UCLA professor and father of Daniel Pearl condemns university event hosting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lawyer

A top UCLA professor has torn into the college for hosting, during its 9/11 events this week, the lawyer who represented the jihadist who executed his son.Judea Pearl, 90, said the platforming of Melanie T.Partow made him “ashamed of my university” as he accused it of “weaponizing” the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks.His son Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was decapitated by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Pakistan in 2002 after being lured there for a supposed interview with an Islamic scholar.

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By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Never miss a story A twisted video of his murder was released at the time, with Daniel Pearl saying he was from California and his family was Jewish before he was beheaded.The California Post revealed Wednesday that UCLA was hosting Partow as well as a controversial Yale professor who called post-9/11 counterterrorism “racist.”It sparked fury, with survivors and heroes who attended the scene of the terror attacks tearing into the college for “pointing fingers at the victims.”Pearl, who teaches at UCLA’s Samueli School of Engineering, told The Post: “Colleagues inform me that, sadly, UCLA Law School is guilty of such practice: Weaponizing the painful days of 9/11 and 10/7 to promote hateful ideologies.”He added: “Having lost a son to such an ideology, I stand ashamed of my university.”The UCLA symposium, titled, “25 Years After 9/11: Reimagining Freedom, Justice, and Security,” will feature Partow during the two-day open event on Thursday and Friday.Partow is one of the defense lawyers for Mohammed, a terrorist who previously boasted about beheading Daniel Pearl following the kidnapping at a restaurant in Karachi in early 2002.He believed he was interviewing an Islamic scholar.According to a trans...