In a high-stakes operation in Western Gaza City, a specialized joint force from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security agency successfully captured Moein Al-Arabid, the head of Hamas’s internal security and intelligence apparatus.
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‼️⭕APPREHENDED: The Head of Hamas’ Internal Security in Gaza, as part of a targeted operation to remove threats posed by Hamas in northern Gaza.
The apprehended terrorist has recently worked to consolidate Hamas&#39; control over northern Gaza and to advance terrorist attacks…
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The capture marks a critical intelligence breakthrough for Israel. Often referred to as the leader of the &#8220;Palestinian Shin Bet,&#8221; Al-Arabid was grabbed near his home. <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/hamas-top-commander-captured-in-gaza-netanyahu-says-he-helped-hide-move-israeli-hostages-10304951.html#google_vignette">According</a> to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Al-Arabid played a pivotal role in managing internal intelligence, directing counter-intelligence, protecting senior leadership, and hiding and relocating Israeli hostages taken on October 7, 2023, during the horrific Hamas massacre.
Israeli officials further accused the former Qassam Brigades figure of attempting to reconstruct Hamas’s operational capabilities and restore its administrative governance in Gaza.
Al-Arabid&#8217;s capture provides Israel with an unprecedented window into the inner workings of Hamas’s security architecture and hostage-network infrastructure. The imperative to secure such high-level intelligence is underscored by the horrifying, documented atrocities of the October 7, 2023 attacks.
The full magnitude of October 7 is preserved in the IDF’s 47-minute <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/b1pnmg9up">unedited compilation</a> film, Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre. Assembled by reservists Yuval Horowitz and Matan Harel-Fisch, the raw footage captures a relentless killing spree across more than 30 southern Israeli communities and the Supernova music festival. Relying entirely on GoPro footage worn by terrorists, civilian dashcams, home security systems, and victim cell phones, the film provides undeniable courtroom evidence of unspeakable cruelty.
The visual record exposes terrorists firing point-blank into civilian vehicles, setting homes ablaze to force families out, and murdering toddlers in their beds. In one devastating CCTV sequence, a father leads his young sons into a bomb shelter before a militant throws a grenade inside, killing the father and leaving his wounded children to flee back into their home while the attacker calmly raids their refrigerator.
The film documents victims being executed, disfigured, stripped, and paraded through Gaza to cheering crowds, with terrorists celebrating and filming their actions in real time.
Beyond the raw footage, a <a href="https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_882e9391df384e169d29f16c0faefeac.pdf">landmark May 2026 report</a> by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes further illuminated the systematic nature of the violence. Based on more than 1,800 hours of analysis, the report concluded that Hamas utilized sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) as a calculated, integral weapon of war.
Investigators documented 13 distinct patterns of abuse, including gang rapes at the Supernova festival, sexual torture, postmortem mutilation, and &#8220;kinocidal&#8221; acts forcing family members to abuse each other. Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks recovered from dead militants contained explicit commands like &#8220;take off your pants.&#8221; The commission cited the documents as evidence supporting its conclusion that sexual violence was premeditated.
The apprehension of Moein Al-Arabid represents a monumental victory for Israeli intelligence. Interrogating the mastermind behind Hamas&#8217;s internal security offers Israel vital insights to dismantle Hamas’ remaining terrorist networks.

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The inspector general’s office for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) <a href="https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8198">reported</a> Wednesday that over 100 current and former staff members from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis.
Critics have warned for years that taxpayer-funded UNRWA is thoroughly infested with Hamas terrorists. Wednesday&#8217;s report was also shared by President Donald Trump.

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Despite the overwhelming evidence that the U.N. agency serves as a subsidized wing of Hamas, Democrat politicians are still begging to hand them more cash. Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has explicitly championed restoring U.S. taxpayer funding to UNRWA. Pushing a radical foreign policy platform that demands an end to military support for Israel, El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://abdulforsenate.com/priority/money-out-of-politics/#h-sensible-foreign-policy">officially calls</a> for an &#8220;immediate re-investment in foreign aid, including to UNRWA.&#8221;
El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign did not respond when asked by The Daily Wire if the Democratic candidate still wants to use U.S. tax dollars to re-invest in UNRWA after the troubling report.
According to federal watchdog records, the referrals detail UNRWA staffers actively engaged in horrific acts during the 2023 massacre. Among those flagged are former UNRWA school teachers who also acted as Hamas terrorists, including one who allegedly engaged in kidnapping, one who held civilian hostages, and another who commanded communications for terror cells from his post as a school principal. One former UNRWA social worker involved in kidnapping a civilian from Kibbutz Be’eri had his debarment proposal terminated only because he was already dead.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Investigations by the USAID Inspector General, dubbed &#8220;<a href="https://freebeacon.com/israel/exclusive-un-is-actively-obstructing-us-probe-into-links-between-its-gaza-relief-groups-and-hamas-as-americans-warn-un-to-divorce-cancerous-unrwa/">Operation Stop the Carousel</a>,&#8221; have been examining UNRWA-linked individuals suspected of terrorism. Yet, despite receiving billions in international backing, U.N. entities are actively stonewalling the probe. Watchdogs report that U.N. agencies, including UNICEF and the World Health Organization, have repeatedly refused to hand over employee records and payroll data, effectively shielding suspected Hamas terrorists.
Seized Hamas military records revealed that senior staff at UNRWA schools, including principals, deputy directors, and classroom teachers, were active fighters in the Qassam Brigades and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. UNRWA facilities were routinely earmarked as military hideouts and weapons depots, while Gaza residents openly acknowledged the agency&#8217;s terror ties as an open secret.
As U.N. Watch Director Hillel Neuer told Congress in January 2024, “As we have shown in numerous reports over the past decade, teachers and schools at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which runs education and social services for Palestinians, regularly call to murder Jews, and create teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis, and incite antisemitism.&#8221;
From 3,000-member teacher group chats<a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1744883114042658902"> celebrating</a> the October 7 massacres to classroom materials inciting violence against Jews, American tax dollars have systematically underwritten radicalization.
While figures like El-Sayed push to reopen the money flow, leaders in Washington are moving to shut it down forever. State Department officials and key lawmakers are calling for UNRWA to be permanently dismantled.

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Rose City Antifa, one of the oldest and most active Antifa organizations in America, relied on the same foreign technology collective that provided digital infrastructure to groups connected to Hamas, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, according to a recently released State Department memo.
The memo was first reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-state-dept-reveals-portland-antifa-connection-hamas-irans-irgc-sweeping-terror-action">Fox News</a> on Wednesday as the Trump administration escalated its campaign against what it describes as transnational far-Left terrorism. 
The State Department designated the Italy-based Autistici/Inventati, known as the A/I Collective, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and accused the group of providing encrypted communications, web hosting, secure video conferencing, streaming and anonymity services to violent extremist organizations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the collective’s services were used by “the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world.”
“Far-Left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West,” Rubio wrote on X. “There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities.”
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The State Department memo specifically identifies Portland-based Rose City Antifa as one of the American groups that used A/I Collective infrastructure. The group, which has operated in Portland, Oregon, for almost two decades, has been repeatedly associated with violent clashes, property destruction, and attacks on law enforcement. The city has long been a major center of Antifa activity, including during the 2020 George Floyd riots and more recent confrontations over immigration enforcement.
According to the State Department, Rose City Antifa used A/I Collective tools to organize and encourage violent and criminal activity, including distributing a flyer encouraging supporters to aim lasers at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopters. The memo says at least one person responded to the call and later pleaded guilty to aiming a laser at a CBP helicopter, forcing the aircraft to abort a planned landing. Rose City Antifa also allegedly used the infrastructure to disseminate personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and encourage attacks against ICE agents both at their homes and in public.
But the Portland group&#8217;s connection to the A/I Collective extends into a much broader international network. The State Department says the same technology infrastructure was used by a media organization to disseminate information to terrorist organizations Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the PFLP. The A/I Collective reportedly operates thousands of digital services, including roughly 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs. The State Department says its services have been used by extremists to distribute propaganda, information on targets, tactical manuals, and claims of responsibility for attacks. The collective also allegedly tests users for Left-wing alignment before allowing them access to services, according to the State Department.
The designation represents another step in the Trump administration&#8217;s broader effort to treat violent far-Left networks as a counterterrorism problem rather than just a domestic protest movement. President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-designates-antifa-a-major-terrorist-organization">designated</a> Antifa a domestic terrorist organization in 2025 following a series of violent confrontations involving activists and federal immigration authorities. The administration has since pursued terrorism charges against alleged Antifa militants involved in an armed attack on an ICE detention facility in Texas and has pushed international governments to cooperate against what it describes as transnational political extremism.
The administration&#8217;s focus has increasingly extended beyond individual violent actors to the infrastructure supporting them. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Wednesday that the administration would target those who provide financial and logistical support to violent far-Left groups. 
“Far-Left extremists, their fronts, and their enablers should be on notice: We will bring the full weight of our economic tools to bear,” Bessent told Fox News. “Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.”
Rubio said the administration would continue using its counterterrorism and economic authorities against the networks. 
“We will use all the tools and authorities at our disposal to fight terrorism and protect our way of life from terrorist coercion,” Rubio said.

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A questionable consensus has hardened on the Democratic Left. Israel, we are told with certainty, sits at the eye of American political power, its lobby the most potent, its money the most corrosive, and its influence the real reason United States policy bends and folds the way it does. The claim is repeated so often, and with such confidence, that it has begun to pass for common knowledge. It is also being deployed, quite deliberately, as a midterm strategy.
According to the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/fara">OpenSecrets</a> compilation of Foreign Agents Registration Act filings since 2016, Israel ranks tenth in total foreign lobbying spending. China, Qatar, Japan, Liberia, and Saudi Arabia all stand higher, and several other states outrank it as well. 
<a href="https://aipac.org/truth-lobbying">Israel</a> is not the largest foreign lobbyist operating in the United States by this measure.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/22/mamdani-called-aipac-dark-money-monsters-none-of-the-candidates-seem-to-care-00970873">Zohran Mamdani</a> has called AIPAC “monsters” who move “millions in dark money” to preserve their power, turn Americans against one another, and obstruct an end to what he terms genocide. <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-aipac-two-masters-israel-most-egregious-example">Abdul El-Sayed</a> has described Israel as “the most egregious” foreign government shaping American politics and declared that “our foreign policy has been handed to us by the likes of the State of Israel and AIPAC.”
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/24/axios-show-bernie-sanders-aipac-oligarchy">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)</a> has cast the same organization as part of a billionaire oligarchy that systematically defeats progressive critics while shielding Netanyahu. <a href="https://allisraelnews.com/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-us-congress-is-overly-influenced-by-aipac">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)</a> has said Congress is “overly influenced” by AIPAC and labeled it an extremist organization that destabilizes American democracy. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/aipac-congress-democrats.html">Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)</a> has asked why other interest groups may be scrutinized while the most “powerful lobbying group” pushing “allegiance to a foreign country” remains insulated, reducing the entire relationship to “all about the Benjamins.”
These statements are more than isolated criticisms. They form a working political agenda that turns policy disagreement into a story of external control and compromised government institutions.
Sixty percent of U.S. adults now hold an <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-israel-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/">unfavorable</a> view of Israel, up from 53% last year. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, the number is far higher: eight in 10 view Israel unfavorably, up from 69% a year ago and 53% in 2022. Democrats under 50 years old are especially negative, with nearly half saying their view is very unfavorable. One recent survey also found that nearly three in 10 young Americans now view Jews as a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/nearly-one-third-of-young-americans-view-jews-as-a-threat-to-society-poll/">threat</a> to society. 
Candidates who keep calling Israel the biggest foreign lobby are both speaking to and helping expand an audience that has already moved sharply against the Middle East nation, especially among younger Democrats. The claim encourages the belief that the American government itself is aligned with and controlled by Israel. For socialist and DSA-aligned activists, that picture is unifying. Their attitude is encapsulated by the Faust quote: &#8220;For all that comes into being deserves to perish.&#8221; It is a way of seeing the world that takes less intellectual effort and is more seductive.
That concentration of attention is harder to justify when larger foreign influences are taken into account. Qatar has directed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/qatars-billions-raise-new-questions-about-foreign-influence-on-campus">billions</a> into American universities, financing socialist student organizations on campuses, research centers, and academic programming that shape how students understand the Middle East and the Jewish state. 
At the same time, a longer-running network with documented ties to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-hearing-pulls-back-curtain-on-muslim-brotherhoods-ties-to-hamas">Muslim Brotherhood</a> and Hamas-supporting infrastructure has spent decades building influence through nonprofits, campus organizing, and educational programming. The 2008 Holy Land Foundation case and later Senate testimony showed this network continuing to operate. This operation helps produce a younger cohort already primed to see Israel as uniquely illegitimate and powerful, which makes the progressive claim that Israel is the top foreign lobby land more easily and turn more readily into votes.
China has spent heavily through its own channels, advancing influence that frequently aligns with socialist and communist political ideologies, and the Foreign Agents Registration Act database shows multiple countries exceeding Israel’s registered foreign agent spending. A movement truly focused on foreign influence would examine the largest spenders and the most embedded ideological networks with equal criticism.
In a midterm cycle in which Democrats are still trying to take back the House, calling Israel the biggest foreign lobby remains useful even when the numbers say otherwise. If they win the chamber, they regain the power to investigate and, if the politics allow it, try to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/4539460/republicans-cant-take-2026-midterm-elections-for-granted/">impeach</a> President Trump again. That is why the claim continues. It is not sustained by the data; it’s sustained by what it can still deliver in an election year.

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The Washington Post has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/washington-post-karen-attiah.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.plFf.yI_cDbktFcRd&amp;smid=url-share">ordered</a> by a private arbitrator to rehire opinion columnist Karen Attiah and hand over full back pay to the woman who issued a social media post seemingly mocking the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk.
Attiah was booted from the paper last September after unleashing a series of jaw-dropping social media posts following Kirk’s assassination. Attiah took to Bluesky to mock the public grief surrounding the killing, writing, “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence.”
She also falsely claimed Kirk had stated, “Black women do not have the brain-processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot.”
Journalist Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-washington-post-columnist-fired-over-charlie-kirk-comments">noted</a> that Attiah’s quote was inaccurate as she implied Kirk was referring to all black women when, in reality, he was targeting former first lady Michelle Obama, the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), former MSNBC host Joy Reid, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Despite Post executives having deemed her remarks &#8220;beyond the pale,&#8221; &#8220;gross misconduct,&#8221; and a breach of company standards, arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa ruled last week that the paper lacked &#8220;good and sufficient cause&#8221; to fire her, claiming the outlet violated its labor agreement, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Attiah’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-columnist-celebrates-anti-jew-terrorism-as-exactly-what-decolonization-means">history of radical takes</a> stretches far beyond mocking Kirk. Back in October 2023, on the very day Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 innocent civilians in Israel, Attiah reposted rhetoric justifying terrorism, such as &#8220;what did y&#8217;all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? Losers.&#8221; She also reposted someone who stated, &#8220;All my American education taught was that all we have to do to fight brutal, racist oppression is schedule a single die-in or refuse to give up a single seat on a bus and justice automatically prevails through non-violence.&#8221;
Meanwhile, she boasted of her radical academic credentials: &#8220;I studied race construction, human rights and global anti-colonial resistance in college and grad school. Honey, we did the scholarship way before it was &#8216;cool.'&#8221;
Attiah even looked as if she were justifying raw violence by non-state actors, claiming that public opinion was shifting toward anti-Israel extremism and echoing posts that seemingly accused defenders of Israel of siding with &#8220;oppressors, murderers, thieves and political manipulators.&#8221;
Attiah celebrated the arbitrator&#8217;s ruling, calling the Post &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s most storied newspapers&#8221; and claiming she was &#8220;relieved to finally have that record set straight.&#8221;

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New court records show that the mother of Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed worked for an American-based Islamic charity later designated by the federal government as a terrorism supporter, after the organization was accused of financially supporting Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and Hamas.
Fatten Fathy Elkomy, El-Sayed’s birth mother, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), also known as the Islamic African Relief Agency, from 1999 through at least 2004, according to records first reported by the <a href="https://www.themidwesterner.news/2026/08/docs-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-for-designated-terror-group-iara-that-provided-direct-financial-support-to-osama-bin-laden-taliban-hamas">Midwesterner</a>. The Treasury Department designated IARA a global terrorist organization in October 2004.
The Treasury Department <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/js2026">accused</a> IARA’s international offices of providing “direct financial support” to bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations. 
The Treasury designation said IARA had been affiliated with Maktab al-Khidamat, an organization co-founded and financed by bin Laden that was a precursor to al-Qaeda. According to the department, IARA and bin Laden’s network had commingled funds and cooperated in fundraising and spending. An IARA program also worked with an institute controlled by bin Laden that provided assistance to Taliban fighters, Treasury said.
The department further said that information available to the U.S. government showed that overseas IARA branches provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to bin Laden in 1999. 
IARA&#8217;s American operation was later separately prosecuted by the Justice Department over illegal transfers to Iraq. In 2016, IARA-USA <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/iara-pleads-guilty-transferring-nearly-14-million-iraq-violation-sanctions?">pleaded guilty</a> to conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and other offenses after secretly transferring $1.375 million to Iraq. 
Federal prosecutors said the organization had used its tax-exempt status to solicit donations while concealing prohibited transfers. The organization was subsequently dissolved. 
Several IARA officials and employees were also prosecuted. Executive Director Mubarak Hamed received nearly five years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to illegally transfer more than $1 million to Iraq, obstructing tax laws, and lying to federal agents. Another top IARA fundraiser pleaded guilty to conspiring to lobby for the organization’s removal from a government list of charities suspected of terrorist ties. 
Elkomy was not charged in the federal case or named as a co-conspirator, and the court records cited here do not establish that she knowingly supported terrorism.
In a 2004 interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Elkomy defended her work for IARA, saying she was helping orphans and children who had lost a parent. 
“I’ve been working there serving orphans and children with at least one deceased parent, and it breaks my heart they’re not going to get any help,” Elkomy said at the time.
Court records from the subsequent IARA prosecution nevertheless reference Elkomy multiple times. According to the Midwesterner’s review of the government&#8217;s proposed exhibit list, her name appears in 14 exhibits, including records involving eight wire transfers and five recorded telephone calls between 1999 and 2002. 
One document concerned an IARA-USA request to transfer $24,607.34 to its Iraq office.
The revelation comes as El-Sayed, who narrowly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-secures-far-lefts-biggest-victory-yet-over-dem-establishment">won the Democratic nomination</a> for Michigan’s open Senate seat earlier this month, campaigns to become the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. He will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
The newly uncovered records add to previously reported connections between El-Sayed’s family and organizations with documented ties to Islamist networks. His father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/abdul-el-sayeds-father-in-law-a-top-donor-to-an-el-sayed-super-pac-is-among-top-leaders-of-muslim-brotherhood-organization-linked-to-terror-funding/">has served</a> on the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) since at least 2007 and previously served as president of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Jukaku has also contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Fighting for Michigan PAC, a super PAC supporting El-Sayed. 
Both ISNA and CAIR were identified as unindicted co-conspirators in the federal Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing case. Federal prosecutors claimed that the Holy Land Foundation funneled more than $12 million to Hamas, while a federal judge later found that the government had presented ample evidence connecting ISNA and CAIR to Hamas. 
The family connections come as El-Sayed has faced scrutiny over his own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-dedicated-his-life-to-sharia-law">past statements </a>concerning Islam and Sharia law. As a 24-year-old medical student in 2009, El-Sayed told The New York Times that he had chosen a Sharia-compliant mortgage because he did not want to reach the end of his life having failed to follow Islamic law.
“Ultimately, the question is, when I die and I stand before God and go through everything I did in my life, I don’t want to say I did it the easy way instead of the Sharia-compliant way,” El-Sayed said at the time.
The Daily Wire reached out to El-Sayed’s campaign for comment but did not receive a response before publication.

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High-ranking United Nations officials are facing fierce backlash after lighting a tribute flame for a man now exposed as a Hamas field commander and terrorist who spent years running U.N.-funded schools while actively recruiting for terror networks.
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In an explosive <a href="https://unwatch.org/un-leaders-lit-an-eternal-flame-for-a-hamas-commander/">open letter</a> penned last week, U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer demanded that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and U.N. General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock issue an immediate retraction and a public apology to the victims of Hamas.
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The outrage stems from a June 8 memorial service where top U.N. brass honored fallen agency personnel. Among those memorialized was Imad El Samhouri, a longtime teacher and principal for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
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There was just one massive problem: El Samhouri wasn&#8217;t only an educator; he was a terrorist.
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A recently released Hamas &#8220;<a href="https://t.me/alqessam1/6161">martyr video</a>&#8221; blew the lid off El Samhouri&#8217;s double life. The footage revealed he served as a field commander in the Muhammad al-Shamali Battalion of Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades. The video showed the &#8220;educator&#8221; emerging from underground terror tunnels, brandishing machine guns and grenades, and openly declaring that jihad and death were his ultimate aspirations.
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According to U.N. Watch, El Samhouri didn&#8217;t bother hiding his extreme loyalties. His public social media accounts <a href="https://x.com/HillelNeuer/status/2087955082876739840">featured posts</a> praising the murder and kidnapping of Israelis, alongside photos with high-ranking Hamas figures. Even worse, he routinely invited terror officials into his UNRWA classrooms, using school grounds to host terrorists and recruit young Palestinian students into Hamas-affiliated networks.
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&#8220;[H]ow many UNRWA teachers must emerge from Hamas tunnels before you admit that the terrorists are not merely beneath UNRWA’s schools, but actually inside them?&#8221; Neuer wrote in his blistering letter.
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The revelations about El Samhouri are just the tip of the iceberg. USAID investigators have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-administration-probes-unrwa-over-alleged-employment-1500-terrorists">probed ties</a> involving at least 1,500 current and former UNRWA staff, referring over 100 individuals to the State Department for potential exclusion from U.S. funding. Furthermore, Israeli intelligence documents previously revealed that dozens of UNRWA school administrators doubled as active Hamas fighters.
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Neuer is now calling for a full, independent investigation into how a terrorist commander managed to direct UN schools for over a decade without agency leadership batting an eye. He also pushed for criminal prosecutions of complicit officials and urged international donors to immediately halt funding to the agency.
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Annalena Baerbock at the UN

Top U.N. Brass Lit ‘Eternal Flame’ For Hamas Terror Commander

United Nations

An elite Pennsylvania liberal arts college agreed to sweeping changes after a lawsuit said the school allowed its campus to become a hotbed for radicalism, with open glorification of the terrorist group Hamas and antisemitic harassment by students.
Haverford College has <a href="https://www.haverford.edu/institutional-diversity-equity-and-access/combating-antisemitism">settled</a> with a group of Jewish students who sued the school in federal court in 2024. The students accused administrators of failing to protect them from discrimination and harassment because they were Jewish. 
The lawsuit detailed a campus environment where Hamas-supporting rhetoric became increasingly intertwined with hostility toward Jewish students. Masked protesters disrupted events, activists favorably shared images of Hamas paragliders during the October 7 attack, and a professor called for support for the “Palestinian resistance” just days after the attack.
Under the agreement, Haverford will explicitly state that Jewish, Israeli, and Zionist students are welcome on campus and that discrimination and harassment targeting them violates college policy and can result in disciplinary action. 
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The settlement also requires Haverford to establish a new Civil Rights Director to handle antisemitism complaints, create an Antisemitism Committee, require annual antisemitism training for students and employees, and provide equal security for events sponsored by Jewish, Israeli, or Zionist groups. It will require masked individuals to identify themselves to campus officials when circumstances warrant it.
The students were represented by The Deborah Project, a nonprofit legal organization that represents Jewish students and faculty facing antisemitism in education.
According to the lawsuit, Jewish students faced hostility in classrooms, student forums, campus events, and even extracurricular activities, while administrators repeatedly failed to intervene or treated complaints as matters for students to resolve themselves. The campus environment became so hostile that administrators were warned that Jewish students felt physically threatened as Hamas-supporting rhetoric continued. 
During an encampment in April 2024, one Jewish student wrote to the Haverford President Wendy Raymond that protesters were using bullhorns to chant from the Hamas Charter and accuse Israel of genocide. 
“As a Jew I experience this conduct exactly as these people intend for me to experience it: as grossly demeaning, insulting and, most important, physically threatening. Glorying in Hamas’s conduct, and insisting that Israel do nothing to stop Hamas from doing it again, can’t be anything other than a threat to Jews,” the student wrote.
The lawsuit says one image circulated among Haverford students immediately after October 7 that featured a paraglider alongside the words “Stand with Palestinian resistance.” Hamas terrorists had used paragliders to infiltrate Israel for its massacre of Israeli civilians.
The complaint says the image was circulated as part of a series of posts that Jewish students viewed as celebrating or justifying the Hamas attack. 
Haverford math professor Tarik Aougab also came under scrutiny for his social media activity following the attack.
According to the lawsuit, Aougab publicly praised the October 7 atrocities on October 11, calling for “unequivocal and firm support for the Palestinian resistance” and reposting a message stating that defenders of Hamas’ attack “should never have to apologize for celebrating the scenes of an imprisoned people breaking free from their chains.”
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Aougab later attacked Haverford students who supported Israel, calling them “racist genocidaires,” and announced that he would not provide recommendations for students seeking to study in Israel, according to the complaint. 
When Jewish students asked Raymond about Aougab reposting a photograph of a bulldozer breaking through the barrier between Gaza and Israel at the beginning of the Hamas attack, the lawsuit says Raymond responded that the post “could be perceived in many ways.”
When pressed on how she perceived it, Raymond said she “heard people breaking free from their chains.” She also allegedly described some of the Gazans who crossed into Israel through the destroyed fence on October 7 as “peaceful.” 
In spring 2024, Haverford hired Christopher R. Rogers as a visiting professor, despite him also publicly praising Hamas’ attack. Rogers reposted a tweet on October 7 featuring bulldozers breaking into Israel with the caption “beautiful sights to wake up to this morning.” He himself posted, “It’s an all day shout out to Chester love and Palestinian self-determination” during the attack. 
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Rogers is wearing a keffiyeh in his official photograph on the <a href="https://www.haverford.edu/users/crrogers">Haverford website</a>.
The plaintiffs said that, to their knowledge, Haverford did not investigate or discipline professors over their social media posts supporting October 7. By contrast, they point out that Jewish-Israeli professor Barak Mendelsohn was investigated after criticizing a ceasefire petition and writing that its supporters appeared to ignore the “massacre, beheading, mutilation, and burning” of Israeli civilians by Hamas, before calling some of the petition’s supporters “Hamas apologists.” He posted that Haverford had a “Jewish problem,” that its student body was “led by Hamas apologists,” and that he would not send a Jewish student there.
The investigation found that Mendelsohn had not engaged in “discrimination or harassment,” but concluded that his conduct was “inconsistent with the College’s expectations of its faculty.”
The lawsuit also describes a September 30, 2024, antisemitism event featuring the Anti-Defamation League that was disrupted by masked protesters.
An alumna who witnessed the demonstration told Raymond that protesters gathered outside the event while shouting threatening slogans, carrying signs reading “No Zionists on campus,” and “shouting their support for the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas.” Most of the demonstrators had their faces covered with masks, according to the alumna.
The protesters shouted “from Gaza to Lebanon Israel must be gone,” “Stand up fight back,” and “by whatever means necessary&#8221; and banged on pots and shouted through a megaphone to disrupt the presentation. 
The lawsuit says university president Raymond was physically present and witnessed the disruption but did not intervene or issue a statement after the event.
Raymond was later pressed about the incident during a May 7, 2025, congressional hearing. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) asked what would happen if a student walked across Haverford’s campus holding a sign reading “No Blacks on campus.” 
Raymond said there would be “no room for discrimination,” prompting Fine to point out that students had held a “No Zionists on campus” sign at the September 30, 2024, protest where Raymond was present, without consequence.
“But there is room!” Fine told her. “Because at your campus, in front of you at a protest, students held up a sign saying ‘No Zionists on campus.’” 
During Haverford’s spring 2024 anti-Israel encampment, which protesters declared a “Liberated Zone,” posters were present quoting Hamas to advocate for the destruction of the Jewish state, as well as chants of “long live the Intifadah,” according to the lawsuit.
The protesters occupied the center of campus for at least three days and blocked access to Founders’ Hall — a central building on campus. Students who did not express support for the protesters’ goals were allegedly shouted at and insulted. 
Haverford also directed Jewish students to the student-run Honor Council to address complaints of antisemitism and harassment, despite allegations that some Honor Council members themselves allegedly participated in the attacks on Jewish students.
The lawsuit alleges that the Honor Code divided students into “marginalized” and “privileged” groups, resulting in different standards of treatment based on those labels. Anti-Israel students allegedly used that framework to portray Jews committed to Israel as inherently “privileged” and to bully or silence them.
In announcing the settlement, Raymond acknowledged that members of the Haverford community committed to Israel as the Jewish homeland had been “deeply hurt” by events following October 7.
“That constitutes a failure on our part,” Raymond said. “We commit ourselves to doing better going forward.”
The settlement has nevertheless drawn criticism from the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which <a href="https://pa.cair.com/pressrelease/haverford-zionism/">argued</a> that Haverford went too far by treating Zionism as a protected identity.
“Jewish students deserve protection from antisemitism, harassment, and discrimination. Palestinian students deserve those same protections,” said Dr. Ahmet Tekelioglu, executive director of CAIR-Philadelphia. “But no political ideology should be placed beyond criticism at an institution whose mission is supposed to center intellectual inquiry and the pursuit of truth.”
Tekelioglu argued that protecting Jewish students does not mean shielding Zionism from criticism.
“Protecting Jewish people is not the same as protecting Zionism from criticism,” he said. “A student’s Jewish identity is not a political ideology, and criticism of Zionism or advocacy for Palestinian rights should not be presumed to constitute hostility toward Jewish people.”
Texas and Florida moved to designate CAIR as a terrorist organization in 2025 under state law, but these designations are currently frozen or delayed due to active federal lawsuits.

Pro-Palestinians Protesters Urge USC To Divest From Israel

Liberal University Gives In After Student Lawsuit Said Campus Became Hamas Hotbed

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Pennsylvania

Randy Fine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that Israel rejects President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza. 
He said the Israeli military will not pull back a single step until Hamas is stripped of every weapon it holds, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-rejects-trumps-15-point-plan-gaza-pm-netanyahu-says-2026-08-09/">according</a> to Reuters.
“Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting. “The military will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed … it means heavy weaponry, lighter weaponry, all weaponry.”
He had made the same point Tuesday in a social media post. Israeli officials have already shared their reservations with Washington. Netanyahu said the two sides are still talking. “They have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some of which are unacceptable to us,&#8221; he said of the Americans.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-touts-a-historic-gaza-disarmament-agreement?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Touts+A+%E2%80%98Historic%E2%80%99+Gaza+Disarmament+Agreement">announced</a> the deal late last month and called it a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every other armed group in Gaza. The framework, negotiated with Arab mediators in Cairo and overseen by Trump&#8217;s Board of Peace, laid out a phased process.
Hamas would surrender both heavy and light weapons over several months, disclose the locations of tunnels and weapons depots, and allow a new Palestinian technocratic administration to take control under the Board’s supervision. 
Israeli forces would leave only after areas were independently verified as demilitarized. An international stabilization force would then work with a new Palestinian police unit to keep order. Trump said that the arrangement would finally stop Gaza from being used as a launchpad for attacks and give Israel the security it needs.
That second phase was meant to follow the October 2025 ceasefire, which covered the exchange of hostages and prisoners and brought a sharp decline in intensive fighting. The new document tackled the harder issues which were complete disarmament, Israeli withdrawal, and who actually runs Gaza afterwards.
The two sides immediately disagreed on the order of those steps. Israel insists on complete disarmament first. The plan describes a more deliberate process in which weapons are removed sector by sector and Israeli troops then leave those cleared areas. 
The Board of Peace has <a href="https://x.com/BoardOfPeace/status/2084333685869084696">said</a> Israeli forces will not withdraw beyond current lines until Hamas&#8217;s weapons are fully decommissioned. Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace&#8217;s highest representative for Gaza, has met with Netanyahu repeatedly in recent months, most recently on Monday, when he pressed Israel to stop airstrikes and abide by the terms of the earlier ceasefire.
Israel has already changed how it operates on the ground. Attacks have been scaled back since Monday, when Mladenov met with Netanyahu. A source familiar with Israel’s position told Reuters the military is now limited to responding to only to what it sees as immediate threats. 
Approval for any remaining strikes was tightened so that the chief of staff must sign off rather than subordinate commanders, <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjoyhyjlzx">according</a> to Ynet Global.
The Israeli military reported <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-rejects-trump-plan-for-hamas-disarmament-2d1475cb?mod=middle-east_news_article_pos1">no strikes</a> in Gaza for six days as of Sunday. Netanyahu said the military will continue to act against threats to Israeli forces and citizens.
Hamas says it remains committed to the plan agreed upon in Cairo about ten days ago. Senior official Basem Naim told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-rejects-trumps-15-point-plan-gaza-pm-netanyahu-says-2026-08-09/">Reuters</a> the group expects the mediators and the United States to press Netanyahu and his government to stick to the plan and not obstruct it for internal political or electoral reasons. 
Hamas avoids the word “disarmament.” It describes the arrangement as handing weapons over for storage under a U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic administration supervised by the Board of Peace. Hamas also insists that implementation depends on Israel first meeting its own commitments, withdrawal and a halt to attacks.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich praised Netanyahu’s stand. “We went to war with a central goal: the destruction of Hamas,” he said. “The [military] cannot withdraw even a millimeter from the Gaza Strip.”
Netanyahu is under pressure on multiple fronts. An election is scheduled for October 27, and polls show him struggling to put together a ruling majority. His coalition partners have objected loudly to any concessions. 
At the same time the Trump administration has pushed hard for progress on the plan, treating it as a major foreign policy goal of the president’s second term. Relations between the two leaders have been strained for months amid differences over the Iran conflict, with reports of tense phone calls.
Israeli forces still control and have largely emptied two-thirds of the enclave. More than two million residents are confined to a narrow coastal strip under Hamas control, most living in makeshift tents or damaged buildings.

Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s Gaza Plan: No Withdrawal Until Hamas Gives Up ‘All Weaponry’

Benjamin Netanyahu

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Iran war

Trump

Speaking at a hearing on Wednesday about the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood network across America, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) denounced the five Senate Democrats who refused to attend the hearing.
Cruz laid into Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, who announced on Tuesday that they would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-boycott-hearing-on-muslim-brotherhood">refuse to participate</a> in the hearing focused on Muslim Brotherhood networks within the United States.
&#8220;You may notice that there are empty chairs on the Democrat side of the dais,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;The American people should ask themselves why not a single member of the minority decided that a hearing on terrorism was worth their time. It is an embarrassment and a disservice to the thousands of American victims of the Muslim Brotherhood. History has taught Americans the danger of dismissing determined jihadist movements because their ambitions seem too extreme to be real.&#8221;
Cruz continued:
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The present members of this subcommittee will look at two questions. First, how the Muslim Brotherhood built its network in America. And second, what that network looks like today. The Muslim Brotherhood spawned Hamas, influenced the ideology of Al-Qaeda, and gave rise to multiple terrorist organizations. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and now the United States have all designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. 
Abdul El-Sayed, the son-in-law of a leading member of several Brotherhood groups, won Michigan&#8217;s Democrat primary for U.S. Senate. Perfect timing for this hearing. Probably explains why no Democrats are here and none intend to attend because their campaign is now openly embracing terrorist organizations waging war on America. Behind El-Sayed&#8217;s political rise sits a much older and more entrenched institutional network two major parties refuses even to see, is exactly the outcome these organizations that we&#8217;re discussing have spent 40 years working to produce.
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Sen. Ted Cruz ripped the Dem boycott of the Muslim Brotherhood hearing as &quot;an embarrassment,&quot; tying Democrats&#39; absence to Abdul El-Sayed&#39;s Michigan Senate primary win. 
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The Democrat boycott targeted a session organized by Cruz titled “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America.” The proceeding aligned with broader initiatives by national and state Republicans aimed at cracking down on the group, which included proposals to classify its various branches as terrorist organizations.
In a joint <a href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/senate-judiciary-courts-subcommittee-democrats-blast-cruzs-hearing-targeting-the-muslim-community/">statement</a>, Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Peter Welch (D-VT) sharply criticized the panel’s focus, writing, “Scapegoating Muslims may be a Texas Republican strategist’s idea of ‘solid gold’ to whip up their voters, but Democrats have no intention of indulging this political creepshow, particularly after the recent violence targeting places of faith. Our focus is the costs families face thanks to rampant, non-stop Trump corruption.”
During the hearing, Cruz questioned expert witnesses Lara Burns, Arielle Klepach, and Kyle Shideler regarding the domestic presence and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Burns, the head of terrorism research at the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University, emphasized that the infrastructure supporting foreign terrorist organizations operates inside the U.S. under the guise of charity and advocacy. She testified:
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A dangerous myth about foreign terrorist organizations persists in the United States, that the infrastructure supporting them exists only overseas. In reality, these support infrastructures have existed inside the U.S. for decades. They operate through financial, propaganda, and organizational support networks and commonly hide under the cover of charity, advocacy, or activism.
In 1993, leaders of the Palestine Committee held a meeting known as the 1993 Philadelphia Meeting, which was lawfully wiretapped by the FBI. There, members of the Palestine Committee defined the scope of the conspiracy, which included supporting Hamas abroad and infiltrating universities, media, and politics here in the U.S. Why? To begin normalizing Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood extremist ideology in American society. They stated, &#8220;War is deception when plotting to lie to Americans.&#8221; They also noted their intent to cleanse the curriculum in U.S.-based K-12 schools because &#8220;we don&#8217;t want our children growing up surrendering to the idea of peace with Jews.&#8221;  
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Kyle Shideler, the director and senior analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy stated that the Muslim Brotherhood operates as a counterintelligence and systemic threat in the U.S. He testified:
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From its very beginning, the Muslim Brotherhood has operated as a clandestine organization, which engages in the creation of public front groups, cultivates agents of influence, seeks control over religious institutions, and engages in acts of political subversion as well as creating deniable sub-organizations devoted to terrorism, all in pursuit of their ultimate goal, the overthrow of governments and the reestablishment of a worldwide caliphate operating under Islamic law. 
It is worth recalling that the government demonstrated that the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, like all Brotherhood branches worldwide, created and funded Hamas support networks known as Palestine Committees at the direction of the U.S. of the International Muslim Brotherhood, beginning in 1983. &#8230; The issue of the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood is not merely a counterterrorism issue, but it is also a systemic counterintelligence challenge. And even more broadly, it is a challenge to the fabric of the United States and its ability to seek assimilation and social cohesion.
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Arielle Klepach, the former assistant U.S. attorney in the special prosecution sections of the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of Florida, testified on the infiltration of the American education system, saying, “When someone tells you who they are, believe them. The Muslim Brotherhood told us their strategy for the West, but don&#8217;t take my word for it. They put it on paper. &#8230; This is not a relic of the 1990s. It is a foreign terror-supporting movement on American soil targeting our Constitution and our founding principles. I would ask you to remember three things. These organizations are dangerous, they are in our schools, and they hide by abusing the very legal system they are working to dismantle.”
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Cruz Rips Dems Skipping Hearing On Muslim Infiltration

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Senate

Ted Cruz

A Senate hearing on Wednesday presented evidence that a Muslim Brotherhood-connected network in the United States is built to support Hamas and expand influence through American institutions. 
The “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America” <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hidden-in-plain-sight-confronting-the-muslim-brotherhood-network-in-america-08-05-2026?_cb=1785962582513">hearing</a>, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), focused on how the network was constructed and the threats it poses to the United States. The network continues to operate with overlapping leadership, shared ideology, and sustained reach into education, politics, and nonprofit advocacy.
At the center of the hearing was the 2008 Holy Land Foundation case, which remains the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history. In 2008, the Holy Land Foundation, then the largest Muslim charity in the United States, and five of its leaders were convicted on 108 counts of providing material support to Hamas, money laundering, and tax fraud. Sentences reached 65 years.
At the time, prosecutors said the trial exposed a broader network of organizations operating inside the country. That structure included the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
A 1991 document known as the Explanatory Memorandum, recovered by the FBI in 2004 in Annandale, Virginia, described the Brotherhood’s work in North America as “a grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and &#8216;sabotaging&#8217; its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers.” The document instructed adherents to master coalition building and to work with existing Islamic organizations.
CAIR was founded in 1994 by individuals who participated in a 1993 Philadelphia meeting of Palestine Committee leaders that the FBI recorded. At that meeting, participants discussed supporting Hamas while infiltrating American universities, media, and politics. 
They spoke of shaping school curricula so that children would not “grow up surrendering to the idea of peace with Jews.” Nihad Awad, who took part in the meeting, remains CAIR’s executive director. Witnesses said CAIR was created in significant part to defend and protect other elements of the Hamas support network.
Lara Burns, the retired FBI special agent who led the Holy Land Foundation investigation, told the subcommittee that CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 case and has never formally disavowed the Holy Land Foundation. Asked whether evidence from that prosecution would still place CAIR on a list of organizations warranting further investigation, she answered, “It would.” She added that the underlying conspiracy still exists and the threat is growing.
After the Islamic Association for Palestine was driven into bankruptcy through civil liability for supporting terrorism, its leadership reappeared in other groups. Osama Abu Irshaid, who had worked for both the Islamic Association for Palestine and the United Association for Studies and Research, later became a leader of American Muslims for Palestine.
During the hearing, Cruz mentioned that Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, has family ties to this network. El-Sayed&#8217;s father-in-law previously served as president of CAIR Michigan and sat on the founders committee of the Islamic Society of North America.
Kyle Shideler, a counterterrorism analyst, told lawmakers that CAIR’s creation and bylaws received explicit approval from Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt. Documents from the Holy Land Foundation case showed that, at one time, one in every four American mosques was under the influence of the Hamas-linked North American Islamic Trust. 
Arielle Klepach, a former federal prosecutor, said that CAIR New Jersey distributed a curriculum on 9/11 to nearly 30 public school districts that framed the attacks as a predictable consequence of U.S. foreign policy. 
Cruz then referenced troubling statements made by CAIR officials after the October 7, 2023, attacks. Awad declared he was “happy to see people breaking the siege,” and on the day of the massacre, the executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco chapter posted, “We are witnessing decolonization” and later referred to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a martyr.
CAIR California’s CEO Hussam Ayloush said, “Israel should be attacked.” He also noted that CAIR and related groups assisted the broader network as it coordinated legal support and strategic guidance for the campus encampments and riots that spread to more than 100 campuses across the country.
Witnesses described the campus activity as the product of an organized network that has spent decades building influence inside American universities.
Burns confirmed that CAIR personnel appeared during the 2004 FBI search of a senior operative’s home in Virginia and attempted to obstruct the seizure of documents that formed a major archive of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas support network.
Cruz closed by stating that the network’s institutional presence through nonprofits, taxpayer funded grants, campus organizing, and legal advocacy requires accountability “no matter how many tax exemptions, charitable registrations, or civil rights letterheads they hide behind.”
He called on the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and the FBI to act on the evidence presented.
Written questions for the record are due by August 12, with answers to written inquiries expected by August 26.

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The Link Between Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood In America? Here’s The Evidence

Islamic Jihad

Muslims

An Israel Defense Force (IDF) dog with a body camera entered a tunnel in southern Gaza and found dozens of rockets and other munitions inside.
Paratroopers found the terror tunnel while clearing the Israeli-held area of the Gaza Strip marked by the Yellow Line of terrorist infrastructure above and below ground.
Hamas&#8217; tunnel <a href="https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hamas-underground-city-of-terror/">network</a> is described by the IDF as “A vast underground city with dozens of access points located throughout Gaza. Hamas uses these tunnels as weapons caches, bunkers, command centers, and a concealed transportation artery for terrorists and weapons, including rocket launchers.”
Engineering units later destroyed the tunnel. Video of the blast shows a large explosion rising from an open field beside a road. The tunnel had remained undiscovered throughout the Israel-Hamas war until this operation. Its removal forms part of sustained work to clear terrorist infrastructure in accordance with the ceasefire framework.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said in 2021 that the network ran for roughly 310 miles beneath a territory only about twice the size of Washington. Israeli assessments during the war placed the total even higher at hundreds of miles. The IDF has destroyed numerous systems of tunnels in recent months as operations continue.
Troops locate entrances, map the branches, search for explosives and weapons, and then destroy the routes so they cannot be repaired and reused. In one tunnel, soldiers entered a space identified as a Hamas commander’s room.
It contained porcelain sinks, telephone wiring, electricity, and a bed fitted with a mattress supplied as humanitarian aid “from the people of Japan.” It sat underground inside the infrastructure used by the group. Other complexes found during the war have held bathrooms, kitchens, electrical rooms, ventilation systems, and weapon stores. Senior operatives could remain below ground for days or weeks while directing activity.
In Rafah, where Israeli forces had already operated for more than a year, tunnels continued to surface. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an IDF international spokesman, described the reality directly, <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/07/21/israels-campaign-against-hamass-vast-tunnel-network-continues-during-gaza-ceasefire-kan-reports/">saying</a>, “The IDF are world-class experts in dealing with terror tunnels. And still after a year plus in Rafah there are still tunnels.” He noted that dozens of shafts could remain in a single sector and that troops were dismantling only single digits each week.
The IDF recently dismantled eight underground tunnel <a href="https://x.com/IDF/status/2052709542362849443">routes</a> used by Hamas that spanned more than 2.5 kilometers. One of those routes was part of the network in eastern Rafah. Hamas terrorists operating inside it were eliminated during the engineering activity.

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