WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Jewish students at Wake Forest University say allowing a speaker known for antisemitic rhetoric to speak on campus is a gut punch. Especially since it’s scheduled for Oct. 7, exactly a year after Hamas, a terrorist organization launched an attack on Israel killing nearly 12 hundred people and kidnapping hundreds of others.
The speaker, Rabab Abdulhadi, is a professor at San Francisco State University.
Students at Wake Forest say the speech should be canceled.
“We support free speech, we encourage the university to host people with a variety of different viewpoints, to share different perspectives, encourage and foster dialogue on our campus. However about a week ago they put up posters for this event with antisemitic and pro-terrorist language,” said Isabelle Laxer, president of the WFU Chabad student organization.
Laxer and four other Jewish Wake Forest University students came together to advocate against Abdulhadi coming to campus to speak after seeing this poster: