Georgetown University scrubbed online evidence it enrolled a former Hamas official and daughter of a terrorist leader after a watchdog group’s inquiry.
The Washington, D.C., school wiped the profile of graduate student Mapheze Saleh, who worked for Hamas’s foreign ministry, from its website when the pro-Israel group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) contacted it about her terrorist ties, the group wrote Thursday. The revelation comes days after Georgetown began investigating anti-Israel students who alarmed the public by inviting a convicted terrorist to campus.
“Through her professional experiences, Mapheze has developed an expertise in regional and international relations with an emphasis on conflict resolution and security studies, and also solidified her commitment to public discourse and cross-cultural communication,” reads Georgetown’s deleted profile of Saleh. It acknowledges she has worked for “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza” controlled by the Hamas terrorist group that ignited war with Israel in October 2023 by slaughtering more than 1,100 people, raping women en masse and taking hostages.
Saleh has disclosed publicly that she is the daughter of “senior adviser to the Hamas Foreign Ministry” Ahmed Yousef, according to CAMERA’s report, which cited Arabic media translations and Saleh’s social media posts.
Saleh did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Since the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, [Saleh’s] social-media profiles have glorified Hamas and its acts of terror while belittling the experience of Israeli civilians held hostage,” CAMERA wrote. The group documented other posts in which Saleh reportedly said “America is the plague.”
A Georgetown University graduate student glorifies Hamas’s terrorist attacks against Israel in an Oct. 12, 2023 Facebook post. (Screenshot/Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis)
Saleh, whose name has multiple translations, is a “first-year” student at Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in Washington, D.C., set to finish her graduate program in 2026, the deleted webpage says. She previously studied at the Islamic University of Gaza and India’s Jamia Millia Islamia and was a researcher for the Qatari government in India.
Georgetown did not immediately respond to an inquiry about whether it was aware of Saleh’s terrorist ties when admitting her, whether she attends in-person and whether she is a teaching assistant for any Georgetown classes.
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