PLO Official Protested Israeli Presence at Anti-Semitism Conference
by IPT News • Sep 16, 2011
PLO Ambassador to Washington Maen Areikat drew unwanted attention by suggesting earlier this week that a new Palestinian state would be Jew-free.
Asked about the rights of minorities in a future Palestinian state, Areikat told reporters Tuesday that Palestinians and Jews should be “totally separated” in a new Palestinian state. After decades of conflict and friction, “I think it would be in the best interest of the two peoples to be separated,” he told reporters in the Nation’s Capitol.
At a House hearing Wednesday, former presidential advisor Elliott Abrams called Areikat’s remarks “a despicable form of anti-Semitism” and told lawmakers that the PLO office should be closed if the group continues trying to circumvent negotiations with Israel by getting the United Nations to declare Palestinian statehood.
Areikat later denied calling for a Palestinian state without Jews and said his remarks had been taken out of context. But Tuesday’s comments were not the first time he had stirred controversy with comments about Israelis and Jews.
In August 2010, Areikat protested Yale University’s decision to include three Israelis at a conference entitled “Global Anti-Semitism: A Crisis of Modernity” because he does not like their work. Areikat wrote to Yale President Richard Levin expressing “deep dismay” over the speakers and topics discussed at the conference.
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Actually it is a nation that is Jew-Free and Gay-Free. Their mentor Hitler would be very proud.
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