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Mornin frenz
>Mornin' Ralph… Please pass the Covfefe.
Made it! First week back after time off is always long
Terrorist at Northwestern Protest.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
Today, @LoomerUnleashed
correspondent @anjewla90
, went inside the @NorthwesternU
pro-Hamas encampment in Chicago, Illinois and found the leader of @uspcn
(United States Community Palestinian Network), Hatem Abudayyeh, amongst the protesters.
I previously reported on Hatem in October, and discovered that he was under investigation by the @FBI
forhis links to Hamas and the PLFP. He also had his bank accounts frozen in 2011 due to this investigation.
When @anjewla90
spotted him, she immediately decided to ask Hatem about his associations to designated terrorist organizations.
Hatem Abudayyeh, upon hearing my name, became irate and stated calling me and my correspondent a “racist”, “Zionist pigs”, and “dumb white bitches.”
When further asked about his links to designated Islamic terrorist organizations, Hatem responded by not denying these links, but by asking “designated by who”?
@anjewla90
reminded him that the United States government designated Hamas and the PFLP as terrorist organizations, and that he was standing on United States Soil.
Hatem threatened her multiple times and became aggressive, telling @anjewla90
to not step any closer to him.
She was then assaulted by the co-chair of USPCN, Husam Marajda. He grabbed her, grabbed her phone, and then threw it into a bush, which can be seen on video.
The gentleman @anjewla90
was with is a CHRISTIAN, and he was also assaulted by some of the pro HAMAS “free Palestine” protesters in the encampment.
You can see in the video he is grabbed and shoved around. The protesters then formed a human chain around him and everyone in the camp started to chant “Zionists aren’t welcome. Zionists go home.”
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https://politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2011/05/bank-freezes-account-of-arab-american-activist-who-visited-white-house-035712
https://loomered.com/2023/10/24/exclusive-obama-tied-hamas-proxy-hatem-abudayyeh-in-charge-of-pro-hamas-counterprotests-throughout-the-chicagoland-area/
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>https://politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2011/05/bank-freezes-account-of-arab-american-activist-who-visited-white-house-035712
Bank freezes account of Arab-American activist who visited White House
By JOSH GERSTEIN
05/10/2011 12:32 PM EDT
A Palestinian-American activist who attended an official outreach meeting at the White House last year had his bank account frozen last week, according to his lawyers.
Hatem Abudayyeh, who serves as executive director of the Chicago-based Arab-American Action Network, found himself unable to make ATM withdrawals on Friday and was told by bank officials that his account was frozen, his attorneys said. An account belonging solely to Abudayyeh's wife, Naima, was also frozen, the lawyers said.
"This is usually done with some Islamic charity, not with an individual who has bills to pay and needs money to live," said Michael Deutsch, one of the attorneys. "This is really outrageous."
"He had about $5,000 in the account," said one of Abudayyeh's lawyers, Jim Fennerty.
Abudayyeh has been publicly known as a focus of a federal investigation into alleged support of terrorist organizations since last September, when his Chicago home was raided by the FBI and a series of activists in Chicago and Minneapolis were served with grand jury subpoenas. Abudayyeh's involvement drew particular attention because he took part in an outreach session for Arab Americans last March in Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is part of the White House complex and subject to security by the Secret Service.
Court records and other activists suggest that prosecutors were investigating whether Abudayyeh gave financial help to groups on U.S. government terrorist lists, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Palestinian women's charity or rebels in Colombia.
However, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office, which is conducting the investigation, said he had no information on any court action to freeze the Abudayyehs' assets. Deutsch and Fennerty said they believed the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control was responsible for the action.
But a spokesman for the Treasury Department, Marti Adams, said Tuesday that neither Hatem nor Naima Abudayyeh were on any sanctions list, which are publicly available on the agency's website. "Treasury has not designated Abudayyeh or his wife," Adams said.
Deutsch said it was possible that the Abudayyeh's accounts were blocked by Treasury pending an investigation even in the absence of a formal designation.
However, a Treasury Department official said the agency isn't empowered to do that. "We don’t have the authority to freeze assets absent an actual application of sanctions," said the official, who asked not to be named.
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EXCLUSIVE: Obama-Tied HAMAS Proxy Hatem Abudayyeh in Charge of Pro-Hamas Counterprotests Throughout the Chicagoland Area
by Laura Loomer | Oct 24, 2023 | Exclusive, Investigations, Islam In America, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Hatem Abudayyehis a longtime actor within Hamas-affiliated and terror tied Islamic organizations. Based outside Chicago, Abudayyeh has worked for the Arab American Action Network since 1999, where he is currently the Executive Director. In 2010, his home was raided by the FBI for possible links to Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash.
In 2011, he had his bank accounts frozen on suspicious of terrorism financing. Abudayyeh is also the National Chair of (USPCN) the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and coordinates all Media around their counter-protests within the Chicagoland area. He has held this position since April 2012. This means he was hired by the organization after the raids on his house by the FBI for his links to Hamas, as all of his financial accounts were frozen in 2011.
Since then, Abudayyeh has helped coordinate multiple violent rallies all over the world, including the most recent counter protest to the “Solidarity with Israel” event in Skokie, IL, which took place on October 22, 2023. As recently as 2019, Abudayyeh has been mentioned in U.S. State Department assessments for his links with designated terrorist organizations. Additionally, in 2017, Abudayyeh was reportedly the coordinator of the defense committee for Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh’s defense before she was deported to Jordan in 2017 on charges of immigration fraud. In 1969, Odeh was the mastermind behind a supermarket bombing for the PFLP, which killed two college students. She also once attempted to bomb the British consulate in Jerusalem.
Hatem Abuddayah and the people within his network spend their time harassing the most prominent Jewish neighborhoods in Illinois, like Skokie and West Rogers Park. While running the USPCN, Abudayyeh has dedicated his time to specific media endeavors. This includes stalking Jewish profiles and looking for any and all pro-Israel rallies he can bring his pro-Hamas supporters to.
To say he is obsessed with eradicating Israel and the Jewish people from the planet is an understatement!
According to The Investigative Project: “Hatem Abudayyeh is the executive director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in Chicago and is a longtime Palestinian activist. Throughout the last decade, Abudayyeh has spoken or written against Israeli policies in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon and supported “resistance” against Israel. In September 2010 the FBI raided Abudayyeh’s home, in search of funding links between Abudayyeh and Hamas.”
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Red Carpet
A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House
by Steven Emerson and John Rossomando
IPT News
October 21, 2012
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A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.
Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations.
The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups which have:
Been designated by the Department of Justice as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorist trials; Extolled Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas and Hizballah;
Obstructed terrorist investigations by instructing their followers not to cooperate with law enforcement;
Promoted the incendiary conspiratorial allegation that the United States is engaged in a "war against Islam"— a leading tool in recruiting Muslims to carry out acts of terror;
Repeatedly claimed that many of the Islamic terrorists convicted since 9-11 were framed by the U.S government as part of an anti-Muslim profiling campaign.
Individuals from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) visited the White House at least 20 times starting in 2009. In 2008, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist money laundering case in U.S. history – the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in which five HLF officials were convicted of funneling money to Hamas.
U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis later ruled that, "The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the association" of CAIR to Hamas, upholding their designations as unindicted co-conspirators. In 2008, the FBI formally ended all contact with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
In January 2004, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR's Los Angeles office, publicly defended Palestinian terror attacks in comments before Muslim students at the University of California – Los Angeles, saying that terrorists were exercising their "legitimate right" to defend themselves against Israeli occupation.
Ayloush, who was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., casts the United States as controlled by Israeli interests. At a 2008 CAIR banquet in San Diego, he imagined "an America that respects and humanizes religion. It's an America that is free to act on its values and not on the interests of any foreign lobby." In 2004, he said that the war on terror had become a "war on Muslims." Ayloush attended at least two White House meetings.
The logs show Ayloush met with Paul Monteiro, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement on July 8, 2011 and Amanda Brown, assistant to the White House director of political affairs Patrick Gaspard, on June 6, 2009.
According to reliable sources, Monteiro was White House liaison for secret contacts with CAIR, especially with Ayloush. IPT has learned that the White House logs curiously have omitted Ayloush's three meetings with two other senior White House officials.
Louay Safi, formerly executive director of the Islamic Society of North America, visited the White House twice – meeting in intimate settings with Paul Monteiro on June 29, 2011 and July 8, 2011.
Law enforcement first noticed Safi in 1995 when his voice was captured in an FBI wiretap of now-convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian. At the time of his conversation with Al-Arian, Safi served as executive director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, an organization listed in law-enforcement and in internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as one of the movement's top front groups in North America.
Safi also wrote for the Middle East Affairs Journal, produced by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). That group was established by Hamas deputy political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and part of the Hamas-support network called the "Palestine Committee."
>A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House
Safi has repeatedly expressed understanding for the underlying causes that provoke terrorism: "Terrorism cannot be fought by…ignoring its root causes. The first step…is to examine the conditions that give rise to the anger, frustration, and desperation that fuel all terrorist acts." He also called Palestinian terrorists "freedom" fighters.
Esam Omeish, former head of the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim American Society, visited the White House three times.
In 2000, Omeish personally hired the late terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to be the imam of Falls Church, VA, Dar al-Hijrah mosque. According to IPT analysis, more terrorists have been linked to Dar al-Hijrah since 9/11 than to any other mosque in America.
Omeish publicly mourned the Israeli airstrike that killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at an April 10, 2004, MAS conference.
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According to video captured by IPT, Omeish went a step further at the December 22, 2000, Jerusalem Day rally in Washington's Lafayette Park, praising Palestinian terror groups, saying they had learned "the jihad way" to "liberate" Palestine.
In a sermon at Dar al-Hijrah in 2009, Omeish called for "an American Islamic movement that transforms our status, that impacts our society, and that brings forth the change that we want to see."
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Last month, Omeish attended a reception for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during Morsi's United Nations visit. Morsi is a longtime Egyptian Brotherhood leader. Omeish posted a picture of the event on his Facebook page and noted: "His Excellency provided great insights and we share important perspectives."
Mohamed Elibiary, appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council in October 2010, spoke at a December 2004 seminar in honor of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, titled: "A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary."
Elibiary condemned the convictions of the defendants in the Hamas money-laundering trial as a "loss for America" and dismissed the prosecution as "a political trial trying to achieve a government policy." He also opposed the targeting of American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, saying it wouldn't be "worth the ramifications of having to chase his ghost as a martyr for the next half century."
Interestingly, the Obama administration's enthusiastic support for gay rights did not prevent it from inviting Islamists who support laws overseas giving gays the death penalty.
In a June 21, 2001 article in The San Francisco Chronicle, Muzammil Siddiqi, the former head of Islamic Society of North America, said he "supported laws in countries where homosexuality is punishable by death." Siddiqi met with Monteiro on June 8, 2010.
Despite the President's public proclamations that he is standing strong against terrorism, the White House logs demonstrate that he has legitimized the very same groups that espouse radical Islamic terrorism.
MPAC's Influence on Policy
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has secured the closest working relationship with the Obama White House despite a record of anti-Semitism, whitewashing the terrorist threat and hostility toward law enforcement. Fifteen MPAC officials have been welcomed by the White House. Executive Director Salam al-Marayati enjoyed at least six White House visits between September 2009 and July 2011, mostly involving meetings with Monteiro. Alejandro Beutel, who was MPAC's government liaison until July 2012, had 10 White House visits between July 2010 and May 2012.
MPAC's Washington director Haris Tarin made 24 trips to the White House between December 2009 and March 2012. Those meetings often were intimate in nature, involving a handful of people at most.
Edina Lekovic, an MPAC spokeswoman, visited the White House twice in July 2010. As a UCLA student, Lekovic served as an editor of a Muslim magazine called Al-Talib, which in 1999 ran an editorial calling Osama bin Laden "a great mujahid" and saying when bin Laden is called a terrorist, "we should defend our brother and refer to him as a freedom fighter, someone who has forsaken wealth and power to fight in Allah's cause and speak out against oppressors. We take these stances only to please Allah." That issue identified Lekovic as a managing editor.
Like CAIR, MPAC also has pushed that "war on Islam" message. MPAC defended Hizballah's 1983 attack on a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon which killed 241 Americans and questioned U.S.-terror designations for Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
But the White House turned to MPAC officials as it prepared two papers on combatting what it calls violent extremism in America.
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On July 18, 2011, White House Senior Director for Global Engagement QuintanWiktorowicz hosted four MPAC officials for a private meeting. Two weeks later, the White House issued "Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States," a counter-terrorism initiative which made no mention of radical Islam or jihad waged by its followers. Rather, it named only al-Qaida as the enemy and included a vow to counter al-Qaida's narrative that America is at war with Islam.
That focus fits neatly with MPAC's agenda. It has lobbied for years to strip references to Islam from national security dialogue, even though terrorists from al-Qaida to Hamas use Quranic doctrine to justify their bloody campaigns.
And it marks the culmination of a dream described by MPAC founder Salam al-Marayati in a 2005 speech: "Counter-terrorism and counter-violence should be defined by us," he said. "We should define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be pursued in this country. So, number one, we reject any effort, notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one another … That is why we are saying have them [law enforcement] come in community forums, in open-dialogues, so they come through the front door and you prevent them having to come from the back door."
Wiktorowicz, a member of President Obama's National Security Council who authored a 2005 ebook on radical Islam, was a receptive host for MPAC government and policy analyst Alejandro Beutel, Washington, D.C. office director Haris Tarin, policy analyst Hoda Elshishtawy and Shammas Malik, an MPAC intern, White House logs show.
MPAC didn't tout the July 18 meeting publicly but quickly praised the White House initiative. It "echoes MPAC's long-standing position of emphasizing community-based solutions in addressing violent extremism," the organization said in an August 3, 2011 news release.
Days before the meeting, President Obama called Tarin personally to commend his work with the Muslim American community and the nation.
MPAC repaid the courtesy a month later by issuing a paper blasting the American opposition to a Palestinian scheme to get United Nations recognition of statehood without pursuing it through peace talks.
The MPAC report questions the Obama administration's integrity by suggesting that the "U.S. is so out of step with global public opinion" on this issue because it is unduly influenced by "domestic political consequences" and campaign concerns, an allusion to the perceived political power of the pro-Israel lobby in the U.S., which MPAC often invokes.
Despite MPAC's strident public opposition to U.S. policy, Wiktorowicz again hosted Beutel, Tarin, and Elshishtawy on November 4, 2011 – just a month before a follow-up counter-terrorism document was released.
Access Didn't Moderate MPAC
In March 2011, Beutel took to Press TV, an English-language broadcast outlet controlled by the Iranian government, to criticize congressional hearings on radicalization within the Muslim American community:
It spoke to a lot of the feelings that I think many Muslim Americans have with respect to their position here in America post-9/11. We are loyal citizens to this nation and we are trying to do everything we can to keep it safe and secure. And yet even when we're doing the right things and in many cases, laying our lives down on the line for our nation, we still get stigmatized sometimes.
Most recently, Beutel co-authored an op-ed with Tarin, in which the two MPAC officials criticized NYPD surveillance of Muslim student groups across the Northeast: "The NYPD's surveillance of an entire community based on their faith with no evidence of criminal activity is a blow [to] democracy and an ineffective and counterproductive offense to its mandate to 'protect and serve.'"
In September 2010, Beutel criticized FBI raids in Chicago and Minneapolis targeting supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. Beutel argued that "[t]he FBI cannot continue to tell the American people that harassing anti-war activists falls under the rubric of counterterrorism and a fight against al-Qaeda … They have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The FBI is undermining the trust that has been built between communities and law enforcement."
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Other Islamists Who Enjoyed Access
White House logs show Islamists visiting the White House who may have lower profiles, but who also defended terrorists and terrorist groups, and repeatedly castigated law enforcement, especially in counter-terror sting operations. Among them:
Farhana Khera– executive director of Muslim Advocates and the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML). She casts FBI counter-terror stings as "entrapment." Following arrests in late 2010, she told USA Today, "But for the government's role in these cases the suspects may have been left with their own bravado. Law enforcement resources need to be focused on actual threats." Khera also has compromised FBI operations and coached mosque personnel on how to evade FBI surveillance. "In one case, the FBI even wanted to build a gym to attract young Muslims to work out and 'discuss jihad," Khera once wrote. In July 2010 Khera told delegates at an Islamic Society of North American convention: "Sometimes [Muslim] community members don't even think of themselves as a[n] [FBI] source. They might just think [to] themselves, 'Well, I have a good relationship with the head of the FBI office. He comes by my office from time to time and we have tea, or we go to lunch, and he just talks to me about the community.' But what may seem like an innocuous set of conversations in the FBI's mind they may be thinking of you as an informant, as a source. And the repercussions and the harm that that can cause can be pretty serious." Khera shows up three times in the White House visitor logs, most recently in August 2011.
Hisham al-Talib–A founder and current VP of Finance for Herndon, VA-based, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), an organization the FBI believes has housed key Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the United States since the late 1980s. Al-Talib was among seven people to meet March 30, 2012 with Joshua DuBois, White House executive director of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. A 1987 FBI investigative report, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, cited a source whose name was redacted but who has private communication with IIIT leaders. Their conversations show the IIIT leaders "…are implementing Phase I of the overall six phase IKWAN [Brotherhood] plan to institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States." The source said that IIIT leaders were working "to peacefully get inside the United States Government and also American universities" ultimately to help overthrow non-Islamic governments. Just four years later, the IIIT acknowledged funding WISE, a Tampa think-tank that housed four members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's governing board (Sami al-Arian, Ramadan Shallah, Basheer Nafi and Mazen al-Najjar). WISE had a cooperative agreement to work with University of South Florida faculty. In a November 1992 letter to al-Arian, IIIT President Taha Jaber al-Awani explained the intimate relationship between the Tampa and Virginia operations. "And I would like to affirm these feelings to you directly on my behalf and on the behalf of all my brothers [naming IIIT officials including al-Talib] … "that when we make a commitment to you or try to offer, we do it for you as a group, regardless of the party or façade you use the donation for … [W]e consider you as a group … a part of us and an extension of us. Also, we are part of you and an extension of you," al-Awani wrote. "[O]ur relationship, in addition to being a brotherhood of faith and Islam, is an ideological and cultural concordance with mutual objectives." The letter named the IIIT officials who shared this view, including al-Talib.
Imam Talib El-Hajj Abdur Rashid–religious and spiritual leader of Harlem's Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood. Rashid rationalized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stance on destroying Israel, saying it merely is a "sentiment born of the legitimate anger, frustration, and bitterness that is felt in many [parts of the Muslim World" because of Israel's "ongoing injustice toward the Palestinian people." He also serves on the National Committee to Free Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was convicted of killing a Georgia police officer in 2002.White House logs place Rashid in two meetings during 2010 including a July 13 event with President Obama.
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>Other Islamists Who Enjoyed Access
Hatem Abudayyeh – executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network, founded by Rashid Khalidi, a friend of President Obama. Abudayyeh has been under criminal investigation at least since September 2010, when FBI agents raided his home and office in connection with a terror-support probe. In a 2006 interview, Abudayyeh blasted Israel's "military killing machine" after Israel retaliated for a cross-border Hizballah attack that killed five people and led to the kidnapping of two soldiers. "The U.S. and Israel will continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations as 'terrorists,'" he said,"but the real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and Israel." He visited the White House in April 2010.
Outreach to minority communities can foster a feeling of inclusiveness. However, President Obama opening the White House to radical Islamists compromises American security in at least two ways. First, it legitimizes groups and individuals whose track records beg skepticism and scrutiny. Second, White House visitor logs show that top U.S. policy-makers are soliciting and receiving advice from people who, at best, view the war on terrorism as an unchecked war on Muslims. These persons' perspectives and preferred policies handcuff law enforcement and weaken our resolve when it comes to confronting terrorism.
https://www.investigativeproject.org/3777/a-red-carpet-for-radicals-at-the-white-house
>Hatem Abudayyeh
Hatem Abudayyehvisited the White House at least once. He met with Paul Monterio, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagementon April 22, 2010.BiographyHatem Abudayyehis the executive director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in Chicago and is a longtime Palestinian activist. Throughout the last decade, Abudayyeh has spoken or written against Israeli policies in the West Bank,Gaza and Lebanon and supported “resistance” against Israel. In September 2010the FBI raided Abudayyeh’s home, in search of funding links between Abudayyeh and Hamas.1Anti-Israel and Anti-U.S. StatementsAt an Occupy Chicago Protest in October 2011, Abudayyeh said:“The global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is making a dent on Israel, and its indemnity over the Palestinian people and the Arab world. And even here in the U.S., Israel is beginning to be seen as the criminal pariah state that it is.”2
In the same article, Abudayyeh praisedterrorist organizations:“Israel’s unilateral ‘ceasefire’ also signifies that its military was not able to defeat the Palestinian resistance, which was strong and unified and included all the organizations that constitute the Palestinian national liberation movement -Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Fatah and others.It also signifies that Israel’s political goals of fostering internal Palestinian division -to impose an acceptance of Israeli apartheid and occupation on the Palestinian people -was defeated as well.”7
Group run by FBI raid target received gov't funds
By ABC7
Monday, September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010 (CHICAGO) In this intelligence report, why one of the government's targets is also a recipient of government funds.
When FBI agents raided the Chicago home of Hatem Abudayyeh last Friday, they took his laptop computer and paper records, anything with the word "Palestine" on it, according to the man's attorney.
Federal search warrants indicate that authorities are looking for connections between terrorist organizations in the Middle East and South America and certain anti-war leaders and organizations in the U.S.
As executive director of the Arab American Action Network in Chicago, Mr. Abudayyeh is a well-known advocate for immigrant rights. When federal officers raided his North Side home last week, along with residences in Minneapolis, they were looking for funding links between Abudayyeh and the radical Islamic group Hamas that took power in the Gaza Strip three years ago.
Even as Abudayyeh is under investigation by a federal grand jury, city of Chicago records obtained by the ABC7 I-Team show that his Arab American Action Network has received thousands of dollars in city grants: as much as $457,000 since 1998. According to city officials, the money was intended for an after-school program for high-risk students who struggle with English.
Abudayyeh supporters late Monday afternoon protested the raids outside FBI headquarters on the West Side, where federal authorities say only that they have an ongoing investigation of activities "…concerning the material support of terrorism…"
His lawyer did not return calls from the I-Team.
ABC7 also learned Monday that in 2001, Abudayyeh and several others filed a lawsuit against the city, seeking the freedom to wear traditional Arab headwear during Michigan Avenue protests. The case was settled. Terms unknown.
That lawsuit against the city nine years ago was based on the same belief as the protests today: that political activists are selectively and unfairly targeted by the government.
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The son of Palestinian immigrants who themselves were leaders in Chicago’s Arab community, Hatem Abudayyeh was born in Chicago and is a founding Advisory Board member of the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC).
Halima Bahri, Youth Services Program Coordinator
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Louise Cainkar-Mashrah, Treasurer
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