Sunday, October 25, 2026
Elder of ZiyonThree gunmen killed eight churchgoers an injured dozens more during a funeral at a church in Karak, Jordan on Friday.
The terrorists have not been caught, so the motives are not yet known, although ISIS and Al Qaeda have both been blamed for other attacks on Christians in the past couple of decades.
Bu one British Palestinian writer who regards himself as a particularly clear thinker knows who is really behind it.
Professor. Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool, himself a Christian, writes in Rai Al Youm about "The Karak Church Massacre and the Geopolitical Plot!"
As a son of the Arab nation (and one who chooses to intervene politically on selected topics), I observe what is happening from a distance that sometimes allows me to be close and sometimes keeps me far enough to remain clear-headed, using my cold scientific tools and presenting my analysis according to the occasion and the form of the piece....As scholars of radical extremism, fanaticism, and terrorism, we do not need a “source” to supply us with “information” confirming the involvement of the intelligence services of a neighboring state (or more) in this savage attack that targeted Jordan as a whole. Even if such a source agreed with what we are saying, it would not announce it, so as not to open a diplomatic crisis.It is true that the massacre directly targeted Arab Christian mourners, but it is broader than that and falls within the geopolitical scheme that aims to empty the Mashriq of its indigenous Eastern Arab Christian component, so that the criminal Netanyahu can more easily portray the conflict as a religious one between “civilized Judaism” and “backward and violent Islam.”The massacre falls within a project aimed at destabilizing Jordan, as previously happened in Karak in 2016 when ISIS claimed an attack there.Just as happened in Iraq and Syria over the past two decades, where Christians were killed and displaced according to a broader scheme—this applies to Jordan today. The massacre in Jordan is one of the drawers in the plunderous settlement schemes in Hebron Governorate.A savage crime of this type cannot be committed without being part of a “Zionist-ISIS” project or a specific, broader external direction.
Who is this clown?
Well, besides describing himself as possessing amazing scientific tools, he also emphasizes on his X and LinkedIn profiles that he is a "PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL."
Anyone who needs to tell people that they are an intellectual is not confident enough in their writings to think that people would come to that conclusion themselves.
Of course, Khoury-Machool described October 7 as "heroic." And it only took him two days to describe Israel's response as "genocide."
Khoury-Machool is also the founder of the Cambridge Center for Palestine Studies. This gets really interesting.
The CCPS is not associated with Cambridge University. It was established in 2015 yet its webpage lists no papers, no research, no journal, nothing. Its list of activities is a list of things it plans to do, nothing that it did. It lists 28 "research clusters," all of which are empty. The entry for its "Library" says that researchers have (partial!) access to the library at Cambridge University.
However, it has a lot of boards! A Board of Patrons, Distinguished Diplomatic Board, Senior Academic Advisory Board, Academic Advisory Board, Senior Board of Practitioners, Board of Practitioners. Many prominent names there, including Richard Falk, Hanan Ashrawi and Joseph Massad.
So here's the scam: Khoury-Machool offers to these people a board set at the prestigious sounding Cambridge Center for Palestine Studies. They ask, what do they have to do? How often do they meet? What are their responsibilities? He answers, "Nothing at all! Just let me use your name and you can use the position title in your bio!"
Every once in a while the CPS organizes a lecture in a room at some university, and pretends that this means it is associated with the university. (By that logic, I am associated with Yeshiva University and Bar-Ilan University because I've given speeches at both places when students got me a room.)
Every once in a while the CPS organizes a lecture in a room at some university, and pretends that this means it is associated with the university. (By that logic, I am associated with Yeshiva University and Bar-Ilan University because I've given speeches at both places when students got me a room.)
In other words, this "public intellectual" is a scammer, raising funds for a research center that has done no published research in the decade of its existence.
I wonder how many other "research centers" are similar scams.
