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A NYPD official said the department received a letter from the university, authorizing their assistance with the protests on Tuesday, according to CNN.
Dozens of New York Police
Department officers dressed in riot gear entered Columbia University on
Tuesday evening, and helped clear out anti-Israel protesters who
remained at Hamilton Hall despite pleas from university officials to
vacate the premises.
Officers were seen arresting dozens of protesters just outside of the
campus by using zip-ties, but the number of arrests has not been
confirmed so far. Officers also told students who had come outside of
the dorms to see the commotion to go back inside, according to CNN.
An NYPD official said the department received a letter from the
university, authorizing their assistance with the protests on Tuesday.
It comes after more than 100 students were arrested by the NYPD a couple
weeks ago, when the protests began.
The arrests come after Columbia students were told to shelter in
place earlier in the day, because of heightened activity at the campus.
"Shelter in place for your safety due to heightened activity on the
Morningside campus," an email from the university's Emergency Management
Operations Team said. "Non-compliance may result in disciplinary
action. Avoid the area until further notice."
The protesters had intended to occupy the building until their demands were met, including
the university's divestment from companies that support Israel and
complete amnesty for protestors, according to Fox News, but were all
cleared out by Tuesday night.
NYPD said that it has been asked to keep a presence on the campus
through May 17, in order to "maintain order and ensure encampments are
not reestablished." The May 17 end date is two days after graduation.
There were reports of injuries amid violent confrontations between Israel supporters and the pro-Hamas encampment.
UCLA Royce Hall. Source: Flickr.
A chaotic scene unfolded at the main
campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in the Westwood
neighborhood late Tuesday night as pro-Israel protesters confronted the
pro-Hamas encampment there.
There were reports of fights breaking out,
resulting in injuries. An unverified video circulating online shows a
pro-Hamas mob allegedly beating a Jewish student.
Fights are breaking out @ucla. Both sides are getting worked up because NO LAW ENFORCEMENT. @UCPDLA please protect ALL your students now! @UCLAchancellor you are enabling a heightened dangerous situation and someone will get hurt. You should have broken up this illegal… https://t.co/oBRSraFmXM
According to social media accounts and
local reporting, the university and city police were absent from the
increasingly violent scene at UCLA.
The school on Tuesday declared that the
encampment “is unlawful and violates university policy” and warned
students that if they did not leave they would face arrest as well as
suspension or expulsion.
“Law enforcement is prepared to arrest
individuals in accordance with applicable law. Non-UCLA persons are
notified to leave the encampment and depart the campus immediately,” the
university administration wrote.
🚨 UCLA NOW: Rioters Riot.
❌The President has failed. ❌California has failed. ❌UCLA has failed. ❌LAPD has failed.
The Hamas supporters released a statement saying that they would not leave, leading to the confrontations late Tuesday night.
The local CBS affiliate reported that earlier Tuesday, clashes broke out between protesters and Jewish students after the encampment blocked their way to the library in the middle of midterms.
#UPDATE: Protesters seemed to push the metal fence surrounding the encampment further out into the quad to create a buffer between the two groups. https://t.co/nsuRIsnM9b
“Protesters continued to fight each other
well past 11:30 p.m., shooting fireworks at the encampments while melees
broke out past the barriers. One of the melees involved a person
swinging what appeared to be a skateboard,” the TV station wrote.
Aerial video from the city’s ABC affiliate
showed clashes breaking out on the university lawn, with objects being
thrown on both sides. The smaller pro-Israel group was being surrounded
by the larger pro-Hamas crowd.
#LIVE Protest has continued for more than 90 minutes with no law enforcement presence as brawls escalate in crowd; people are being beaten and kicked, barricades are being used as weapons https://t.co/XnraAnIQZkhttps://t.co/Yh33UtP5fI
“Protest has continued for more than 90
minutes with no law enforcement presence as brawls escalate in crowd;
people are being beaten and kicked, barricades are being used as
weapons,” the ABC affiliate tweeted.
California Highway Patrol officers were
finally starting to restore order at the UCLA campus in the early
morning hours of Wednesday after riots raged for some 3.5 hours without
any police intervention. Around seven police units arrived at the campus
to quell the violence.
“Horrific acts of violence occurred at the
encampment tonight and we immediately called law enforcement for mutual
aid support. The fire department and medical personnel are on the
scene. We are sickened by this senseless violence and it must end,” the
school’s vice chancellor said in a statement sent to the Daily Bruin student newspaper.
Leaflets handed at the protest stated that the university "weaponizes anti-Semitism to silence pro-Palestinian activism."
Pro-Palestinian poster hanging at the Northwestern University campus(photo credit: Northwestern Hillel)
Earlier in April, Northwestern University's
dean of students Mona Dugo attended an anti-Israel protest aimed at
targeting the school's Hillel, the university's Jewish student center,
asserting the demonstrators' "right to free speech."
Protest
organizers insisted on the university severing ties with Hillel, a
century-old nonprofit operating Jewish community centers globally,
including at Northwestern.
The demonstration coincided with Northwestern's Admitted Students Day, aimed at familiarizing incoming students with campus life.
Northwestern University's student union and library buildings (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Anti-Israel students have the "right to protest"
According to a report quoting the Daily Northwestern, the
university's main newspaper, Dean of Students Mona Dugo stated her
presence at Monday's rally was to uphold the anti-Israel activists'
"right to protest" and to "defend the right to free speech."
One
alleged protest organizer remarked during the rally that "'[Hillel] is
one of the many means through which this university perpetuates the
intertwining of Jewish identity with Zionism.'"
Hillel
leaders have targeted the protests going on in American universities,
sharing their disbelief at the ongoing situation as well as disapproval
for the protests targeting the organization.
A
leaflet distributed by protesters alleged Northwestern of "funneling
Jewish students into Hillel, the Zionist ‘foundation for Jewish life.’"
It further asserted the university "weaponizes claims of anti-Semitism
on campus to silence pro-Palestinian activism."
The
protest coincides with accusations against Northwestern president
Michael Schill of permitting a rise in anti-Semitism on campus.
Allegations stem from instances such as anti-Israel demonstrators
displaying the Hamas flag at student gatherings. Additionally, during Northwestern's Martin Luther King Jr. memorial ceremony in February, a speaker accused Israel of "genocide."
The prime minister reiterates that a "permanent ceasefire" will not happen before Hamas is destroyed in Gaza.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. Photo by Haim
Zach/GPO.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met
with Israeli leaders on Wednesday as part of his Middle East tour to
Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, his seventh trip to the Jewish state
since the current Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7.
Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, where they
“discussed ongoing efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as
part of a hostage deal and emphasized that it is Hamas that is standing
in the way of a ceasefire,” according to an official statement from the
U.S. State Department.
“Secretary Blinken reaffirmed the U.S.
commitment to Israel’s security,” the statement continued. “He also
discussed the need to avoid further expansion of the conflict and
updated the prime minister on ongoing efforts to ensure a lasting,
sustainable peace in the region.”
Without delving into details, the statement also read that Blinken “reiterated the United States’ clear position on Rafah.”
Secretary
of State Antony Blinken meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.
Netanyahu, according to reports in the Hebrew media, pushed back on America’s position, insisting that a Rafah operation will move forward, and that Israel will not agree to a “permanent ceasefire” before Hamas is destroyed in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces plans to
establish a humanitarian safe zone in the central Gaza Strip as part of
preparations for the evacuation of noncombatants from the southernmost
city of Rafah.
The new safe zone will be located south of
Wadi Gaza and north of the central camps—Nuseirat and Bureij—near the
east-west Netzarim Corridor the IDF recently created to split the Strip
into two parts, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.
The evacuation preparations come ahead of
an expected IDF offensive in Rafah, Hamas’s last terror bastion where
four of its last six battalions are entrenched, consisting of several
thousand fighters. Jerusalem says that conquering the city on the
Egyptian border is essential to winning the war.
However, there is intense international
opposition to a full-scale offensive, including from the United States,
with Blinken saying in Riyadh on Monday that “we have not yet seen a
plan that gives us confidence that civilians can be effectively
protected.”
Israel Defense Forces activity in the Gaza Strip, April 23, 2024. Credit: IDF.
Hostages the priority
Earlier on Wednesday, Blinken met with
President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv. Blinken and Herzog discussed the
ongoing negotiations to bring about the release of the Israeli hostages
still held in Gaza, in exchange for a pause in fighting and the release
of Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons.
“Even in these very difficult times we are
determined to get a ceasefire that brings the hostages home—and to get
it now,” said Blinken.
“And the only reason that wouldn’t be achieved is because of Hamas,” he added.
Herzog thanked Blinken “for the strong
support and the more clarity in what you’ve said regarding the
initiation of this terrible situation, the war that was waged upon us,
the atrocities, as well as the plight of the hostages.
“I think there should be a unanimous
decision of the international community that freeing the hostages is the
utmost priority,” Herzog continued.
U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Israeli President
Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, May 1, 2024. Photo by Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO.
Israel’s Settlements and National Missions Minister Orit Strook on
Wednesday harshly criticized the terms of a hostage deal being
negotiated with Hamas in Cairo, calling the Israeli proposal “trash” and
saying that a government that approves such an agreement “has no right
to exist.”
Strook, a member of Netanyahu’s coalition from the Religious Zionist Party, spoke during an interview with Army Radio.
“Soldiers left everything behind and went
out to fight for goals that the government defined, and we are throwing
it in the trash now to save 22 people, or 33 people, or I don’t know how
many,” she said.
“The government went to war with a clear
decision on the goals of the war, which were determined by it and are …
in a written document: dismantling and destroying all the capabilities
of Hamas in Gaza—military, governmental and economic; creating
conditions for the return of the abducted; and the removal of any threat
from Gaza towards Israel over time. This deal turns its back on all
three of these goals, including the goal of creating conditions for the
return of the abductees,” Strook continued.
In return for the release of a “small
number” of hostages, she said, under the deal Israel will be giving up
all its leverage to free the rest.
As for the rest, “These people will be left behind, and we will have nothing to pay for them,” she said.
Herzog, in his meeting with Blinken, also
highlighted reports that the ICC will soon issue arrest warrants for
Israeli leaders such as Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant,
saying, “Trying to use the International Criminal Court against Israel,
which is fighting terror, is a clear and present danger to democracies
and to free peace-loving nations who pursue the norms of international
law, and I call upon all our allies and friends to object and reject any
such efforts.”
Netanyahu said on Tuesday that if the
International Criminal Court in The Hague issues arrest warrants for
Israeli political and military leaders over the war against Hamas in the
Gaza Strip, it would constitute an “unprecedented antisemitic hate
crime.
“The possibility that they will issue
arrest warrants for war crimes against IDF commanders and government
leaders is a scandal of historical magnitude,” he said.
“Eighty years after the Holocaust, the
international bodies established with the goal of preventing another
Holocaust are considering denying the Jewish state its right to defend
itself,” he continued.
Netanyahu noted that this marks the first
time that a democratic country committed to international law is
defending itself from accusations of war crimes while at the same time
facing existential threats.
“If this does happen, it will be an
indelible stain on humanity. It would be an unprecedented antisemitic
hate crime that would add fuel to the antisemitic incitement that is
already raging in the world,” he said.
“Israel expects the leaders of the free
world to come out strongly against this scandalous step, a step that
will harm the self-defense not only of the State of Israel, but of all
democracies,” Netanyahu said.
Yair Lapid
Blinken also met with opposition leader
Yair Lapid, the latter tweeting afterwards that they “discussed the
international efforts to promote a hostage deal.”
Notably, Lapid reiterated his willingness
to join a government coalition to ensure a hostage agreement is approved
if Netanyahu’s current partners threaten to dissolve the government
over a deal. “If necessary I will make sure he has a majority in the
government,” Lapid wrote.
The secretary of state was also set to
meet with War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz later on Wednesday at Kibbutz
Yad Mordechai, 1 km. north of northern Gaza, followed by a trip to
Ashdod Port to inspect aid deliveries destined for Palestinian civilians
in the Strip.
He was also scheduled to hold a sit-down
meeting in Tel Aviv with families of American-Israeli hostages and visit
Kibbutz Be’eri, which was one of the hardest hit Israeli communities
during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
The Biden team clearly wants to distract American voters with a foreign threat
This might sound like a plot for a thriller — and I
am the author of "The Year of the Dragon" — but the director of the
FBI, Christopher Wray, recently said, at Vanderbilt University’s "Summit
on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats," that Chinese-government-linked hackers
have "burrowed into critical U.S. infrastructure" and are waiting for
"just the right moment to deal a devastating blow" to America.
Could such a moment come if China attacks Taiwan? Just imagine the mayhem in the U.S. if the national power grid was taken down for days.
The
U.S., along with Taiwan, run war games scenarios on worries like these
annually. But why is the director of the FBI worrying about them
publicly?
Chinese
President Xi Jinping reviews the honor guard during a welcome ceremony
at The Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 22, 2023.(Florence Lo - Pool/Getty Images)
Also,
why in the same political moment did U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken publish talking points saying there are now "290,000 Chinese
students in the United States" but just 900 American students in China?
In
the release, Blinken did not mention the massive rise in Chinese
nationals entering through the porous southern border of the U.S. — that
fact just isn’t something the Biden administration finds politically
convenient enough to talk about.
But Blinken did say the Biden administration is "very clear-eyed about the challenges posed by the PRC
[People’s Republic of China] and about our competing visions for the
future," before talking about how China is supplying Russia with
military parts that are "powering Russia’s brutal war of aggression
against Ukraine."
Secretary
of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meet at
the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 16.(Wolfgang Rattay/Pool Photo via AP)
He
also mentioned Chinese involvement in selling chemicals to Mexican
cartels that are sending massive amounts of the fentanyl into the U.S. —
chemicals that are killing more Americans every year than died in the
entire Vietnam War — though he didn’t take a stance tough enough to make
the Chinese flinch on this critical topic.
So then, why are Biden administration officials suddenly sounding so tough on China?
Biden recently signed legislation to force the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok
and legislation to fund Taiwan’s defense. In response, Chinese
officials are now threatening to take "resolute and forceful steps"
against the U.S. and Taiwan.
Saber-rattling
can be an important part of diplomacy, but typically, rhetoric like
this would be said through diplomatic channels while solutions are
floated publicly.
As that is not happening here, this appears to be all about U.S. domestic politics.
To
put this in perspective, it is important to remember that Biden accused
former President Donald Trump of xenophobia when he called COVID the
"China virus." Later, the Biden administration worked with American
social-media companies to censor political speech about China’s
involvement in the virus.
Even when Trump used tariffs to try to force China to play fair, Biden and much of the Left mocked and attacked him for it.
Indeed,
when China sent a spy balloon over the U.S., Biden hesitated and let it
cross the entire continent before ordering it to be shot down. In fact,
much of the Left, from The Atlantic to The New York Times, have long
told us that the Chinese model of a state-run economy is far superior to
America’s freer iteration of a market economy.
Yet,
with a presidential election looming and the polls not looking so good
for Biden, his administration is suddenly saying some very tough things
about China.
A central reason for this is that the Biden
administration clearly wants to distract American voters with a foreign
threat — and they are willing to risk a horrifying war to do so.
President
Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting during the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' week in Woodside, California,
on Nov. 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Next,
this threat would empower the Biden administration’s ambitions on the
domestic front; after all, if private and state-run companies all agree
that the Chinese hacking threat is real,
then they will feel obligated to give the FBI access to their computer
systems and data now — at the same time, for security reasons, they’ll
need to keep any details about this from the public. This then, would
further empower the FBI by giving them more access to Americans’ data
and more control of corporations at a time when the FBI has too often
behaved as a partisan political player for Democrats.
We
know, after all, where the U.S. intelligence agencies stand on Fourth
Amendment-protected due process rights of U.S. citizens.
This isn’t to say that China isn’t a real threat. Many "red states" have passed legislation barring Chinese interests
from purchasing land near military bases for this very reason. I am
spelling this all out because the American public needs to be aware of
all the nuance within this critical topic so they can at least try to
vote this November for what is in their best interest — the Biden
administration and various members of U.S. intelligence agencies, after
all, have not always done what is in the best interest of the American
public.
Rep. Loudermilk says his probe is designed to get to the truth, without "political bias."
House Republicans are expanding
their investigation into the January 6 Committee and the security
failures that led to the Capitol breach, planning to add staff and
pursue new lines of inquiry, the Chairman of the subcommittee leading
the investigation told Just the News.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Chairman of the House Administration
Subcommittee on Oversight, told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show on
Tuesday that he aims to publish a final report by this summer after
seeking interviews with top Pentagon officials and any former January 6
committee staff willing to come forward.
So far, Loudermilk’s investigation has spearheaded efforts to release
thousands of hours of security footage from January 6, found that the
Democrat-led select committee deleted hundreds of encrypted files, and
has taken testimony from National Guard whistleblowers criticizing
Pentagon leadership for its slow response to the riot at the Capitol.
“I've got a request in right now for additional personnel and some
additional funding, because of the number of whistleblowers that we have
coming out and other issues… there are so many avenues that we have to
go down in this investigation,” Loudermilk told the "Just the News, No
Noise" TV show on Tuesday evening.
“Hopefully the the bulk of our investigation we need to wrap up
sometime this summer. So you know, we can get a final report out and
then transition to [accountability],” he added.
Earlier this month, four former National Guard officials-turned-whistleblowers testified before Loudermilk’s committee
and sharply criticized Pentagon leadership over its failure to act
decisively in the face of the riot at the Capitol on January 6.
The whistleblowers criticized the Department of Defense’s own Inspector General report which concluded
the department’s actions to respond to the riot on January 6 “were
appropriate, supported by requirements, consistent with the DoD’s roles
and responsibilities…and compliant with laws, regulations, and other
applicable guidance.”
However, one whistleblower—Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks—said
the department failed to interview him or other key witnesses with
firsthand knowledge of what occurred that day. On January 6, Brooks
reported directly to Major General General William J. Walker, the
commanding general of the D.C. National Guard.
Multiple witnesses confirmed to the committee that several senior
Pentagon officials in charge of orchestrating the response were hampered
by concerns about the “optics” of deploying the guard to protect the
Capitol, an apprehension that delayed the law enforcement response.
Ultimately, the National Guard arrived more than three hours after the Capitol Police called for help.
Another witness—Colonel Earl Matthews, who was the Chief Legal
Advisor for the D.C. Army National Guard on January 6—told the committee
he believes senior Pentagon leadership lied to Congress and mislead
investigators. Both generals referenced by Matthews have previously pushed back on his characterization.
Loudermilk said their testimony has opened new avenues of inquiry and
he is will now pursue further information from the Department of
Defense. Specially, Loudermilk wants to interview the generals the
witnesses said let optics guide their decision-making.
“So we have contradictory information, including from the Department
of Defense Inspector General, we need information from the DOD. They
have been reclusive at best at our efforts to try to get their report,
to get the the transcribed interviews that they did have certain people
there at the Pentagon,” Loudermilk told Just the News.
“We also need to talk to some of the generals there that these
witnesses testified that we're concerned over the optics,” Loudermilk
said. “And so we're gonna, we're gonna make another request, and we may
have to use other means possible to require them to send us the
information,” he added.
The Department of Defense declined to comment on Loudermilk’s expanded investigation when asked by Just the News.
Loudermilk also said his committee will explore interviewing former
staff members who worked for the Democrat-led January 6 Select Committee
or the Representatives who served on the committee themselves.
“And so as we are starting to get the unbiased…without political
bias, without concerning ourselves with the optics of it…as we're just
trying to get to the truth, people are feeling confident that we're
going to get the truth out, and we'll do everything we can to protect
them,” Loudermilk said of potential future whistleblowers from the
select committee.
“And so I think it's going to be imperative that we do have more
information and more discussions with especially staff members,” he
added.
Loudermilk’s comments follow a report his committee released last month
which concluded the January 6 Select Committee withheld evidence from
the public that the politicization of Capitol security “directly
contributed to the many structural and procedural failures witnessed
that day.”
The report confirmed two years worth of reporting by Just the News on the Jan. 6 failures, including a report that one January 6 witness made significant changes to her testimony
that were not revealed by the Jan. 6 committee and that White House
officials had received instructions from Trump to offer the 10,000
National Guard troops to bolster security at the Capitol and assist
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, despite contrary claims from the
committee.
Last year, Just the Newsreported
former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson—a star witness heavily
relied upon by the January 6 Select Committee—made significant
revisions to her testimony before the committee.
These revisions, documented in an errata sheet uncovered by
Loudermilk, showed Hutchinson inserted new stories into her testimony,
like the infamous story about then-President Trump lunging at the driver
of his presidential vehicle in anger. Hutchinson chalked up
her changes to poor representation from her first lawyer, who she
alleges pressured her to stay loyal to Trump, which he has adamantly
denied. Hutchinson, for her part, has been targeted in a $10 million defamation suit brought by former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski.
Loudermilk believes accountability has to come from the Pentagon, and
lacking that, he says his committee is prepared to hold officials
accountable according to the findings of its investigation.
“[The] accountability first should come from within the Pentagon and the Inspector General's Office,” Loudermilk said.
“it is also Congress's responsibility to give oversight to these
things,” he added, explaining the House committee with usual
jurisdiction over the Pentagon and its operations has giving full
authority for his subcommittee to continue their investigation wherever
it may lead.
“Other committees working with us because they see the work that
we're doing is without political bias is to get to the truth. And let
the American people know because they deserve to know what really
happened on January 6, bring transparency and hold people accountable,”
he concluded.
Video released by NYPD shows 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, who has a long history of participating in protests like Occupy Wall Street
The New York City
Police Department released a video showing a professional "protest
consultant" who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob
of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia
University overnight Monday.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening.
"What
should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by
professional outside agitators. We were extremely cautious about
releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the
safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to
property," Adams said. "We have sounded the alarm several times before
about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest."
Adams
and members of his administration shared information about the outside
actors who were creating "serious public safety issues" at the protests.
NYPD officials said external actors at anti-Israel protests are introducing new protesting tactics.(NYPD)
"These
external actors are obviously not students, and their presence on
campus is a violation of Columbia’s clearly stated policy," Adams said.
"This group…is an outside agitator with a history of escalating a
situation and trying to create chaos. It is our belief they are now
actively co-opting what should be a peaceful gathering. This is to serve
their own agenda. They are not here to promote peace or unity or allow a
peaceful display of one's voice. They are here to create discord and
divisiveness."
The mayor urged anyone involved to walk away "now."
During the press conference, police said some
of the outside agitators have been known to the NYPD for years, adding
that they have seen an escalation in tactics police believe are the
result of guidance from outside agitators.
NYPD shared video of anti-Israel agitators breaking into a building at Columbia University through the windows overnight Monday.(NYPD)
For
example, police are seeing barricades being made out of furniture,
cameras being destroyed, de-arresting tactics, property destruction, and
signs being used to fortify and create shields.
Police
said even though the tactics really became exposed last night at
Columbia University, they expect it will continue across universities in
New York City and across the country.
In a video shown during the
press event, 63-year-old Lisa Fithian is seen watching a group of
protesters chant anti-Israel slogans.
"We’re trying to
document them being a- -holes," Lisa Fithian said to the camera person.
"You’re right. They are being a - -holes."
Fithian is a professional "protest consultant" who has been arrested over 80 times, Laura Ingraham of "The Ingraham Angle" said on her show Tuesday night.
Fithian has reportedly participated in protests on climate change, Occupy Wall Street, and now, the Free Palestine movement.
After
midnight Tuesday, Fithian was seen on video instructing a mob of
anti-Israel agitators as they took over an academic building at Columbia
University.
In
one video clip, protesters were seen carrying a table, while in the
background, Fithian could be heard saying, "I can’t help with that. You
guys can help with that."
NYPD officials said external actors at anti-Israel protests are introducing new protesting tactics.(NYPD)
In
another clip, the mob was seen attaching a piece of furniture to the
door of a building, while Fithian tells people with cameras to move
back.
During "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday evening, Ingraham
spoke with Ira Stoll, the founder and editor of theeditors.com, about
Fithian and what she gets out of helping to train the new generation of
activists.
"Some of the people involved are being paid money,"
Stoll said, explaining he authored an article for The Wall Street
Journal recently about how these groups are advertising for fellows to
be paid $3,000 to work eight hours a week for three months, on campuses
across the U.S. "Some of the people who have been quite prominently in
these protests have been paid fellows with hundreds of thousands of
dollars from the Soros Open Society Foundation and the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund.
"So, there’s big money behind these protests," Stoll added.
He also spoke about how many of the people at the anti-Israel protests taking place at campuses like Columbia University are the same people who attend Black Lives Matter protests, as well as anti-Trump protests.
"It’s the same people out protesting. I’ve seen them," Stoll said. "They just like to protest." He compared it to people who go out on weekends to play sports or go to religious services.
"This
is an activity for these people, and until the revolution is
accomplished, they’re not going to stop, or else until they are in
jail," he said.
Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.
In the “revitalized PA,” terrorists still reign as the PA’s superheroes
Planner of murder of 125, Abu Jihad, is “a lofty example of sacrifice, daring, and self-sacrifice”
Murderer of 37, Dalal Mughrabi, was “known for her daring, her courage"
Planner
of murder of 5, “fighting commander” Marwan Barghouti, is “a clear
national symbol and a model of inspiration for the masses of our people”
In the “revitalized PA,” terrorists still reign as the PA’s superheroes
Every year on the day of his death, the PA and Fatah celebrate arch-terrorist Abu Jihad as a great Palestinian leader and role model.
On several occasions, the PA has proudly bragged that Abu Jihad was
responsible for the murder of at least 125 Israelis in terror attacks.
This year, the US-propelled “revitalized” PA is no different. Terrorists
are still the PA’s ultimate role models.
1) Abu Jihad
Abu
Jihad was the mastermind of the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s
history prior to Hamas’ massacre on Oct. 7, 2023. In the “Coastal Road
massacre,” a group of Fatah terrorists hijacked an Israeli bus with
civilians and murdered 37, including 12 children.
To Fatah, Abu
Jihad is “a lofty example of sacrifice, daring, and self-sacrifice,” and
PA Chairman Abbas’ movement pledged again this year that it will
continue to follow terrorist Abu Jihad’s “principles” and “draw
inspiration from his opinions and ideas”:
“The Fatah
Movement emphasized that during his campaign of national struggle,
leader symbol Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist,
responsible for murder of 125) constituted a lofty example of sacrifice, daring, and self-sacrifice...
On the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of founding leader Abu Jihad, Fatah
said that it will not deviate from the principles and foundations that
were delineated by Martyr leader [Abu Jihad] since the outbreak of the
modern Palestinian revolution…
Fatah added that the
anniversary of leader Abu Jihad’s death as a Martyr… motivates us to
draw inspiration from his opinions and ideas.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 16, 2024]
To
stress its appreciation for Abu Jihad and his terror attacks, Fatah
posted a video of him encouraging terror, using the PA euphemism
“self-defense by all means”:
Khalil Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad”: “This desire will
never weaken under any circumstances. It is the desire of determination
and the desire to continue the struggle and the self-defense by all means (i.e., Palestinian term that also refers to the use of violence and terror).”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
April 16, 2024]
The timing of the rebroadcast of this
particular video in which Abu Jihad calls for continued “self-defense
by all means” is significant. The PA leadership, including Mahmoud
Abbas, the PA prime minister, and Abbas’ advisor, have all defined the
Oct. 7 atrocities as “self-defense”:
“[PA] President
[Mahmoud Abbas] instructed to provide defense to our people, and he
emphasized the Palestinian people’s right to self-defense.”
Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
“We are enacting our legitimate right in resisting these invaders
defending ourselves, and defending our holy sites and our people.”
“The
occupation (i.e., Israel) is the reason that makes the Palestinians
resist. The resistance is self-defense. It is a legal right. The
occupation is the one that contradicts international law.”
[Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Nov. 12, 2023]
2) Dalal Mughrabi
Another celebrated PA hero and role model is Dalal Mughrabi.
She led the group of Fatah terrorists from Lebanon who carried out the
murder of 37 people in the Coastal Road massacre in 1978. As with other
terror attacks, in order to justify the murders and to enhance its image
as being successful in terror, the PA falsely claimed that the dead
Israeli civilians were all “soldiers” and exaggerated the number of
Israeli victims, claiming that “hundreds on the Israeli side were killed
and wounded”:
Official PA TV reporter: "Dalal
Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist, led murder of 37), the young Palestinian
female fighter, known as the Bride of Jaffa. She shattered all the
occupation’s (i.e., Israel’s) expectations: How could a Palestinian
woman reach such a level of courage and lead an operation of hijacking a
bus of Israeli soldiers (sic., civilians) that caused the killing of
more than 30 Israelis in 1978 … Dalal and her squad…took over the bus
with all of its soldier passengers (sic.), while outside the bus, the
battle continued with other Israeli soldiers. Hundreds on the Israeli
side were killed and wounded (sic., 37 murdered, 70 wounded)."
[Official PA TV News, March 12, 2024]
In
both its official publications, the PA printed a long article praising
murderer Mughrabi for “her daring and her courage” and her “devotion to
Palestine.” (See full text below):
“Today [March 11,
2024] is the 46th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of Palestinian
fighter Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them
children). Fighter Mughrabi...decided to join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and to act in the ranks of the self-sacrificing fighters (Fedayeen) in the Fatah Movement while still a student. She took many military courses and received lessons in guerilla warfare, during which she trained with different weapons. While
taking these courses, she became known for her daring, her courage, her
well-developed national sentiment, and for her devotion to Palestine
and Fatah.”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, March 11, 2024;
Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2024]
Presenting
the eagerness to murder Israelis as an admirable quality, the PA
described the terrorists as ”competing” to be chosen to participate in
the attack, and “first among them Dalal Mughrabi, who was 20.” As
on TV, here too the PA lied, saying the dead Israeli civilians were
“soldiers” and that they numbered in the “hundreds.”
Marking
murderer Mughrabi’s death during the attack, Abbas’ Fatah Movement
stressed Mughrabi’s “will” and directive to all Palestinians to continue
to fight Israel and “escalate the conflict against the Zionist enemy”:
The article included an old poster featuring the 13 terrorists involved in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre. Text on poster:
“Dalal and her squad
Fatah and Palestine – Embrace until victory”
“Before
her Martyrdom, Dalal left a written last will in her handwriting to the
Palestinians, in which she wrote: ‘My last will to you all, my
rifle-bearing brothers, begins with freezing the secondary conflicts and
escalating the main conflict against the Zionist enemy and aiming the
rifles, all the rifles, at the Zionist enemy. What protects the
independence of the Palestinian decision is the firm rifles of all the
Palestinians. I say to all my brothers wherever they are to continue on
the same path we went on.’”
[Website of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture,
March 12, 2024]
In
another post, Fatah included photos of the bus that was hijacked and
destroyed by Dalal Mughrabi and her terror cell. [Fatah Commission of
Information and Culture, Facebook page, April 10, 2024]
3) Marwan Barghouti
A third Palestinian hero is imprisoned terrorist and PA Parliament Member Marwan Barghouti,
who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating 3 shooting attacks in
which 5 people were murdered. While imprisoned, he was re-elected to
the PA parliament and elected to Fatah's Central Committee. On the date
of his arrest, the PA and Fatah praised him as “a clear national symbol
and an inspiring model of struggle for the masses of our people” as well
as “a prominent symbol on the path of national struggle.” Fatah also
stressed Barghouti’s involvement in the two terror waves—the
intifadas—in which Palestinians murdered over 1,300 Israelis:
Fatah explained that fighting commander prisoner Marwan Barghouti still constitutes a prominent symbol on the path of national struggle, and noted his pioneering, national, and organizational role since he led the student movement, and afterwards his role on the ground during the first and second Intifadas (i.e.,
Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, approximately
200 Israelis murdered, 1987-1993; PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more
than 1,100 Israelis murdered).”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 15, 2023]
Palestinian Media Watch
reported last year that at a rally in honor of Barghouti, Fatah played
one of Barghouti’s speeches in which he urged terror and praised several terrorists
and terrorist murderers, including Hamas founders Ahmed Yassin and
Al-Rantisi, Abu Jihad, and Hamas bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash “the engineer.”
Fatah
also didn’t miss the opportunity to mark another attack planned by Abu
Jihad: The Savoy Hotel “operation.” Here too, terrorists sailed from
Lebanon and took over the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv, killing 3 and taking
hotel guests and staff hostage. When Israeli forces carried out a rescue
operation, the terrorists murdered 5 hostages and 3 soldiers. Here too,
Fatah exaggerated the number of Israelis killed, claiming “more than
100”:
Text of announcement: “On March 5, 1975, two squads of Fatah Movement self-sacrificing fighters carried out the Savoy Hotel operation.
The operation was planned by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad,’
in response to the crime of assassinating leaders Kamal Adwan, Kamal
Nasser (i.e., senior members of the Black September terror
organization), and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar (i.e., operations commander of
Black September) in 1973…
The operation led to the death of more than 100 Israelis (sic., 11).”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page,
March 5, 2024]
The PLO Commission of Prisoners’
Affairs and the PA-funded Prisoners’ Club praised Barghouti as a “leader
and national fighter” who “led the most brilliant and lofty form of
confrontation and struggle” – i.e., the second Intifada and the murder
of more than 1,100 Israelis in terror attacks:
Posted text: “A statement issued by the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club on the 22nd anniversary of the arrest of… leader, national fighter, and Fatah Movement Central Committee member Marwan Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, orchestrated three attacks in which 5 were murdered)…
His arrest was part of the path of recurring persecution, expulsion,
and assassination attempts by the occupation (i.e., Israel) against him
at the height of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more than 1,100 Israelis murdered) and in an attempt to [bring about its] collapse, as prisoner Barghouti led the Al-Aqsa Intifada, during which the Palestinian people and all the revolutionary forces presented the most brilliant and lofty form of confrontation and struggle against the occupation.”
[PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, Facebook page, April 15, 2024]
The following are longer excerpts of the statements cited above and additional reports on the 3 PA heroes:
Headline: “Fatah: We will continue the struggle
amid commitment to the principles of leader Abu Jihad, the attempts to
harm leader Marwan Barghouti will not weaken his willpower”
“The
Fatah Movement emphasized that during his campaign of national struggle,
leader symbol Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist,
responsible for murder of 125) constituted a lofty example of sacrifice, daring, and self-sacrifice, in order to extricate our people’s historical rights and complete its national liberation project.
In a statement yesterday, Monday [April 15, 2024], on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of founding leader Abu Jihad, Fatah
said it would not deviate from the principles and foundations that were
delineated by Martyr leader [Abu Jihad] since the outbreak of the
modern Palestinian revolution…
Fatah added that the
anniversary of leader Abu Jihad’s Martyrdom-death… motivates us to draw
inspiration from his opinions and ideas regarding the need for
national unity and the need to entrench in the national trench, distance
ourselves from secondary conflicts, and focus on the conflict with the occupation (i.e., Israel) and its colonialist project.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 16, 2024]
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960s - 1980s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the Coastal Road attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Posted text with the video above: “The 36th
anniversary of the death as a Martyr of Fatah Movement Central
Committee member Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist,
responsible for murder of 125), deputy general commander of the
Palestinian revolution.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, April 16, 2024]
Headline: “46 years since the death as a Martyr of fighter Dalal Mughrabi”
“Today [March 11, 2024] is (“yesterday was” in the official PA daily version of the article -Ed.) the 46th
anniversary of the Martyrdom-death of Palestinian fighter Dalal
Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children).
Fighter Mughrabi was born in 1958 in one of the Palestinian refugee
camps in Beirut. She was the daughter of a family from Jaffa that
escaped to Lebanon following the 1948 Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel)…
She decided to join the ranks of the Palestinian revolution and to act in the ranks of the self-sacrificing fighters (Fedayeen)
in the Fatah Movement while still a student. She took many military
courses and received lessons in guerilla warfare, during which she
trained with different weapons. While taking these courses, she
became known for her daring, her courage, her well-developed national
sentiment, and her devotion to Palestine and Fatah.
The
assassination of the three Fatah leaders Kamal Adwan, Kamal Nasser, and
Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar (i.e., terrorist organization leaders responsible
for the deaths of many Israelis) by the Israelis in 1973 had a negative
impact on Dalal. In addition, the incessant and despicable aggression
against the refugee camps caused her a feeling of bitterness, as did the
wretchedness in which her family lived – like the rest of the residents
of the refugee camps – as a result of their forced leaving, which would
not have taken place if not for the occupation of her land – Palestine –
by Israel. For this reason, Dalal – like the rest of her friends and
partners in grief from among the residents of the refugee camps – began
to be struck by negative and stormy feelings, which gave birth to a
determination within her to carry out an act that would satisfy her
desire [for revenge].
The Deir Yassin squad (i.e., Mughrabi’s
terror cell) presented the plan to Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir 'Abu
Jihad' (i.e., terrorist, responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis).
The plan was based on a landing operation on the Palestinian coast,
taking over a military bus, and setting out in the direction of Tel Aviv
in order to attack the Israeli Parliament building (a building which is
located in Jerusalem –Ed.). The self-sacrificing fighters competed
among themselves to participate, and first among them Dalal Mughrabi,
who was 20. She was selected to lead the squad that would carry out the
operation, which was made up of 10 self-sacrificing fighters.
The operation was known as the 'Kamal Adwan' operation, and the squad was known as 'Deir Yassin.’
On
the morning of March 11, 1978, Mughrabi disembarked from a boat passing
opposite the Palestinian coast together with her squad…
Dalal
and her squad succeeded in reaching Tel Aviv (sic., the terror squad
never reached Tel Aviv) and took over the bus with all of its soldier
passengers (sic., only civilian passengers were on the bus), while
outside the bus the battle continued with other Israeli soldiers.
Hundreds on the Israeli side were killed and wounded (sic., 37 murdered
and 70 wounded), and in light of the heavy losses, the Israeli
government assigned a special military unit – commanded by Ehud Barak
(then military commander and later prime minister of Israel –Ed.) – to
stop the bus and kill and arrest its passengers (sic., apparently
meaning the terror squad). [The military unit] used planes and tanks to
surround the self-sacrificing fighters, which caused Dalal Mughrabi to
blow up the bus with its passengers. As a result, the Israeli soldiers
were killed. The moment that [Dalal and her squad's] ammunition ran out,
Barak ordered to reap all of the self-sacrificing fighters with machine
guns, and all of them died as Martyrs (sic., 2 of the terrorists
survived).
It should be noted that the Israeli occupation
authorities are still holding the body of Martyr Dalal Mughrabi in the
'numbered cemeteries’ (i.e., Israeli cemeteries for temporary burial of
terrorists)."
[WAFA, official PA news agency, March 11, 2024;
Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2024]
Dalal Mughrabi – female Palestinian terrorist who led the attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
In text note: (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children)
Kamal Adwan and Kamal Nasser were both senior members of Black September, a secret branch of Fatah, who were killed by Israeli forces in April 1973. Kamal Nasser was also the spokesperson for the PLO and Fatah. Kamal Adwan was responsible for Fatah terrorist operations in Israel.
Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar - was Arafat's deputy and among the founders of Fatah. He was the Commander of Al-Asifa, Fatah's military unit, and a member of Fatah's Central Committee and the PLO's Executive Committee. He also was the Commander of Operations of the terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah, and involved in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972). He was killed by Israel in 1973.
Deir Yassin - On April 9, 1948, Jewish fighters from the Irgun and Lehi military groups, part of the forces opening the blockaded road to Jerusalem, attacked the Arab village of Deir Yassin. When the battle was over, the village had fallen and in addition to the Arab fighters killed, 107 civilians were also killed. Narratives differ as to whether the civilians were killed in the crossfire or were intentionally murdered by the Irgun and Lehi fighters.
The Cemeteries for Enemy Casualties (numbered cemeteries) are two burial sites maintained by the Israeli army for burying the bodies of enemy soldiers during wartime as well as terrorists. They are fenced and well-marked. Graves have markers instead of gravestones. Burial is temporary, as the bodies are eventually returned to their countries of origin. No ceremony is held. The bodies are buried in numbered caskets after their identities are documented.
Headline: “46 years since the Kamal Adwan operation and the Martyrdom of Dalal Mughrabi and the heroes of the Deir Yassin squad”
“On
March 11, 1978, 30 years after the Deir Yassin massacre (see note below
-Ed.), a self-sacrificing squad led by Martyr Dalal Mughrabi (i.e.,
terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children) set out by sea to
Haifa (i.e., an Israeli city) to carry out an operation that was planned
by Martyr [Khalil Al-Wazir] ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., terrorist, responsible
for murder of 125) in the heart of the occupied territories (sic.,
sovereign Israel). This squad was called ‘the Deir Yassin squad,’ and it
was led by Dalal Mughrabi ‘the Bride of Jaffa.’ In the operation, a bus
of soldiers (sic., all the passengers were civilians) was hijacked in
Israel in 1978, which led to the deaths of more than 30 Israelis. Dalal
died as a Martyr in the operation together with other resistance
fighters, and she is the one whom [poet] Nizar Qabbani said of her that
‘she established the Palestinian republic.’ …
Before her
Martyrdom, Dalal left a written last will in her handwriting to the
Palestinians, in which she wrote: ‘My last will to you all, my
rifle-bearing brothers, begins with freezing the secondary conflicts and
escalating the main conflict against the Zionist enemy and aiming the
rifles, all the rifles, at the Zionist enemy. What protects the
independence of the Palestinian decision is the firm rifles of all the
Palestinians. I say to all my brothers wherever they are to continue on
the same path we went on.’”
[Website of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, March 12, 2024]
Text on images: “51
years since the deaths as Martyrs of the three Fatah leaders Kamal
Adwan, Kamal Nasser (i.e., senior members of the Black September terror
organization), and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar (i.e., commander of operations of
Black September)
In 1978, the Deir Yassin squad led by Martyr Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children) succeeded
in carrying out the Martyr Kamal Adwan operation (i.e., terror attack),
and this operation was described as one of the operations that most
affected the occupation (i.e., Israel), which caused it to invade
Lebanon up to the Litani River as revenge for how the operation smashed
the Israeli security system.”
The image shows pictures of the bus that was hijacked and destroyed by Dalal Mughrabi and her terror cell.
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, April 10, 2024]
Text on poster: “Dalal and her squad
Fatah and Palestine – Embrace until victory”
Posted text: “39 years since the Savoy Hotel operation (i.e., terror attack, 11 murdered)”
The
images show an announcement; on the first image is a picture of Khalil
Al-Wazir “Abu Jihad,” who was responsible for the murder of 125. In the
upper left corner of each image is the Fatah logo that includes a
grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all
of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.”
Text of announcement: “On March 5, 1975, two squads of Fatah Movement self-sacrificing fighters carried out the Savoy Hotel operation.
The operation was planned by Martyr commander Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad,’
in response to the crime of assassinating leaders Kamal Adwan, Kamal
Nasser (i.e., senior members of Black September terror organization),
and Abu Yusuf Al-Najjar (i.e., commander of operations of Black
September) in 1973…
The operation led to the death of more than 100 Israelis (sic., 11),
the most prominent of whom was one of the officers who participated in
the assassination of the three leaders in Beirut, Uzi Be’eri (sic.,
refers to Israeli army Colonel Uzi Yairi; while Yairi was commander of
the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, PMW found no evidence he participated in
Operation Spring of Youth in which the three terror leaders were
killed).”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, March 5, 2024]
Savoy terror attack: In March 1975, eight terrorists traveled by boat from Lebanon to a Tel Aviv beach. They took over the Savoy Hotel and took guests as hostages. The next morning, Israeli forces attacked and killed seven of the terrorists. Eight hostages and three soldiers were killed by the terrorists during the attack.
Headline: “Fatah on the anniversary of Barghouti’s arrest: Fighting commander Marwanis a clear national symbol and a model of inspiration for the masses of our people”
“The Fatah Movement emphasized that fighting commander, Fatah Central Committee member, and prisoner Marwan Barghouti ‘Abu Al-Qassem’ (i.e., terrorist, orchestrated three attacks in which 5 were murdered) is a clear national symbol and an inspiring model of struggle for the masses of our people…
Fatah explained that fighting commander prisoner Marwan Barghouti still constitutes a prominent symbol on the path of national struggle, and noted his pioneering, national, and organizational role since he led the student movement, and afterwards his role on the ground during the first and second Intifadas (i.e.,
Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, approximately
200 Israelis murdered, 1987-1993; PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more
than 1,100 Israelis murdered).”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 15, 2023]
Marwan Barghouti – Palestinian terrorist and member of the Palestinian Authority parliament who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating three shooting attacks in which 5 people were murdered: one attack on the Jerusalem-Maale Adumim road (June 12, 2001) in which Greek Orthodox monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus was murdered by terrorists Ismail Radaida and Yasser Ah'Rabai, another attack at a gas station in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, 2002) in which Yoela Hen was murdered by terrorists led by Mohammed Matla, and one shooting and stabbing attack at the Seafood Market restaurant in Tel Aviv (March 5, 2002) in which Eli Dahan, Yosef Habi, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat, were murdered by terrorist Ibrahim Hasouna. When arrested by Israel in 2002, Barghouti headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected as a member of the Palestinian Authority parliament. On Dec. 4, 2016, he was elected to Fatah's Central Committee.
Headline: “Fatah on the 23rd anniversary of his arrest: The occupation’s attempts to target leader Marwan Barghouti will not weaken his willpower”
“The
Palestinian National Liberation Movement ‘Fatah’ said that fighter
leader and Fatah Central Committee member prisoner Marwan Barghouti ‘Abu
Al-Qassam’ (i.e., terrorist, orchestrated three attacks in which 5 were
murdered) has constituted a shining national example through his
struggles, sacrifices, and positions that constitute inspiration for the
masses of our people…
In a statement issued by the [Fatah]
Commission of Information, Culture, and Ideology today, Sunday [April
15, 2024], on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of his arrest, Fatah added… that fighting
leader prisoner Marwan Barghouti will remain a shining symbol in the
Palestinian national struggle campaign for liberation. As testimony of this, it brought his
pioneering, national, and organizational role ever since he led the
[Fatah] Shabiba Student Movement, and afterwards his role on the ground
during the first Intifada (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel, approximately 200 Israelis murdered, 1987-1993) and the second Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more than 1,100 Israelis murdered).”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, April 15, 2024]
The first Intifada - Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel 1987-1993, approximately 200 Israelis murdered
The second Intifada – PA terror campaign (2000-2005) in which more than 1,100 Israelis were murdered.
Posted text: “A statement issued by the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club on the 22nd anniversary of the arrest of free leader Marwan Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, orchestrated three attacks in which 5 were murdered)
Ramallah – Today [April 15, 2024] was the 22nd anniversary of the arrest of leader, national fighter, and Fatah Movement Central Committee member Marwan Barghouti, together
with prisoner fighter Ahmed Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, responsible for
murder of 12), who is nicknamed ‘the Frenchman.’ …
His arrest
was part of the path of recurring persecution, expulsion, and
assassination attempts by the occupation (i.e., Israel) against him at
the height of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (i.e., PA terror campaign 2000-2005, more than 1,100 Israelis murdered) and in an attempt to [bring about its] collapse, as prisoner
Barghouti led the Al-Aqsa Intifada, during which the Palestinian people
and all the revolutionary forces presented the most brilliant and lofty
form of confrontation and struggle against the occupation.”
[PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, Facebook page, April 15, 2024]
Ahmed Barghouti – Palestinian terrorist and commander of the terror organization the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah’s military wing) in the Ramallah region. Barghouti sent terrorists to shooting attacks in which 12 people were murdered. Among these attacks was the terror attack in the Seafood Market restaurant in Tel Aviv (March, 5, 2002) in which 3 people were murdered. Barghouti is serving 13 life sentences and another 50 years.
