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Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill asked Twitter to “[s]how me proof of any moment in history when Palestinian leadership argued on religious grounds”:
Palestine/Israel is not a religious conflict. There are Palestinian Jews and Christians, sir. And this issue doesn’t begin in biblical times. It begins in the late 19th century. https://t.co/bF8Yb1fLnx
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) May 14, 2018
Dude you know thats not true. What are both sides arguments with respect to their rights to that land? And are you really saying that because 1-2-% of Palestinians are Christian that means this conflict isn’t religious?? https://t.co/GByLJ8ANlK
— Matt White (@mattw5947) May 14, 2018
Show me proof of any moment in history when Palestinian leadership argued on religious grounds. https://t.co/u19kAWc7QR
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) May 14, 2018
Chaser…
It’s in the first line of the Hamas charter:
Well, you could start with Hamas charter which begins with the words "In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah" https://t.co/cueMd6udNm
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 15, 2018
Hamas charter intro: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory)." https://t.co/cueMd6udNm
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 15, 2018
There are other examples, too:
"Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.” —Yasser Arafat (Voice of Palestine, Algiers, 2 September 1993).
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 15, 2018
Was he really serious about this?
Oh my God. Are you….he's serious. https://t.co/2mamqnQ9QE
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) May 15, 2018
The unbelievable ignorance in this statement is truly something to behold. https://t.co/3UJJAdrdBI
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) May 15, 2018
Over to you, Temple:
This man is a university professor, and apparently doesn’t know about Hamas https://t.co/ej1z39OLm3
— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) May 15, 2018
A professor at #TempleUniversity is this monumentally ignorant https://t.co/BBuNfv6vsZ
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) May 15, 2018
Hill isn’t backing down, however, tweeting “But desiring an Islamic nation is not the same as appealing to religion as the legitimizing source, as opposed to international law, convention, etc.”:
I’m getting hit with a ridiculous number of tweets about this so let me reiterate: the Palestine/Israel conflict is NOT a religious one. It never has been.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) May 15, 2018
The Palestinian case for self-determination and freedom has not historically been made by appeals to Islamic law, scripture, or practice. And again, all Palestinians are not Muslim.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) May 15, 2018
Hamas has absolutely made its religious aspirations clear. This isn’t in dispute. But desiring an Islamic nation is not the same as appealing to religion as the legitimizing source, as opposed to international law, convention, etc.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) May 15, 2018
That … makes no sense.
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