As first reported by The Duke Chronicle, Eid, a Palestinian native and chairman of The Center for Near East Policy Research, was invited to the university by Students Supporting Israel (SSI), which last year survived an attempted cancellation that began when former Duke Student Government (DSG) president Christina Wang vetoed legislation to grant the club official recognition.During the event at Zener Auditorium, Eid accused progressive organizations, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), of leveraging the Palestinian plight to aggrandize and enrich themselves, charging that “they are using us.”“Those people live in their warm houses, you know, in Virginia, Los Angeles, in the UK, and they have no problem from time to time to give a speech on behalf of Palestinians,” he said.If the Israeli-Palestine conflict is solved, all of the BDS members will be jobless and refugees.”Eid also said that BDS’s campaigns to pressure Israeli companies into leaving the West Bank have deprived Palestinians of much needed economic growth.“Several factories in Israel have been closed, thousands of Palestinians have been thrown out from their job.”Eid’s talk at Duke was the third for a speaking tour that began earlier this month.“We’re not here to you know, like throw shade at people…we’re really just looking — and it’s funny to say this — to like coexist on campus.”Listenberg added that SSI does not “want people to be afraid of us just because we have Israel in our name.”"