WHY ARE PA TAXPAYERS FUNDING ANTISEMITIC HATEFEST AT PENN? LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS
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Palestine Writes at UPenn is funded in part by Pennsylvania taxpayers through a grant issued by the
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts in violation of Pennsylvania Human Rights law which bars discrimination on
the basis of religion, nationality, and ethnicity.
Billed as a literary event, Palestine Writes is in fact devoted entirely to promoting the destruction of the Jewish
State, denial of the Jews’ connection to the land of Israel and denunciation of Zionism which is the Jewish
commitment to sovereignty in the land of Israel. It also promotes and celebrates the murder of Jewish civilians
and calls for the liberation of terrorists whose murders are hailed as a legitimate form of resistance.
An incomplete but representative list of the speakers at this hate fest include convicted terrorists, supporters
of convicted terrorists, enablers of convicted terrorists and terrorism supporters.
• Mays a/k/a Mayss Abu Ghosh, a convicted terrorist, works with the terrorist groups Hezbollah and the
PFLP and explicitly supports violence as the “only road to Palestine.”
• Antisemitic musician Roger Waters, a prominent BDS activist who regularly employs antisemitic tropes
and imagery – including a pig-shaped balloon emblazoned with a Star of David – that denigrate Jewish
people, including equating Israel with Nazi Germany
• Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement which cooperates with the terrorist
organizations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the PFLP. She and other ISM activists served as
human shields for the siege of the Church of the Nativity during which 200 civilian hostages were held
amongst bombs and booby traps
• Susan Abalhawa, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PALESTINE WRITES, calls for intifada terror wars
and Israel’s destruction, glorifies terrorists and likens Israel to Nazis
• Noura Erakat uses and teaches others to use the (since revoked )1975 UN Zionism is Racism resolution
• Disgraced former CNN correspondent and newly hired CUNY professor Marc Lamont Hill, who
supports the destruction of Israel “From the river to the sea”
• Anti-Israel professor-activist David Palumbo Liu, who has tweeted, “If Israel is not the most hated
nation in the world, there is something deeply wrong with the world.”
• Anti-Israel agitator Reem Assil, who gained infamy for emblazoning one wall of her bakery with a
mural idolizing PFLP mass murderer Rasmea Odeh and led disruptive BDS protests in the U.S.
• Past president of Students for Justice in Palestine at Rhode Island School of Design Aya Ghanameh,
who says, “yeah i support violent resistance and what about it?”
• Refaat Alareer, a professor at Islamic University of Gaza, who is on record as saying, “Are most Jews
evil? Of course they are.”
WHY IS PENNSYLVANIANS’ MONEY BEING USED TO FUND THIS? BECAUSE PA LAWMAKERS WERE LIED TO.
At its March 9, 2023 meeting Pennsylvania Council on the Arts approved a “Creative Catalyst Grant”
application, for Palestine Writes. The application sought funding for “an anthology of Palestinian writing
[which] will feature Palestinian voices from across Pennsylvania and the nation.” The promised works “will
include poetry, essays, fiction and dramatic scripts that portray the diversity of the community along class,
gender, and racial lines.”
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