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Al-Najah University in Nablus, which receives funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), held a symposium for its law students, faculty and administration this week, condemning the trial of Saddam Hussein and the American role in the trial. The trial was vilified as “illegal and vindictive” because “it took place during the period of the
illegal American occupation of Iraq.”
The $4 million dollars in USAID funding that Al-Najah has received since 2004 is for a current project at the university’s faculty of law “for strengthening the rule of law.”
It should be noted that even before this latest anti-American activity at the law faculty, the last two years of funding of Al-Najah University have been in violation of American law. Al-Najah hosts branches of the terror organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad on campus, and US law since 2005 has prohibited funding any “educational institution that the Secretary knows or has reason to believe advocates, plans, sponsors, engages in, or has engaged in, terrorist activity…” (Foreign Operations Bill 2006 (SEC. 559.b-c)
By sponsoring branches of terrorist organizations, Al-Najah has been ineligible to receive US funding.
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