Squad member sent money to DC nonprofit tied to pro-terror university

ON FOX FIRST: The marketing campaign for “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar lately despatched greater than $1,000 to a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that labored with a Palestinian college with alleged terrorist ties, in accordance with new Federal Election Fee paperwork reviewed by Fox Information Digital.

The Palestine Home of Freedom, additionally recognized by its Arabic title ‘Dar Alhurriya’, is a non-profit group headquartered only a block from the US Capitol.

In accordance with a video on the group’s web site, it’s “devoted to the liberation of Palestine” and “the dismantling of apartheid in Palestine and the institution of a free, democratic state from the river to the ocean.”

The group’s web site emphasizes that Israel “operates as an apartheid state.” The web site additional states that its mission is to “provoke an aggressive academic marketing campaign concentrating on everybody from lawmakers, staffers, the media to most people” to “present how dismantling apartheid and establishing a free democratic Palestine from the river to the ocean with equal rights is the trail to peace and can profit all events concerned.”

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Ilhan Omar (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune through Getty Pictures)

The paperwork present that Omar’s marketing campaign, Ilhan for Congress, $1,559.25 shipped to the anti-Israel Palestine Home of Freedom for “occasion tickets” in September. Nonetheless, it’s unclear what occasion the funds had been for.

The Palestinian Home of Freedom made headlines earlier this 12 months for organizing a June fundraiser for Palestinian Birzeit College, a faculty that claims terrorist ties and whose scholar council elections favor the pro-Hamas wing of scholar council members, in accordance with The Washington Reporter.

The college’s scholar council has lengthy been dominated by the Hamas-affiliated Al-Wafaa bloc and was beforehand known as the ‘Terrorist College’. Parades on school campuses have additionally reportedly concerned folks marching with pretend suicide bomb vests and rockets, as reported by Memri TV.

A Fox Information Digital investigation discovered that the Hamas-affiliated Al-Wafaa bloc has gained a number of scholar council elections in Birzeit courting again to the Nineteen Nineties, together with victories in 2022 and 2023. Following the 2023 victory, a prime Hamas official reportedly told the Middle East Monitor the victory represents an “extension” of the motion.

“The second message is that the bloc has confirmed its capability to adapt to adjustments, overcome complexities and fill the void left by arrests, martyrdom or deportation,” Ismail Haniyeh, who headed Hamas’s Political Bureau till he was killed by the Israeli military in Tehran final 12 months, instructed the Center East Monitor.

He added that Hamas is “unbreakable” in its homeland and that it’s going to confront “the occupier, the oppression and terrorism.” This was not the primary time a prime Hamas official praised the Al-Wafaa bloc’s victory in Birzeit. In 2017, a prime Hamas spokesman reportedly did so congratulated the student body in regards to the election outcomes.

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Hamas has signed onto President Donald Trump’s plan as IDF forces start to withdraw from the enclave. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto through Getty Pictures)

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Schooling and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., despatched a letter to Harvard College on Sept. 29, expressing concern in regards to the college’s lack of ability to make a public resolution about its previous partnership with Birzeit. Within the letter, lawmakers known as Birzeit “an establishment whose scholar physique overwhelmingly helps Hamas” and a faculty that “explicitly helps a U.S.-designated terrorist group.”

Harvard introduced this spring that it will not renew its partnership settlement with Birzeit and would make a closing resolution on the partnership after an inner overview, in accordance with The Harvard Crimson.

In accordance with the June occasion flyer, all proceeds from the Palestine Home of Freedom fundraiser, “From Birzeit and Past: How academia shas resistance and resilience,” went to Birzeit.

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Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., walks to the campus exit after visiting the protest camp in assist of Palestinians at Columbia College through the ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas in New York Metropolis on April 25, 2024. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)

Omar was one of many first Muslim girls elected to Congress in 2018. She has been closely criticized through the years for making anti-American and anti-Semitic feedback, together with saying that “some folks did one thing” relating to the September 11 assaults and saying that “Israel has hypnotized the world.” She later apologized for the remark about Israel.

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In September, a vote to censure Omar over feedback she made in regards to the homicide of Charlie Kirk narrowly didn’t cross the Home of Representatives.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Harvard, the Palestinian Home of Freedom, Omar’s workplace and Ilhan for remark earlier than Congress, however didn’t obtain a response as of press time.