Palestinians slam prominent Egyptian scholar over 'normalisation' with Israel

Palestinian students at Tel Aviv University staged a walkout and heckled an Egyptian-American lecturer, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, in protest against what they described as “normalisation with Israel.”

A footage video showing the enraged students has been circulated across social media platforms.

“What you are doing is shameful,” the students said, adding “this is called normalisation and you are a traitor, traitor, traitor.”

“Long live the Palestinian people and long live the people of Egypt,” other students chimed, adding “shame on you, you bastard.”

“You gave up on your nationalism, you traitor. You’re working for normalisation and are selling out the Egyptian people and the entire Arab world,” students criticised Ibrahim, as quoted by Ynet News. “It’s a disgrace. The people of Egypt renounce you and people like you.”

This stinking researcher came here to speak about normalisation with Israel

Ibrahim, Director of Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and one of Egypt’s leading human rights and democracy activists and researchers, was lecturing on how to preserve Israeli-Egyptian relations.

Two years ago, a group of Arab students stood up and left a lecture that was delivered by the Egyptian researcher Omar Salem at Israel’s Haifa University, accusing him of “cooperating with Zionists.”

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