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IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS WENT ON SPRING BREAK TO PALESTINE — THEN ‘TARGETED ISRAELIS
ON CAMPUS’

By Isabel Vincent

Published Nov. 3, 2023, 5:34 p.m. ET

Ivy League university students who participated in spring break trips to
Palestine organized by a New York non-profit returned to their college campuses
then set up anti-Israel groups that have targeted Jewish students and celebrated
the Hamas massacre of Israelis.


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Many of the students who participated in a Palestine Trek trip over spring break
this year returned to Harvard University to set up Graduate Students 4 Palestine
(GS4P) a month later, according to the Harvard Crimson.

The student group was one of the organizers of the recent pro-Palestinian
demonstrations at the elite school.

One of the founders of GS4P, Elon Tettey-Temalko, a graduate student at Harvard
Divinity School was filmed this week allegedly assaulting an Israeli Harvard
Business School student who was filming a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

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Tettey-Temalko is under investigation by campus police and the FBI, according to
a report in the Washington Free Beacon. Neither Harvard nor Tettey-Temalko
returned The Post’s requests for comment Friday.

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Harvard Divinity School student Tettey-Temalko (right) allegedly assaulted an
Israeli business student at a Harvard protest this week, in video footage shared
by Jewish group Canary Mission.@canarymission/X
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This was Tettey-Tamoko during a trip to Palestine in 2020. He is reported to be
under investigation by the FBI.pym.org

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Elom Tettey-Temalko is a founder of Harvard’s Graduates 4 Palestine, founded a
month after a PalTrek trip to Palestine this year. He previously had a summer
internship at the Carter Center and posed with former President Carter and his
wife Rosalynn.Carter Center

Tettey-Temalko is also a proctor, a staff member who advises undergraduates and
lives in their dorm.

More than 170 Harvard graduate students took part in the PalTrek trip this year,
according to a post on the Harvard Law School’s web site, inviting students to a
“share-back” in April.

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“Come join PalTrek’s Bear Witness share-back session to learn about what they
saw while in occupied Palestine, how it affected them, and how their experiences
connect to the broader struggle for Palestinian liberation,” the post said.

Some students said they felt “a new sense of urgency” for helping Palestinians
after their week-long tour, of refugee camps and meetings with politicians and
human rights activists in the area. The cost of the trips was $1,400 per person,
according to a travel website.

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Tettey-Temalko was taking part in a “mass die in” on October 27 when the alleged
attack on an Israeli student happened.@harvardpsc/Instagram

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“Coming back after PalTrek there’s been a renewed sense of urgency around
organizing around Palestine,” Maya R.F. Alper, a student at the Harvard Kennedy
School told the Crimson in April.

“The opportunity to be in Palestine, to hear from Palestinians in their own
home, on their own terms, in their own words about their story was incredibly
powerful for me , and so I felt that call to relay more stories really
urgently.”

At the University of Virginia, PalTrek participant Catie Haddad urged her fellow
students “to become violently aware of the subjugation that terrorizes
Palestinians and the ways in which they resist it,” in an April article for the
Virginia Law Weekly, a student paper.

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Berkeley Law students on a PalTrek trip to Palestine. The New York non-profit
has been organizing the trips since 2019.Berkeley Law

PalTrek was set up in 2018 and is based out of an apartment on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan, according to its most recently available tax filings to the
IRS. Its website says it is “Bearing Witness to Human Rights Abuses in
Palestine.”

The group reported donations of $135, 571 in 2019, according to the filings.
It’s not clear who finances the group but a 2019 tax form reviewed by The Post
said that the trips are organized by PalTrek in conjunction with “top-tier
graduate programs,” which it did not name.

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“Each designed and ran a customized trek to Palestine with our guidance and
support,” according to the tax filing.

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Zena Agha is one of the founding board members of PalTrek, whose offices are
located in a residential building on the Upper East Side.

Among PalTrek’s four board members is Rande Wahbe, a PhD candidate in
anthropology at Harvard and Zena Agha, an Iraqi-Palestinian writer who completed
her masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.

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In 2019, both women organized a “teach-in” on the “Ongoing Nakba in Palestine”
at the People’s Forum, a New York non-profit that helped organize the All Out
for Palestine rally in Times Square a day after the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.

“Nakba,” meaning catastrophe, refers to the displacement of about 700,000
Palestinians as Israel became independent in 1948.

Wahbe, who is listed as president of PalTrek, did not respond to a request for
comment Friday.

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Randa Wahbe is one of the founding board members of PalTrek. She is also a PhD
candidate in anthropology at Harvard.The People's Forum
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The inaugural PalTrek trip organized by the group took place in 2019 with 11
students from Columbia University.

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“Our trip started with an orientation day in Jerusalem, where students received
a tour of the Old City and were first exposed to the realities of the
Occupation,” said a post on PalTrek’s website.

“From there, we spent the vast majority of their time in the Occupied West Bank,
volunteering with Palestinian human rights organizations and meeting
Palestinians from all walks of life.”

PalTrek was organized in response to itrek, a New York non-profit that has been
organizing trips for graduate students to Israel since 2012 in order to “educate
a generation of leaders about Israel’s values and global contributions.”

“Trips like itrek offer vacations in Palestine/Israel to foreign students, while
Palestinian refugees are barred from returning to their homes within the same
area,” said the Columbia Law post.


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