The Islamic University of Gaza is a known greenhouse and breeding ground for
Hamas terrorists. Only last month, the University’s Dean of Koranic studies
openly called for the Islamic conquest of the Vatican and of
Spain

UNESCO’s motto is that “It is in the minds of men that the
defenses of peace must be constructed,” yet the Islamic University of Gaza is
poisoning the minds of men for the cause of terror.

Scientists and Academics at the University double as Hamas technocrats. The
Islamic University serves as an employment program and intellectual retreat for
Hamas leaders. The University conducts lectures on Hamas’ radical ideology and
concentrates on hostility to Israel; Hamas uses Gaza University laboratories to
develop and produce explosives and rockets and has even run a course on
explosive making. The university is a warehouse for weapons and a venue for
secret meetings of military leaders.

UNESCO continues to damage its reputation. After establishing the Obiang
prize, UNESCO is now establishing a chair linked to a terror organization.

Hamas and the Islamic University believe in extremism, violence and terror -
not Education, Science and Culture. That UNESCO should choose to establish a
chair in such a University damages further UNESCO’s reputation and it creates
uncomfortable and inappropriate bedfellows.