Some quick background…
American teenager David Boim was shot and killed by a Hamas terrorist at a West Bank bus stop in 1996; U.S.-based organizations the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) were found liable for financing the act by a federal jury in 2004.
The organizations were ordered to pay Boim’s parents $156 million dollars —but never did.
Shortly after the ruling, those organizations closed up shop, only to reopen as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The new nonprofit consisted of former employees of the previous organizations and held the same annual meetings with the same featured speakers.
Five former HLF members were ultimately sentenced to decades in prison in 2008 for providing resources to Hamas. And now, according to a new bombshell report from The Washington Examiner, we know some members went on to organize campaign events for Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
From The Examiner…
“The first Tlaib campaign organizer, Rafeeq Jaber, testified during a deposition in 2003 that he served as president of the American Muslim Society and the Islamic Association for Palestine. Jaber testified that the two groups, while under his control, worked to ‘promote [Holy Land Foundation] in every way we can’ and also distributed pro-Hamas documents, including an August 2001 editorial that advocated martyrdom operations and the killing of Jewish people.”
Jaber was on the “hosting committee” for a 2018 Tlaib campaign event.
A second Tlaib campaign organizer, Salah Sarsour, raised funds for the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation —right around the time of David Boim’s murder.
“I passed money over to [Hamas militant] Adel Awdallah several times, and my brother sent money to him through me several times too,” Salah Sarsour’s brother, Jamil Sarsour, confessed to the Israeli government in December 1998, according to The Examiner.
“Israeli commandos killed Awdallah in a raid in September 1998 for allegedly planning a terrorist attack. Israeli officials found wigs and a small cache of weapons, including hand grenades and submachine guns, at the hilltop compound Awdallah was killed in,” The Examiner reports.
“The checks that my brother Salah gave me were from a (UI) bank in Milwaukee, from the business account,” Jamil Sarsour said in a confession. “We didn’t want to use personal checks from either one of us so that the government shouldn’t trace the checks back to us personally. We did it this way so we could take checks abroad and send money to Adel Awdallah.”
Congresswoman Tlaib has yet to comment on the report.
