How Can SFSU Befriend An-Najah When it Glorifies Killers?

The author of this moving JNS piece, Stephen M. Flatow, who lost his own daughter in a 1995 Palestinian terrorist attack, remembers Joan Edelstein Davenny, a San Francisco native who died in a Hamas-perpetrated suicide bombing in 1995. He discusses Campus Watch’s campaign to end San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s partnership with Hamas-dominated An-Najah University in the West Bank, asking how SFSU President Leslie Wong could befriend the university that glorifies her killers.

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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