Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat To Mentor Students At Harvard’s Kennedy School For International Affairs

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Secretary of State John Kerry is flanked by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni at a Washington news conference on the Middle East peace process, July 30, 2013. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

MASSACHUSETTS (JTA) – Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator, is bringing his expertise to Harvard.

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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-Palestinian conflict.

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

Erekat has been involved in every Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiation since 2000, according to Honest Reporting, which said he has misstated facts and accused Israel of assassinating former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

“Tomorrow’s leaders should be presented with a true, fair and balanced perspective about conflicts so that they may develop their own opinions,” the watchdog group said.


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Just sayin’
Just sayin’
3 years ago

As if the university culture isn’t poisonous enough

Sam
Sam
3 years ago

Besides all criticism on his character. His only lesson he’ll be able to teach, is how to negotiate for 20 years, and not accomplish a thing, and still get a job at Harvard

Good bye America
Good bye America
3 years ago

Yup. Another Biden supporter. Only left wing radical anti G-d anti semitic pro BDS BLM lover thugs have free speech. The right wing are not allowed to speak in a university.

Stam Misha
Stam Misha
3 years ago

birds of a feather, nuff said. Have you noticed how these days all types of evil seek each other and unite? Another sign of yemos hamoshiach.