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Top PLO official Saeb Erekat to mentor students at Harvard’s Kennedy School

2020-09-03

[IsraelTimes] Chief Paleostinian negotiator will give virtual seminars as a fellow in The Future of Diplomacy Project in move criticized by pro-Israel groups.

Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
, the Paleostinians’ chief negotiator, is bringing his expertise to Harvard.

Erekat will mentor students and give virtual seminars as a fellow in The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Erekat, also the secretary general of the Executive Committee of the PLO, said in a 2014 interview with Al Jazeera that "I will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state."

The Kennedy School — among the most prestigious graduate schools for public and social policy in the world — announced Erekat’s appointment last week. The other Fisher Family Fellows include Julie Bishop, chancellor of the Australian National University; Federica Mogherini, the high representative/vice president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019; and Peter Wittig, who served nearly 40 years in the German Foreign Service.

The new fellows "will strengthen our capacity to learn the lessons of effective diplomacy and statecraft," faculty chair Nicholas Burns said, according to the watchdog group Honest Reporting.

Harvard announced last month that it would provide only online learning for the fall semester. The announcement said the fellows will visit the Ivy League university’s Boston-area campus in the spring to lead study groups on topics of their expertise, including the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.

Erekat’s appointment was criticized on Twitter by the Israel advocacy groups CAMERA on Campus and The Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 Good info TW. Thank you.

Posted by: Mad Eye Hatfield5111 2020-09-03 12:56

#2 Harvard envied Yale’s exciting student, disenchanted Taliban envoy Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi. Wilson Quarterly reported on what happened to the gentleman after his year at Yale here.

But what Harvard has bought is something else entirely.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-09-03 11:25

#1 What next, North Koreans?

Posted by: Pearl Lumplump9517 2020-09-03 06:29

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