An Israeli-born actress on Wednesday asked the FBI to investigate funding that pro-Palestinian organizations may be receiving from terrorist groups.
Noa Tishby, who last year served as Israel’s first special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, told the House Ways and Means Committee that federal and state authorities should “immediately” investigate the sources of support for Students for Freedom. Justice in Palestine (SJP). and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).
“With the amount of evidence linking SJP and AMP members to the support and financing of terrorist groups, including Hamas, these organizations and networks should be investigated by state police and the FBI,” Tishby told members led by Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.).
“Terrorists… are currently holding more than 200 Israeli, American and other citizens hostage. The time for the criminal investigation is now,” he added.
Israeli-born actress Noa Tishby is calling for the FBI to investigate funding that American college student groups may be receiving from terrorists. Alon Shafransky
Panel members agreed during the hearing to send bipartisan letters to the FBI and IRS requesting an investigation into the funding, a move that Tishby later told The Post in an interview was “long overdue.”
“This explosion of anti-Jewish hatred that is happening in America right now did not come out of nowhere,” Tishby said. “We knew this was rotting and brewing beneath the surface.”
“Every one of us on this panel knew exactly what was going on – on the campuses – but it has been hidden from the majority of Americans,” he added.
Tishby also said that college campuses would not only have to take into account anti-Semitic rhetoric but also denial of the horrors perpetrated by Hamas.
“The Jewish community had to prove to the world… that the Holocaust happened,” he continued. “There was a massacre against Jews on October 7. And since then, we’ve heard calls for more massacre and we’re trying to convince people that the massacre really happened, when it’s the perpetrators of that massacre who recorded themselves. “
Those denials can be clearly seen, Tishby noted, in the many videos that have appeared online of college students caught tearing down posters of Israeli hostages taken by the terrorist group to the Gaza Strip.
“They have been brainwashed into thinking that Israel is actually committing genocide, so they gloat and rejoice in the ‘good’ they are doing,” he said. “It’s just shocking and heartbreaking.”
AMP, which was founded by Hatem Al Bazian, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, currently houses employees and fundraisers who previously worked for defunct organizations that donated more than $12 million to Hamas, according to the former finance analyst. of terrorism at the Treasury Department, Jonathan Schanzer.
Schanzer, now senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that while working at the Treasury, he and his colleagues had “disrupted several Hamas charities” operating in the United States.
“The case against these groups, which provided financial and material support to Hamas, is now well known,” he added. “More than a half-dozen people who previously worked for those Hamas charities now run American Muslims for Palestine.”
“There is enough evidence linking SJP and AMP members to support and financing of terrorist groups, including Hamas, that both state police and the FBI should investigate them immediately,” Tishby said.
Schanzer had previously testified before the House Homeland Security Committee in 2016 that the organizations (the Holy Land Foundation, KindHearts and the Islamic Association for Palestine) had sanctions and prison terms imposed on their leaders after they were revealed the financing of terrorism.
At the same time, he added, AMP has been lobbying “Squad” Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), as well as Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Betty McCollum of Minnesota . , Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Bill Pascrell of New Jersey and Andre Carson of Indiana.
Additionally, SJP “receives funding, guidance and support from AMP,” according to Schanzer.
Pascrell, who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee, dismissed Schanzer’s assessment of AMP’s influence as “total garbage” but did not direct any questions to the witness.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has also taken note of the SJP’s messaging in favor of Hamas and promotion of violence against Israelis following the brutal October 7 surprise attack that killed more than 1,200 people, including 33 Americans.
“We can no longer give free passes to supporters of organizations committed to global Jihad who are currently holding more than 200 Israelis, Americans and dozens of other citizens hostage in Gaza,” Tishby said.
The SJP issued a memo hours after the attack that justified the killings as “resistance” and urged its university sections to express “solidarity.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last month ordered his state’s university system to ban the radical pro-Palestinian student group from campuses for their “harmful support of terrorist groups.”
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares launched an investigation into AMP on Oct. 31, saying the organization was unregistered and “may have used funds raised for purposes impermissible under state law, including benefiting or providing support to terrorist organizations.” .
Tishby, author of the 2021 best-selling book “Israel: A Simple Guide to the World’s Most Misunderstood Country,” denounced the SJP in her comments as “a hate group.” Kleponis Chris/CNP/ABACA/Shutterstock
Other sections of the SJP have had their official status revoked for holding unauthorized rallies (and for displaying anti-Semitic messages), such as at Columbia University and George Washington University, respectively.
Students at Cornell University have also called on their administration to take disciplinary action against a professor who called the terrorist attack at an SJP rally “exciting.”
Talia Dror, a student at Cornell University, also testified before the House committee about a professor on her campus who called the terrorist attack during an SJP rally “exciting” and that Jewish students received death threats.
“Jewish students on campus received threats saying, ‘If I see another Jew on campus, I will stab you and slit your throat.’ If I see another sow, a Jewish one, I will drag you, rape you and throw you off a cliff,’” Dror testified.
Professor Russell Rickford later apologized and took leave. Patrick Dai, a junior at Cornell, was arrested and charged Oct. 31 with making threats to kill.
The Anti-Defamation League has also taken note of the SJP’s messages in favor of Hamas and the promotion of violence against Israelis following the brutal Hamas surprise attack on October 7 that killed 1,200 people.REUTERS
Tishby, author of the 2021 bestseller “Israel: A Simple Guide to the World’s Most Misunderstood Country,” denounced the SJP in her comments as “a hate group” that is grooming American college students – grooming their children. . Hate Israel, hate America and hate the Jews.”
Tishby, author of the best-selling 2021 book “Israel: A Simple Guide to the World’s Most Misunderstood Country,” denounced the SJP in her comments as “a hate group” that is “preparing American college students… for who hate Israel.” , they hate Jews and they hate America.”
“The SJP hijacks any campus that operates, and they use that word deliberately, after all, this organization that puts Palestinian plane hijacker Leila Khaled on their t-shirts,” he said.
“All universities in this country should permanently ban SJP,” he added. “We wouldn’t pay the mafia to teach business on campus. We should not pay supporters of terrorism to teach political activism to our children. “We should treat the SJP just like we would treat the KKK.”
“All universities in this country should ban SJPs and never allow them to return. We would not fund KKK chapters on our universities,” Tishby also said. “And if the universities fail to remove the SJP from campus, if they continue to protect and finance the leaders of an anti-Semitic mafia, then this committee should defund them.”
“We would not allow the mafia to teach business on campus. We must not allow supporters of terrorism to teach political activism to our children,” he added.
Tishby further suggested that Congress should “stop rolling out the red carpet” to other “groups with terrorist ties” and said it was “appalling that there are members of Congress who have accepted donations” from AMP.
Tishby also agreed with Schanzer that members of Congress “should never be funded from the same pool as murderous terrorists” and criticized Tlaib following her censure by the House for repeating the phrase “from the river to the sea.” on your social media account. which is a call for the eradication of Israel.
“I don’t understand how Rep. Rashida Tlaib says this is a call for freedom,” Tishby said. “I don’t understand how that phrase, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ can be understood in any other way than to cleanse the Jews from this land.”
“They say we must resist by all possible means, even after October 7,” he added. “That means resistance by beheading babies and raping women and girls, because that’s what they say.”
Tishby has joined Israeli “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot in calling attention to the horrors Hamas carried out, including projecting images of the atrocities at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles last week.
“I’m not saying that Israel doesn’t have political problems that all countries have,” Tishby also told The Post, noting that she had been fired from her role as special envoy for not having disagreed with a judicial reform effort put forward by the Prime Minister. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I knew it could cost me my job. So it was. And that was fine with me because Israel is a democracy,” Tishby said. “I may not agree with the Israeli government on all policies, but I certainly don’t want Israel to cease to exist.”
“I am the perfect embodiment of how you can criticize some laws that the Israeli government is proposing while still being a staunch Zionist,” he added, “and understand that the security of the State of Israel is important for safety and security.” for all Western civilization.
Categories: Trending
Source: vtt.edu.vn