, Bard college has come up with a new academic program that will award dual college degrees from Bard University and Al Quds University in the Palestinian Authority. Half the program will be dedicated to turning out “teachers,” who you can bet will be turning out the false history and political garbage of the totalitarian Palestinian Authority, not what US teachers usually teach.

This dual degree program with Bard isn’t just limited to Al Quds University in the Palestinian Authority but is intended to be also offered in conjunction with “another Palestinian college” in the West Bank. Those other colleges, such as Bir Zeit University and Al-Najah are also known Hamas bastions. The student groups that ran for control of student government at Bir Zeit ran on a ticket of Hamas murdering more Jews than its terrorist club opponents with displays illustrating Israeli buses destroyed by attacks and explosions. Meanwhile, An-Najah ran a museum exhibit on campus representing the Sbarro Pizza Parlor bombing by Hamas, replete with blood splattered display and body parts, all in praise of the Arab “martyr” who carried out the mass murder.

It is important to understand that once such a dual program is accredited in the US, Botstein’s support of these terror-bases-cum colleges in the Middle East can also enjoy financial subsidies from U.S. taxpayers via Title IV funding of the National Education Act.

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When I confronted Botstein about this, he justified it by citing the assorted SJP chapters across the country. One can be certain that if Botstein allows the ISM Chapter on his campus to continue conducting business as usual, other campuses will follow suit and allow similar training chapters of the ISM on their campuses. They will point to Bard, Botstein and Al Quds and consider it as a progressive “pilot” program. The dual “Bard-Al Quds diploma program” will undoubtedly provide a sense of legitimacy to future programs at other colleges and universities.

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What you can do

Send Leon Botstein a professional and polite email that expresses your opposition to this particular program at: President@Bard.edu. Be sure to let him know that you read about this project from the Northeast Intelligence Network.

Read it all, contact Bard, and contact your elected officials.

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