UT-Austin Protesters Used Terrorist Online Aliases

Two of the protesters who disrupted a public lecture directed by Ami Pedahzur at UT-Austin have used the online aliases of terrorists. Pedahzur himself reported, and Legal Insurrection confirms, that protest ringleader Mohammed Nabulsi has used the online alias “Georges Abdallah,” a notorious member of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions who murdered American Lt. Col. Charles R. Ray and Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov in Paris in the summer of 1982; he’s serving a life sentence in France. Another member of the group, Patrick Higgins, refers to himself as Edward Despard, a British officer who became radicalized and plotted to kill King George III because of the Irish troubles and was executed for high treason in 1803.

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
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