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March 19, 2020

Students for Justice in Palestine Doesn’t Care About Justice—or Even Health—for Palestinians

An honest question from a curious student brings to light Israel-Palestinian cooperation.

At the University of Maryland last week, the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), ever eager to blame Israel for anything and everything, held an event titled “Corona and Countering the Occupation.” To her surprise, Naomi Grant found that the speaker’s various perversions of the truth didn’t include libelous accusations that Israel has been deliberately spreading coronavirus among Palestinians. Indeed, the speaker was forced to admit that Israeli-Palestinian cooperation has helped curb the disease’s spread. The most telling moment came when the audience began to ask questions:

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