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\"\"<\/a>Mossad Agents Cheered 9\/11, Claims American Jewish Academic at Anti-Israel Conference in Ireland<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Joel Kovel. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A controversial conference that wrapped up in Ireland on Sunday included 9\/11 conspiracy theories, according to live-stream footage from the event.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The three-day conference in Cork \u2014 \u201cInternational Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Exceptionalism and Responsibility\u201d \u2013 featured academics from various countries, including Israel, who had gathered to call the Jewish state\u2019s right to exist into question.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the question-and-answer period of one of the panels on the third day of the event, which, as The Algemeiner reported, was held at the University College Cork (UCC), American-Jewish professor emeritus Joel Kovel, former Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies at Bard College and author of Overcoming Zionism, stated: \u201cThere are so many facts that aren\u2019t known, and then they\u2019re lost to memory. Did you know that, as the towers were burning on 9\/11\u2026the five painters who were cheering on the process from across the river\u2026were Mossad agents?! And they were arrested and disappeared from the face of the earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

David Collier of the blog The Great Divide, who attended the event, wrote that this section of Kovel\u2019s talk \u201cwill no doubt take the headlines, but in truth, his entire speech could be classified as a horrific antisemitic attack.\u201d Collier said, as well, that the audience \u201cseemed to appreciate [Kovel\u2019s] suggestion that the world is ecologically doomed unless you can remove Israel from the Middle East.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the UK\u2019s Jewish News, \u201cPalestinian academic Dr. Ghada Kharmi elsewhere provoked controversy by using a Nazi term \u2013 \u2018untermensch\u2019 (inferior people) to describe Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As The Algemeiner reported in December, upon the announcement that the conference would be held at UCC, the university said that while it would not be taking any official part in the event, it would provide space on campus for its final day.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a separate development, one of two pro-Israel speakers invited to the conference, which began March 31, backed out after learning that former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian \u200eTerritories Richard Falk \u2013 co-author of a widely criticized report released last month by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western \u200eAsia, which called Israel an apartheid regime \u2014 was invited to deliver the keynote address.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Alan Johnson, senior research fellow at the Britain Israel Communications & Research Center (BICOM), said in a statement, \u201cI had agreed to participate in an academic conference to present a paper in defense of Israel\u2019s right to exist. But by inviting a speaker who espouses antisemitic conspiracy theories the conference is now objectively an attempt to normalize antisemitism and I cannot attend such an event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInternational Law and the State of Israel\u201d was originally scheduled to take place last year at the University of Southampton in Britain, but the school rescinded its invitation after it came under a barrage of criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch footage of Kovel\u2019s remarks:\u00a0 Kovel\u2019s remarks<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mossad Agents Cheered 9\/11, Claims American Jewish Academic at Anti-Israel Conference in Ireland Ruthie Blum Joel Kovel. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A controversial conference that wrapped up in Ireland on Sunday included 9\/11 conspiracy theories, according to live-stream footage from the event. The three-day conference in Cork \u2014 \u201cInternational Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51290,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257\/revisions\/51290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}