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This webinar was generously sponsored by Donna Gary in loving memory of Beverly Gary

On October 7th, Israel experienced the most barbaric display of sadistic savagery since the days of the Holocaust, resulting in the death of at least 1200 people and the hostage-taking of 240 innocent civilians. Yet, by October 8th Students for Justice in Palestine were in full gear, in support of the Hamas terrorist attacks. Who is behind Students for Justice in Palestine? How have they been so effective in convincing our students about the justness of such brutality? How can this be fixed, so that our society does not become complacent to such acts of terrorism and savagery?

Here to answer these questions are Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh.

About the Speakers:

Daniel Diker is the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a public diplomacy and research institute in Jerusalem, Israel. Dan was born in New York. He earned a BA cum laude from Harvard University and pursued his MBA at the Harvard Graduate School of Business before receiving an MA in government, counter-terrorism and homeland security studies, summa cum laude, from Reichman University in Israel. His dissertation on the Palestinian National Movement and the West was under the supervision of Professor Christian Kaunert, Department of Security Studies at the University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.

Khaled Abu Toameh (Arabic: خالد أبو طعمة, Hebrew: חאלד אבו טועמה; born 1963) is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs an Israeli Arab journalist, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker.

Abu Toameh has written for JNS, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, and for the New York–based Gatestone Institute, where he is a senior distinguished fellow. He has been a producer and consultant for NBC News since 1989. His articles have also appeared in numerous newspapers around the world.

Khaled Abu Toameh was born to an Israeli Arab father and a Palestinian Arab mother. He grew up in the Arab-Israeli town Baqa al-Gharbiyye. He received a B.A. in English literature from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem.