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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a part of a secret social media group wherein its members have glamorized Hamas in its struggle battle with Israel after the phobia group attacked and killed lots of of harmless Israeli civilians final month, Fox Information Digital has discovered.
The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Fb. The group is hidden from non-members and doesn’t seem on the platform’s search engine, although Fox Information Digital was in a position to achieve entry to it.
The group’s founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has intensive ties to Tlaib and has additionally been linked to different liberal politicians, has come beneath fireplace prior to now for his antisemitic social media posts, together with questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.
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Rashida Tlaib is a member of the personal Palestinian American Congress Fb group. (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts within the wake of the lethal Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
On Oct. 12, one group member posted: “We do not need to throw you within the sea…we would like you to trip it again from the place you got here.” The message was accompanied by an image of an aged Israeli girl and a Hamas fighter holding her captive.
A submit on the Palestinian American Congress web page (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
On Oct. 19, one other group member wrote concerning the “achievements” of the “resistance in Northern occupied Palestine,” together with dozens of useless Israeli troopers. The submit included an image of a Hamas fighter.
A submit on the Palestinian American Congress web page (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
“Since yesterday I’ve been connected to the TV watching the information,” one group member posted on Oct. 10, addressing the “American Media” and saying, “You, and the folks directing you, are the issue, you created it virtually 100 years in the past, made it official 75 years in the past and you’ve got been feeding its flam ever since.”
“You take into account Hamas a terrorist group and I’m not going to argue with you on the similar time you might have been broadcasting that they’ve been killing ladies and kids, guess that’s what terrorists do on the similar time no point out to the killing of Palestinian ladies, youngsters and full households killed on a day by day basses (sic) by the [peace-loving] state of Israel utilizing American presents of weapons and jet fighters.”
“Yesterday I did not see Hamas I noticed the grand youngsters (sic) of the refugees that ethnically cleansed from their homeland attacking the grand youngsters (sic) of the colonists whom despatched them to diaspora,” they later wrote.
A submit on the Palestinian American Congress web page (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
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A number of members have additionally posted pro-Hamas messages and footage this 12 months earlier than the assaults.
A submit on the Palestinian American Congress web page (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
A submit on the Palestinian American Congress web page (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
Tlaib grew to become a member of the group six years in the past and posted in it throughout her 2018 congressional marketing campaign. The next 12 months, she got here beneath fireplace after a report within the Day by day Caller Information Basis revealed her membership and the slew of antisemitic posts within the group.
Rashida Tlaib posted within the Palestinian American Congress group in 2018. (Fox Information Digital screenshot of the key Palestinian American Congress Fb web page)
Tlaib is the one Palestinian American in Congress and has confronted scrutiny over her feedback after Hamas’ bloody invasion and the following struggle. In a largely symbolic gesture, the Home of Representatives voted to censure her in a 234-188 vote final week as a proper public rebuke of her most up-to-date anti-Israel feedback made within the wake of the Jewish nation’s battle towards the phobia group. Her congressional workplace didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Tlaib has an extended historical past with Abdel-qader, the founding father of the Palestinian American Congress group, who has repeatedly promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories through the years. He beforehand shared a video that referred to as Jews “satanic” and questioned whether or not 6 million of them had died within the Holocaust. He later walked again these feedback.
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Abdel-qader has participated in a number of fundraising occasions with Tlaib through the years and has additionally appeared in a number of footage together with her posted to social media accounts.
The Palestinian activist has not solely been a key fundraiser for Tlaib, together with personally donating at the least $6,500 to her marketing campaign since 2018, however he was additionally the chairman of her finance committee throughout her 2018 congressional marketing campaign.
Tlaib launched him by the title at a marketing campaign occasion and offered him with a medal in April 2018 as an indication of gratitude for his assist together with her inaugural marketing campaign.
On Monday, Abdel-qader posted a flier on his Fb web page, promoting a Chicago fundraiser for Tlaib and Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Summer time Lee, two congresswomen who he says “entire heartedly (sic) help” their neighborhood and the “simply explanation for Palestine.”
Maher Abdel-qader promotes a fundraiser for Reps. Summer time Lee and Rashida Tlaib. (Fox Information Digital screenshot of Maher Abdel-qader’s Fb web page)
Since Israel launched a counterattack towards Hamas, Abdel-qader has attended pro-Palestinian protests in the USA and has posted anti-Israel messages on his Fb web page.
For instance, on Oct. 19, Abdel-qader posted: “Israeli Nazis air strike (sic) on Ahli Arab Hospital killed greater than 500 folks cease the bloodbath now.”
In actuality, a failed rocket launch from the Palestinian aspect was answerable for hitting the hospital. Regardless of this, Tlaib and others repeated the falsehood that Israelis struck it, even after studies had proven that was not the case.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks throughout an illustration, whereby she referred to as for a cease-fire in Gaza, close to the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photograph / Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
And along with Tlaib, Abdel-qader has additionally proven help for a number of different progressive politicians, together with fellow “Squad” member Cori Bush of Missouri.
Bush took half in a digital Zoom fundraiser with Abdel-qader in September 2021, per his since-locked Instagram account. In November of that 12 months, Abdel-qader posted a Bush fundraising flier for a reception hosted by the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Muslim Group of St. Louis, which solicited donations between $100 and $2,500 for Bush’s marketing campaign.
It seems he donated $250 to her marketing campaign for the fundraiser.
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The controversial activist has additionally campaigned with a number of different Democrats, together with New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams and Minnesota Legal professional Basic Keith Ellison, amongst others.
Abdel-qader didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.
Joe Schoffstall is a politics producer/reporter for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions could be despatched to Joe.Schoffstall@Fox.com and on Twitter: @joeschoffstall
