Hassan Diab, sentenced to life in jail for a terror assault in France, will educate a course on social justice
Canada’s prestigious Carleton College has employed a convicted terrorist to show a course on “social justice in motion,” the Jerusalem Submit reported on Monday. Hassan Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian, denies any involvement in an assault on a French synagogue 44 years in the past, and Carleton College has stood by his model of occasions.
Diab, 70, was convicted and given a life sentence in absentia by a French courtroom in 2023 for his function in an explosion on the Rue Copernic reform synagogue in Paris in 1980. A bomb planted within the facet bag of a bike went off exterior the doorway, killing 4 folks and leaving 46 wounded.
French authorities accuse Diab of planting the bomb whereas 320 worshipers had gathered to mark the top of a Jewish vacation. Israeli TV presenter Aliza Shagrir and three different bystanders had been killed within the atrocity.
In 2014, Diab was extradited to France and spent two years in jail, however a decide allowed him to be launched on home arrest. Diab escaped to Canada the identical day, the Submit reported. French authorities consider Diab was a member of the Standard Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), however he claims they confused him with one other particular person.
Diab was first employed to show a sociology course at Carleton College in 2009. Not lengthy afterwards, his contract was terminated and he was changed. Nevertheless, Diab is now set to show a course on “social justice in motion,” the Submit stated.
Carleton College maintains that Diab was “unjustly accused” and that there’s “a lot proof that factors away from his involvement.” The establishment has held rallies demanding that the Canadian authorities shield Diab from “from additional Injustice.”
B’nai Brith, a Jewish civil rights group, has stated the college’s choice to disregard its formal request to terminate Diab’s place was “deeply disturbing.”
Following Diab’s conviction in 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated his authorities would “look fastidiously at subsequent steps” and can “all the time be there to face up for Canadians and their rights.”
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