Ilhan Omar, the star of Squad 2, is in trouble again. This time it’s for sending a donation to a D.C.-based nonprofit that has a close relationship with a Palestinian University infamous for having student leaders who are Hamas supporters.
Fox News Digital reviewed new FEC documents that show Omar’s campaign sent quietly $1,559.25 to the Palestine House of Freedom in September — a group located just one block from the U.S. Capitol and which claims it is fighting for “liberation of Palestine.”
On its website, the nonprofit organization, Dar Alhurriya (also known as Dar Al-Hurriya), boasts that it’s “dedicated” to liberating Palestine, “the destruction of Apartheid and the establishment a democratic, free state in Palestine from the river up to the sea.”
Extremists who want to eliminate Israel have used this slogan for years. The group is not hiding its agenda. The group doubles down on its online campaign, accusing Israel “of operating as an apartheid-state” and promising “to embark on an aggressive education campaign targeting everyone, from legislators, staff, media to the general population” in order to promote “a free democratic Palestine, from the River up to the Sea”.
It is unclear whether Omar attended an event or not, but the filing indicates that Omar paid for “event Tickets.”
In the spring of this year, Palestine House of Freedom held a fundraising event for Birzeit University. The university is known for its student elections, which are often won by Hamas affiliated factions, and for mock parades of “suicide-bomber”. This has earned the school the moniker “Terrorist University.”
Fox News Digital found in a review that Al-Wafaa, the Hamas-affiliated bloc at Birzeit has achieved multiple victories since the 1990s. This includes 2022 and even 2023. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ leader, told the Middle East Monitor after the 2023 election that it was “an extension” of the terrorist movement, as well as proof the Al-Wafaa bloc could “adapt to change, overcome complexity, and fill a void created through arrests, martyrdom or deportation.”
Haniyeh, who was later killed by IDF forces in Tehran, boasted that Hamas “is unbreakable”, and promised to fight “the oppressor and terrorists”
It’s not a single incident. Hamas militants cheered Birzeit’s victories as well in 2017.
Congress has taken notice. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich. sent a blistering message to Harvard in September. They criticized the Ivy League for its slowness at distancing themselves from that same institution.
Birzeit was branded as an “institution whose student population overwhelmingly supports Hamas”, and “an organization that explicitly endorses U.S. designated terrorist organizations.”
Omar has not yet commented on his history involving controversial remarks about Israel or Jewish donors.
