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London university lecturer used Hamas propaganda material to ‘indoctrinate’ students

Academic asked seminar group to consider Hamas as a ‘liberation movement’

November 27, 2024 15:12
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2G709BM London, UK. 9th July 2021. Demonstrators outside King's College London during the Student Protest For Palestine. Demonstrators marched to various universities in central London demanding they divest from all companies complicit in Israeli violations of international law and that they sever all links with complicit Israeli institutions. (Credit: Vuk Valcic / Alamy Live News)
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A King’s College London academic used a Hamas propaganda document to encourage her students to sympathise with the terror group, the JC can reveal.

Dr Rana Baker, a lecturer on Middle Eastern history,  led a seminar earlier this year in which she handed out the Hamas text titled “Our Narrative: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” and suggested students think about the terrorist organisation as a “liberation” movement.

She also remarked on the “collaboration between Zionists and Nazis” and the “deployment of the Holocaust as a justification to build an exclusive Jewish state”.

In March, as part of a seminar on the 1948 war and “Palestinian Arab identity-formation”, Baker distributed to students excerpts from a Hamas tract that justified the October 7 attack.