PRO-PALESTINIANS TO MEET AT OHIO STATE

The Palestinian Solidarity Movement will hold its national conference at the Ohio State University campus between November 7th through 9th to criticize Israeli policies and highlight the horrors of military occupation. The group is considered by some to be anti-Semitic and a supporter of terrorism. However, Nahla Saleh, an OSU graduate student and a member of the group, stated,

"We are a diverse group of concerned students and staff who are concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people and the human rights violations of the Israeli government . . ."

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"Absolutely nothing we've done is anti-Semitic," Saleh said.

Previous conferences sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Movement featured speeches by Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor who was arrested in February. He is accused of being the U.S. leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group.

Given that the sole purpose of the conference is to condemn Israel and that the group's "guidelines" appear to sanction suicide bombing, it's hard to imagine how anything but increased hatred could result.