Mick Hartley

Following on from Iran's Shiraz University in their invitation to protesting US students, it's now the turn of those nice Houthis:

Pro-Palestinian protesters who have taken over US campuses this week have been invited by the Houthis to study in Yemen’s Sana’a University

Sana’a University, which is run by the Iran-backed Houthis, issued a statement on Friday applauding the “humanitarian” position of students in the US who have occupied university campuses.

The statement included an email address for any students who wished to enquire about transferring.

“We are serious about welcoming students that have been suspended from US universities for supporting Palestinians,” an official at Sana’a University said.

“We are fighting this battle with Palestine in every way we can,” the official added.

You might think that invitations and support from two of the most repressive regimes in the world – where gays are hung, women are veiled, and Islamic jihad by sword is the ideology – might cause a momentary flicker of doubt with the anti-Israel campus activists as to whether they really are quite the progressives they like to think. Considering the chants we've heard about the Houthis "decolonising" the Red Sea, though, and the "heroics" of Hamas for raping and killing Israelis, the level of delusion would seem to be way too strong for any such critical thinking.