On Thursday, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) was among several members of Congress to visit the pro-Hamas encampment at George Washington University to see the extent of the occupation and the damage it has caused.
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During his visit, Donalds was interrupted by an older pro-Hamas protester who proceeded to yell at Donalds and call him a “race traitor” and “Uncle Tom” over his support of Israel and his stand against antisemitism.
Rep. Donalds’ only response was to observe that the man seemed to be a little old to be a student before resuming his remarks to others on the campus.
READ: Byron Donalds Dunks Pro-Hamas Agitator During GWU Visit, Raises Larger Point in the Process
While it’s not uncommon to see older students going to college, Donalds’ comment ended up being prescient, because as it turns out, the man has now been identified, not as a GWU student but as a Georgetown adjunct lecturer with a history of activism against and hatred towards Israel:
Zein El-Amine, a Lebanese writer and adjunct lecturer at Georgetown, lashed out at Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) on Thursday when the lawmaker arrived on campus to show his support for the embattled Jewish and pro-Israel community.
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El-Amine is no stranger to anti-Israel activism, and has a long history of supporting Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), one of the central campus groups engaging in anti-Semitic protests and waging violence against Jewish students. SJP’s parent group, National Students for Justice in Palestine, was sued earlier this week by Israeli terror victims who allege the group is partially liable for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror raid in Israel.
El-Amine in the past has “spread anti-Israel terror propaganda on social media, specifically including images promoted by the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),” according to an online dossier published by Canary Mission, a watchdog group that tracks campus anti-Semites.
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A Google search also showed El-Amine, who spends a lot of time on Twitter pushing Hamas propaganda, as an “Adjunct Instructor of Critical Race Gender and Culture Studies” at American University in Washington, D.C. His spring 2024 curriculum was noted as “Topics in Arab World Studies: Arab [History] through Arab Novels.”
While I certainly wouldn’t put it past an actual student to use those same slurs against Donalds, the fact that it was a lecturer who uttered them explains quite a bit in the context of what we’re seeing take place on campuses across the country.
Cornell law professor Bill Jacobson* summed things up rather succinctly after seeing the video and learning the man’s identity:
For the 10 millionth time, academia (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) is completely broken, it has been taken over by radicals more extreme than you can imagine, it cannot be reformed internally. https://t.co/QjgjTWGMCg
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) May 3, 2024
‘Nuff said.
*Full disclosure: I also write for Prof. Jacobson’s website, LegalInsurrection.com.
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