In recent years, several Western universities and student unions have “twinned” with An-Najah, sponsoring joint programs and visits by faculty and students.

The list includes McGill University in Canada; the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany; the University of Abertay in Dundee, England; the University of Naples Federico in Italy; Norway’s Stavanger University; and student unions at three British universities—the University of Essex, the University of Manchester, and the London School of Economics.

What motivates Western universities to seek relationships with an institution that tolerates support for terrorism? Why haven’t any of them threatened to sever ties with An-Najah unless it shuts down Fatah Shabiba?

Perhaps the answer may be found in the history of American universities twinning with schools in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

[I’d give the 1930s schools the benefit of the doubt when it came to being naive as to what the Nazis were doing. Today’s schools deserve no such benefit. Everyone knows full well what Hamas does and after 10/7 how they will go about their genocidal ambitions. Partnering or ‘twinning’ with such schools speaks volumes about the values and principles in vogue within Academia now. — Ed]