I have previously noted how Rashida Tlaib has not said anything about the Hamas massacre of civilians and has even repeated the propaganda of Hamas’ Gazan Ministry of Health.
In fact, it was even worse than that; as watchdog group Canary Mission noticed, she released a statement condemning Israel for Hamas’ war crimes, referring to it as “resistance:
This is just another reason I have referred to her and her fellow Squad members as the Hamas Caucus in Congress.
It turns out she is more connected to Hamas than previously thought.
Yesterday, Canary Mission came out with a bombshell report exposing Rashida Tlaib’s extensive fundraising ties to supporters of Hamas and other terror groups.
Salah Sarsour
As I have previously posted, Salah Sarsour fundraised for the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), an organization that was shut down and its members convicted in the US for funneling over $12 million to US-designated terror organization Hamas. Canary Mission adds:
According to a 2001 FBI memorandum [p. 49], Sarsour played an active role in raising funds for Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), which was intended “actually for Hamas.” IAP helped raise money for Hamas, as detailed below, and the HLF was found guilty in a federal criminal trial of funneling funds to the terror group Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid.
Salah Sarsour was listed on an official Tlaib campaign flyer as being the lead organizer of the event, even giving out his personal phone number as a contact:
At the event itself, Tlaib and Sarsour took multiple photos together:
Sarsour was also the Chairman of American Muslims for Palestine’s (AMP) Palestine Convention 2019, for which Tlaib was the keynote speaker:
Rafeeq Jaber
Another AMP bigwig (he’s the co-founder) as well as co-founder of CAIR, Rafeeq Jaber co-hosted a Tlaib fundraiser in July 2018:
As Canary Mission reveals:
In 2003, Jaber testified that he directed two Hamas front groups in the U.S. to “promote [the Holy Land Foundation] in every way we can” and to distribute Hamas propaganda materials, including an August 2001 editorial that advocated martyrdom operations and the killing of Jewish people.
At the time, he was reportedly president of the IAP and the American Muslim Society (AMS). According to a court document, AMS was “d/b/a [doing business as ] the Islamic Association for Palestine in Chicago.”
IAP and AMS published and distributed pro-Hamas documents in America. According to U.S. government prosecutors [p. 30], IAP served as “the media arm of Hamas in America” and played [p. 5] a central role in disseminating Hamas propaganda “intended to continue to promote and move forward Hamas’s agenda of the destruction of the State of Israel and establishment of an Islamic state in its place.”
IAP and AMS also directly contributed funds to HLF and encouraged its supporters to donate to the Hamas-linked organization. IAP’s logo was featured on the publication of Hamas’s charter.
Besides fundraising for Rashida Tlaib, Jaber has helped with Ilhan Omar fundraising campaigns:
Abdelbaset Hamayel
Abdelbaset Hamayel, a member of the Steering Committee for AMP’s Palestine Convention, was a co-host of the same Tlaib fundraiser as Rafeeq Jaber:
As I posted in 2018, Abdelbaset Hamayel, was the Director and Secretary General of the Islamic Association for Palestine, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case and described as Hamas’ public relations arm in the US.
Canary Mission adds:
He worked in senior positions for two Hamas-linked organizations in the U.S. that are now defunct. He has also held senior positions [p.13] in AMP.
Hamayel reportedly served as the “representative” in Illinois and Wisconsin for KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development (KindHearts). The group was dissolved in 2011 after the U.S. Department of the Treasury discovered that it was funneling funds to Hamas.
As of November 18, 2001, Hamayel was reportedly the Executive Director and Secretary General of the IAP.
IAP’s publication, Al-Zaytouna magazine: “focused on Palestinian issues with an emphasis on support for Hamas.” Al-Zaytouna magazine allegedly contained at least one article encouraging readers to donate [p.30] funds to HLF.
IAP was alleged to be one of four central organizations founded in the U.S. with the mandate to support Hamas, with varying missions calculated to address Hamas’s needs comprehensively.
Hamayel’s Facebook profile contains troubling posts, including this one featuring the R4BIA hand gesture used by the Muslim Brotherhood:
and this one in support of deceased Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Khader Adnan:
Maher Abdelqader And The Palestinian American Congress/USA (PAC-USA)
Canary Mission reveals another troubling Tlaib fundraising connection to Hamas: her close confidant Maher Abdelqader, who served as Chairman of the Finance Committee for Rashida Tlaib for Congress in 2018:
According to Canary Mission, Abdelqader created and administered the now-deleted Facebook group The Palestinian American Congress/USA (PAC-USA) in 2010, which at one point had over 12,000 members, including Tlaib. Abdelqader used his PAC-USA page to promote no fewer than twelve fundraisers for Tlaib in 8 states. He solicited campaign donations, gave fundraising updates and posted campaign photos throughout 2018.
But that is not all he used the page for.
Besides using PAC-USA to spread antisemitism (including neo-Nazi propaganda posts honoring white supremacist leader David Duke), Abdelqader used it also as a repository for hatred of the U.S., and its ally Israel. Naturally, this included support for multiple palestinian Arab terrorist, including Hamas.
Bear in mind that Tlaib interacted with PAC-USA at least 18 times during the 2018 campaign. During this time, Abdelqader continued to post both antisemitic and pro-terror content to the page, including ones explicitly calling for the expulsion of Jews from Israel. So it is possible she was aware of at least some of this content.
Black4Palestine
Canary Mission’s report also contains the bombshell revelation that in 2015, Tlaib co-founded pro-terror, anti-American, anti-Israel activist group Black4Palestine [Black For Palestine] with Kristian Davis Bailey. As Canary Mission details:
Black4Palestine has shown support for Hamas members, as well as other terrorists. The group has posted online more than 100 times in support of terrorists.
The group has expressed support for leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an armed Marxist-Leninist group that is listed as a Foreign Terror Organization (FTO) by the U.S. government.
Co-founder, Bailey, is an anti-Israel activist who has conducted activism with leaders of the PFLP who are part of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun), an anti-Israel NGO designated as a terror entity by the Israeli government in 2021 for being an agent of the PFLP. Samidoun’s three senior activists – Khaled Barakat, Mustapha Awad and Mohammed Khatib – are PFLP members [pp. 22-25].
Bailey has engaged in anti-Israel activism with Barakat and Khatib on multiple occasions through Samidoun.
On September 1, 2016, after Bailey visited Brussels and met with Barakat and Khatib [back row, third and fourth from right] that July, Black4Palestine posted a Facebook video of Khatib arguing [00:05:32] that social and ethnic divisions should be exploited in America and Israel to destroy them from the inside because they cannot be defeated militarily, although he did endorse terrorism against Israel.
Black4Palestine has honored the violent separatist Black Liberation Army (BLA), spread hatred of America, including promoting calls [00:05:33] for America’s “defeat.” It has also spread hatred of Israel including calling for Israel’s destruction.
