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Tufts University To Offer ‘Colonizing Palestine’ Course. Pro-Israel Students Fire Back.

Kassy Akiva

Tufts University in Massachusetts is facing criticism from pro-Israel students for offering a course this upcoming fall 2018 semester titled “Colonizing Palestine,” which will discuss “the Israeli state which illegally occupied Palestine.”

The class will be taught by Thomas Abowd, a professor with a lengthy history of anti-Israel advocacy including being active in the Students for Justice in Palestine movement and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement. Abowd was a featured speaker for Tufts’ annual Israeli Apartheid Week, Campus Reform reports.

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