BGU Honorary Doctorate Nas Daily at JPost Conference
BGU Honorary Doctorate Nas Daily at JPost Conference
May 23, 2025
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Nas Daily (Nuseir Yassin) speaking at the 55th Board of Governors Meeting
The Jerusalem Post — In a candid one-on-one conversation at The Jerusalem Post Annual New York Conference, Nas Daily founder Nuseir Yassin, an Arab Israeli social media influencer with over 70 million followers, shared insights on identity, coexistence, and the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to reshape public perception and combat antisemitism.
Yassin became the youngest person to ever receive an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), a milestone he called a testament to the power of integration. “The youngest honorary doctor in Israel is an Arab Israeli. That’s what happens if we try to live together,” he said.
Born in Israel to a Muslim family and now living in New York, he reflected on his upbringing and his path toward becoming a global media personality. “I’m one of two million non-Jewish people in Israel,” he said. “I lived there for 20 years before heading to the US for college. I have no other country. Introducing Israel to the world has become the job I was born for.”
Yassin emphasized the need for deeper Jewish-Arab integration within Israel, noting that he grew up in an entirely Arab school with no Jewish classmates. “It makes no sense that only part of the population goes to the army,” he added. “We should all participate in the country we’re born in.”
Asked whether AI could help combat antisemitism, Yassin turned his focus to Arabic-language media, singling out Al Jazeera as a key contributor to antisemitic rhetoric. “Now, with AI, you can create unlimited videos in Arabic – AI presenters, AI scripts. Someone needs to do this. That’s the opportunity.”
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