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The complaint detailed and damning accuses Masri s firms, PADICO and Massar International, of knowingly facilitating Hamas s military build-up. According to the suit, facilities developed by Masri including the Gaza Industrial Estate and two luxury hotels were used to conceal terror tunnels and rocket launch platforms. These developments, in part funded by Western aid, allegedly served as camouflage for the very operations that culminated in the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Over 1,200 people were killed, including more than 40 U.S. citizens.

Masri, a naturalized U.S. citizen, has long been celebrated as a model of Palestinian entrepreneurship. His flagship initiative, Rawabi a gleaming master-planned city in the West Bank earned praise from diplomats and business leaders alike. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once hailed it as the future of Palestine. Masri was lauded in the West as the kind of Palestinian leader the peace process needed: urbane, ambitious, and committed to economic growth.

What now emerges is a deeply unsettling counter-narrative: that behind the façades of progress and statecraft may have been the concealed infrastructure of war.

Masri denies the allegations. His legal team insists he has spent decades promoting peaceful development and economic uplift, not violence. Yet what is not in dispute is that, until last week, he held an advisory role at one of the world s most prestigious public policy schools. If even a portion of the plaintiffs claims are substantiated, then Harvard and the broader elite academic ecosystem must contend with the possibility that they conferred prestige and legitimacy on a man allegedly complicit in building the architecture of terrorism.

via spectator.org

I don’t know whether it’s true, but I don’t doubt it.

Kevin Cohen.