Backers of Rashida Tlaib’s Campaign Posted Pro-Terror Content

Several people who Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) openly thanked for her successful congressional campaign have posted explicit pro-terror and anti-Semitic content on social media, including calls for violence, such as “kill every Zionist,” according to a report by the Israel Advocacy Movement (IAM). The report reviewed the social-media posts of several people Tlaib personally thanked in a March 31, 2018, Facebook post.

“My family and friends did it in Chicago! In less than a week of planning they really showed their strength and helped our campaign,” Tlaib wrote. “A special thank you to Ahlam Jbara, Mwafaq Jbara, Maher Abdel-qader, and my amazing Amo Abu Faris, Mufid Issa, who called people in Chicago while he was out of the country.” Of the five people Tlaib thanked in her post, four have social-media profiles and each one has made posts supporting known terrorists.

Ahlam Jbara appears in several photos with Tlaib. She has also posted photos of herself with Rasmea Odeh, a terrorist who was convicted and jailed for 10 years for her role in the murder of two students in the bombing of a supermarket in Jerusalem in 1969. Odeh’s American citizenship was revoked in 2015 because she concealed her terrorism conviction when applying for citizenship. Reema Ahmed, another person who worked on Tlaib’s campaign, “liked” a cartoon in support of Odeh, and wrote a post in search of a t-shirt emblazoned with a large “I support Rasmea” graphic. Ahlam Jbara made the “selfie” photo with Odeh her profile image, called Odeh “an icon for all social justice fighters,” and even baked the convicted terrorist a birthday cake in 2014. Ahlam Jbara also shared a photo glorifying Mohammed Ali, the terrorist who stabbed three soldiers in Jerusalem.

Mwafaq Jbara, the second person mentioned in Tlaib’s post, posted “some of the most extreme content,” according to IAM, including hundreds of pro-terror posts. In one post from 2016, he honors Imad Mugniyah, who was the founding member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, a terrorist group, and the second-in-command for the Hezbollah terrorist group. The United States and Israel hold Mugniyah personally responsible for a number of bombings, murders, and kidnappings. In another post, Mwafaq Jbara honors Sheikh Ahmen Assin, the co-founder of the Hamas terrorist group. He also honored Yahya Ayyash, the chief bombmaker of Hamas responsible for the deaths of at least 75 people. In addition to posting anti-Semitic cartoons which call for violence against Jews, Mwafaq Jbara also invoked Hitler’s name in an ominous post from 2014. “Today is for you, but tomorrow will be for us. And Hitler will be a dove in comparison,” he wrote. In at least two posts, Mwafaq Jbara mentioned that he was in Megiddo Prison, which, according to AIM, holds Palestinians who post “serious security threats” to Israel. In one post, Mwafaq Jbara suggests that, while in prison, he was in contact with Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the co-founder of Hamas. In the post, he praised al-Rantisi as the “heaven of martyrs, the lion of Palestine.” “Your words are still resonating in my ears and I still remember our meeting of Megiddo in 1997,” Mwafaq Jbara wrote.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/backers-of-rashida-tlaibs-campaign-posted-pro-terror-content_2869858.html

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He Was Chief Justice Of A State Supreme Court. He Just Reported To Jail

Former West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Allen Loughry surrendered at a federal prison facility in South Carolina Friday, where he will serve a two-year sentence for crimes relating to a sweeping public corruption scandal. A federal judge sentenced the disgraced ex-justice in February, following his conviction for wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to federal investigators. In addition to criminal penalties, Loughry was disbarred from legal practice, agreed never to seek public office again and paid fines totaling $12,000.

Local press accounts of lavish renovations at the state Supreme Court set off an audit of the justice’s spending practices. That inquiry discovered that Loughry and another justice, Menis Ketchum, used state resources for personal purposes. A federal investigation followed, leading to a battery of criminal charges against Loughry and Ketchum. Among other offenses, investigators discovered that Loughry collected compensation from a law school for travel expenses he had not incurred and removed a state-owned antique desk from a public facility to his private residence. The famed architect Cass Gilbert designed the desk, the estimated value of which is $40,000.

Loughry is the author of a lengthy history of political corruption in West Virginia called “Don’t Buy Another Vote, I Won’t Pay For A Landslide.” The spending scandal set off a constitutional crisis in West Virginia. Loughry and Ketchum left judicial service and were convicted of financial crimes in federal court. A third justice, Robin Jean Davis, resigned to avoid a prospective impeachment. The Daily Caller News Foundation identified evidence of a possible straw donation scheme to Davis’s 2012 re-election campaign, prompting an investigation from the West Virginia secretary of state. The state Legislature impeached the remaining two justices, Margaret Workman and Beth Walker.

Walker subsequently contested the impeachment before a specially composed judicial panel. That panel issued an injunction barring an impeachment trial, concluding the Legislature exceeded its authority with respect to Walker’s removal. Both Walker and Workman remain in office. GOP Gov. Jim Justice appointed Justices Tim Armstead, Evan Jenkins and John Hutchison to the seats vacated by Ketchum, Davis and Loughry.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/07/allen-loughry-in-jail/

Twitter Backs Off Partnership With SPLC Amid Bombshell Reports. Amazon Stays Silent

Twitter appears to be one of the only big tech companies to back out of an alliance with the Southern Poverty Law Center after the group’s long-time president was fired for unspecified conduct reasons, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

“The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council or a partner the company has worked with recently,” a source within the company told TheDCNF. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity and did not disclose when Twitter distanced itself from the SPLC, which was dealt a significant blow in March following reports suggesting the group scams people out of money. Twitter listed the SPLC as a “safety partner” working to combat “hateful conduct and harassment,” according to a June 2018 DCNF report. The company also included the Trust and Safety Council, which “provides input on our safety products, policies, and programs,” Twitter’s policy page noted at the time. Twitter’s page no longer includes SPLC as a member helping to govern certain types of conduct.

Amazon, Google and Facebook have not responded to TheDCNF’s requests for comment regarding their ongoing affiliation with the SPLC. Facebook did, however, tell The Daily Signal that the company doesn’t “rely on any one outside group in the development of our policies.” All four companies worked with or consulted the SPLC as early as June 2018 to help police their platforms for “hate speech” or “hate groups.” Amazon granted the SPLC broad policing power over the Amazon Smile charitable program. “We remove organizations that the SPLC deems as ineligible,” an Amazon spokeswoman told TheDCNF in 2018. Amazon grants the SPLC that power “because we don’t want to be biased whatsoever,” she said at the time. Former SPLC staffer Bob Moser, now a Rolling Stone reporter, accused the nonprofit group in a March 21 New Yorker article of “ripping off donors” while ignoring racial discrimination and sexual harassment. The SPLC fired co-founder Morris Dees on March 13 over “inappropriate conduct.”

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/07/facebook-conservative-splc/