Georgetown Platforms Stanford Professor Painting Israel as a Genocidal Society
Georgetown is set to host Stanford professor Joel Beinin, who paints Israel as a culture of "genocide" and serves as a founding advisor to allegedly PFLP-linked Middle East Children's Alliance
Stanford historian Joel Beinin is hosting an upcoming event at Georgetown University on February 17 where he plans to argue that Israel has become "the kind of society that could commit a genocide in Gaza Strip" and explore "what political/cultural resources did the justifications of the genocide draw on?”.
The event is organized through Georgetown's Arab Cultures and Middle East Politics Unit (ACMCU). What distinguishes this appearance, however, is Beinin's own deeply troubling institutional connections to organizations with documented ties to designated terrorist organizations. Beyond these ties, Beinin has an extensive history of demonizing Israel and expressing support for designated terror groups.
Ties to Alleged Terror-Linked Organizations
What Georgetown attendees may not know is that Beinin serves as a founding advisor to the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), an organization that watchdog groups have documented as having alleged extensive fiscal and personnel ties to entities associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
According to a comprehensive counter-terrorism brief published in April 2025 by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), MECA’s director of Gaza programming, Dr. Mona al-Farra, previously served as deputy director of the Union of Healthcare Worker Committees (UHWC), an organization recognized as early as 1993 by USAID as a PFLP front organization. The NCRI brief documents that al-Farra has retained close ties over two decades to PFLP-linked organizations and international leaders, including facilitation of a meeting between MECA founder Barbara Lubin and PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled in Gaza in 2012.
The NCRI investigation found that MECA has made direct grants to entities with documented ties to the PFLP, including the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), the Union of Health Workers Committees (UHWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC). Following the designation of UAWC and UPWC by the Israeli government in 2021 for terror financing connections, the Netherlands also cut funding to UAWC after discovering significant membership overlap with known PFLP operatives.
Radical Curriculum Infiltrating American Schools
More troublingly, the NCRI investigation revealed that MECA has leveraged its nonprofit status to penetrate the U.S. public education system through its development of curriculum materials via the Teach Palestine project. These materials are now taught in K-12 classrooms nationwide, adopted by Rethinking Schools and distributed through the Zinn Education Project, which claims it has registered over 176,000 teachers worldwide.
According to a Foundation for Defense of Democracies analysis, the Teach Palestine curriculum whitewashes Hamas by rebranding terrorism as “resistance” and teaches students a distorted narrative of events.
Beinin's Leadership in Alleged Terror Linked Organizations & Textbook Influence
Beinin is a founding member of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a pro-Palestine organization that claims to represent Jewish values. However, a comprehensive January 2025 report by StandWithUs documented that "JVP has campaigned in support of PFLP terrorists, hosted PFLP members at events, and partnered with groups that openly support PFLP and other terrorist organizations." The report specifically highlighted JVP's collaboration with Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. and Canada for funding terrorism and serving as a sham charity for the PFLP.
According to Canary Mission, during Beinin’s leadership as president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) from 2000-2002, high school textbooks in numerous U.S. states were changed to include classroom “exercises” that placed students in roles of “advantaged” Jews against “disadvantaged” Palestinian Arabs.
Anyone else notice that the Teach Palestine photo of “youth resistance” features two blond and light-skinned “Palestinian” children threatening an amused group of dark skinned /Asian and very obviously people of color Israeli soldiers?
So much for the white European colonizer antizionist libel. An outright lie, just like the rest of the Palestinianism fraud narrative.