Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib spoke at an anti-American and pro-terror conference in 2024. Also, 6 of her 2018 fundraiser co-hosts either raised money for Hamas or had a close relationship with the terror group, as described below. Tlaib was elected to Congress in 2018.
MAJOR UPDATE - November 8, 2023
Canary Mission can now confirm that Rashida Tlaib is connected to 6 Hamas-linked activists who all served as fundraiser co-hosts for her 2018 congressional campaign.This update identifies 3 activists in addition to the 3 identified in an October 2023 report.
Other Key Findings:
- PFLP Connections: The Black4Palestine activist group that Tlaib co-founded in 2015 worked publicly with terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) no less than 8 times from 2016 to 2020.
- Guest of Honor Linked to Terror Group: One of Rashida Tlaib’s guests for her January 2019 swearing-in was Fatah activist Mazen Dola. He is the cousin of a terrorist who lured an Israeli teenager online for a date and then murdered him in cold blood, in 2001. Two and a half years before attending Tlaib’s swearing-in, he attended the release of his cousin from an Israeli jail along with armed members of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
- Hamas-Linked Fundraiser Host: One of Tlaib's 2018 fundraiser hosts, Mwafaq Jbara, met with a Hamas co-founder while in a maximum security Israeli jail. He called for the death of Jews and praised the terrorist who killed U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force.
BREAKING NEWS - October 25, 2023
- Canary Mission can confirm that Rashida Tlaib has extensive fundraising ties to Hamas supporters. She employed no less than three Hamas-linked activists to fundraise for her 2018 election campaign, one of whom spent 8 months in prison for his alleged connections to Hamas.
- Tlaib additionally used a pro-terror Facebook page, PAC-USA, to raise funds for her 2018 Congressional campaign. Tlaib gave the founder of PAC-USA the position of Chairman of the Finance Committee for Rashida Tlaib for Congress. He used it to promote 12 fundraisers in 8 states, entirely with her support.
- In 2015, Tlaib co-founded the Detroit-based, anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-terror hate group, Black4Palestine. A co-founder used the group to conduct activism with members of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
CONFIRMED: 6 HAMAS-LINKED FUNDRAISERS
Canary Mission can confirm that at least 6 Hamas-linked activists fundraised for Tlaib during her 2018 Congressional campaign: Mwafaq Jbara, Sheikh Muhammad Qatanani, Huwaida Arraf, Salah Sarsour, Rafeeq Jaber and Abdelbaset Hamayel.Mwafaq Jbara
Mwafaq Jbara was a 2018 fundraiser co-host. He was listed as one of 14 co-hosts for a March 29, 2018 fundraiser in Worth, IL, which is a suburb of Chicago. They took a photo together at the event which Tlaib still had on her Facebook page in November 2023.
Jbara wrote on Facebook that he was imprisoned in Israel’s Megiddo Prison in Israel in 1997, where he met the co-founder of Hamas, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi. In one 2016 Facebook post, Jbara wrote of al-Rantisi in Arabic: “To the heavens of eternity o #lion_of_palestine your words continues to ring in my ears and I still remember that meeting in Megiddo prison in 1997.. you'll remain among us and you'll remain a model and a great example.” Jbara wrote another 2015 Facebook post praising al-Rantisi.
Jbara honored the murderer of United States veteran Taylor Force, on Facebook. In the post, he wrote in Arabic: “There is no power or strength except for Allah. May Allah have mercy on you and bestow kindness upon you, you hero.”
Jbara is a Fatah activist but he has also shown support for Hamas and Hezbollah. In December 2017, he wrote a Facebook post in Arabic calling for Hamas to destroy Israel that said: “Blessed is the 30th anniversary of the Hamas movement launch and together and with each other until the humiliating defeat of the zionist occupation and its project.” The post featured a graphic of the Hamas logo and an assault rifle.
Jbara has idolized Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash at least a dozen times on Facebook.
In an April 2016 Facebook post, Jbara shared a graphic of a burning bus with a photo of Ayyash. The graphic’s Arabic caption translated: “When you see the rooftop of a bus flying... know the operation is for Yahya Ayyash.” Jbara wrote in Arabic: “By God, we miss you. #the_engineer.”
Jbara has called for the murder of Jews and wrote a July 2014 Facebook post in Arabic that said: “Crime and racism by an occupier against a rightful owner. Today is yours but tomorrow is ours and Hitler will be a peace dove in comparison to us. #death to Israel.”
Jbara’s many pro-terror Facebook posts include one honoring the October 2000 Ramallah lynching, when a mob of Palestinians murdered and mutilated the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.
Jbara is an anti-Israel organizer in Chicago with the group Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP).
Jbara also attended Tlaib’s January 2019 swearing-in celebrations at the U.S. Capitol. On January 3, 2019, Jbara shared a Facebook video from the celebrations and wrote in Arabic: “Now from inside the office of the Representative of the American Congress Rashida Tlaib.”
Jbara also attended a January 2019 Tlaib fundraising event where he took a photo with Tlaib.
Sheikh Muhammad Qatanani
Sheikh Muhammad Qatanani was a 2018 fundraiser co-host. He was listed as a co-host for a June 30, 2018 fundraiser in Clifton, NJ.
In 2008, Qatanani faced deportation from the US after he failed to disclose, on his green card application, his previous convictions by an Israeli military court for providing material support to Hamas, as well as his membership in the terror organization.
In 1993, Qatanani was reportedly arrested by Israeli authorities and sentenced to three months imprisonment, with another 12 months imprisonment, suspended for 3 years.
The Israeli indictment reportedly charged Qatanani with being a Hamas member since 1989, and attempting to enter the West Bank in 1990 to give a report on Hamas’s status in Jordan to a Hamas leader. The indictment charged him with referring Hamas activists to the leader of Hamas, after those activists gave Qatanani a proper code word.
Qatanani’s deceased brother-in-law, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, was reportedly a Hamas military leader.
Huwaida Arraf
Huwaida Arraf was a 2018 fundraiser co-host. She was listed as one of two co-hosts for a July 12, 2018 fundraiser in Detroit, MI.
As the co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Arraf has allied with multiple terrorist groups, including Hamas. She has also provoked violence as the 2006 co-founder [p.24] of the Free Gaza Movement (FGM), whose mission is to “break the Israel’s illegal siege…on Gaza.” She reportedly participated in seven FGM flotillas to Gaza between August 2008 and May 2010.
The United Nations approved [pp. 39–41] the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in 2011 as a security measure to stop Hamas from acquiring sophisticated rockets. Multiple flotillas have attempted to breach the blockade, with at least one flotilla initiating a violent confrontation with Israeli forces.
See Arraf’s complete Canary Mission profile here.
Salah Sarsour
Salah Sarsour was a 2018 fundraising co-host. He was listed as one of two co-hosts for a Tlaib campaign event in Milwaukee, WI on July 28, 2018. He was once jailed for alleged Hamas activity and is an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) activist.
Canary Mission can now confirm that Sarsour was listed on an official Tlaib campaign flyer as being the lead organizer of the event, even giving out his personal phone number for contact.
At the event, previous reporting showed that Tlaib and Sarsour took multiple photos together [bottom right].
Sarsour was reportedly [p. 2] a Hamas activist who served eight months in prison in 1995 for his connections [p. 3] to the terror group, including giving Hamas members money.
According to a 2001 FBI memorandum [p. 49], Sarsour played an active role in raising funds for Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), which was intended “actually for Hamas.” IAP helped raise money for Hamas, as detailed below, and the HLF was found guilty in a federal criminal trial of funneling funds to the terror group Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid.
Rafeeq Jaber
Rafeeq Jaberwas a 2018 fundraising co-host. He was listed as one of 15 co-hosts for a Tlaib fundraiser in July 2018. Jaber has testified that he has helped distribute Hamas propaganda in America.
Canary Mission can now confirm that on July 20, 2018, Jaber co-hosted a fundraiser for Tlaib in Chicago, Illinois. He also attended [00:09:47] an intimate March 2018 Tlaib fundraiser where he sat in the front row.
Jaber, who also goes by Rafiq Jaber, is a co-founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
In 2003, Jaber testified that he directed two Hamas front groups in the U.S. to “promote [the Holy Land Foundation] in every way we can” and to distribute Hamas propaganda materials, including an August 2001 editorial that advocated martyrdom operations and the killing of Jewish people.
At the time, he was reportedly president of the IAP and the American Muslim Society (AMS). According to a court document, AMS was “d/b/a [doing business as ] the Islamic Association for Palestine in Chicago.”
IAP and AMS published and distributed pro-Hamas documents in America. According to U.S. government prosecutors [p. 30], IAP served as “the media arm of Hamas in America” and played [p. 5] a central role in disseminating Hamas propaganda “intended to continue to promote and move forward Hamas’s agenda of the destruction of the State of Israel and establishment of an Islamic state in its place.”
IAP and AMS also directly contributed funds to HLF and encouraged its supporters to donate to the Hamas-linked organization. IAP’s logo was featured on the publication of Hamas’s charter.
Abdelbaset Hamayel
Abdelbaset Hamayel was a 2018 fundraising co-host. He was listed as one of 15 co-hosts for a Tlaib fundraiser in July 2018. He worked in senior positions for two Hamas-linked organizations in the U.S. that are now defunct. He has also held senior positions [p.13] in AMP.
Hamayel reportedly served as the “representative” in Illinois and Wisconsin for KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development (KindHearts). The group was dissolved in 2011 after the U.S. Department of the Treasury discovered that it was funneling funds to Hamas.
As of November 18, 2001, Hamayel was reportedly the Executive Director and Secretary General of the IAP.
IAP’s publication, Al-Zaytouna magazine: “focused on Palestinian issues with an emphasis on support for Hamas.” Al-Zaytouna magazine allegedly contained at least one article encouraging readers to donate [p.30] funds to HLF.
IAP was alleged to be one of four central organizations founded in the U.S. with the mandate to support Hamas, with varying missions calculated to address Hamas’s needs comprehensively.
CONFIRMED: Tlaib's Guest of Honor at 2019 Swearing-In Linked to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Mazen Dola attended Rashida Tlaib’s swearing-in [00:03:46] on January 3, 2019. Hejoined Tlaib's Campaign Finance Chairman, Maher Abdelqader, in the U.S. House of Representatives gallery during the ceremony.
Dola is a Fatah activist in the Chicago area connected to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the official military wing of Fatah designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
Tlaib posed for a photo with Dola while inside the U.S. Capitol building on the day of her swearing-in.
Dola has praised his terrorist cousin many times on social media.
On June 30, 2016, Dola posted to Facebook a video from the celebration of the release of his cousin, Abed Dola, from Israeli prison. The video featured members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades firing [00:00:02] rifles into the air.
Abed Dola [Abdelfattah Dola] was convicted for his role in the January 2001 kidnap and murder of Ofir Rahum, a 16-year-old Israeli boy. Abed Dola’s female accomplice lured Rahum online into meeting her in Jerusalem. She then drove him near Ramallah, where Abed Dola and another man shot him. Abed Dola was a member of Fatah’s Tanzim military wing at the time of the murder.
Abed Dola was also reportedly a member of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs on January 21, 2019. He also appeared in an official commission photo on the PA website around the same time.
Mazen Dola wrote an Arabic Facebook post on June 30, 2016 that translated: “The night will certainly dissipate and the chains will certainly disintegrate. I extend my greetings and congratulations to my cousin, released prisoner Abdelfattah Dola on the occasion of his liberation from prison of the Zionist Occupation. We wish freedom for all the prisoners who are still behind bars in the jails of the Occupation. We will never lose hope for your freedom and for all the heroes.”
On October 12, 2017, Mazen Dola posted to Facebook a photo of himself and Abed Dola. Mazen praised Abed: “وكان من المناضلين الشرفاء الذين ضحوا بشرف عن الوطن الحبيب من اجل العيش بكرامه [He was one of many honorable combatants who sacrificed honorably for the sake of the dear Motherland.]”
On November 8, 2018, Mazen Dola posted to Facebook a group photo of him standing next to Abed Dola and two others. Mazen Dola tagged Abed Dola in the photo.
On March 19, 2019, Abed Dola posted to Facebook a photo of himself with Mazen Dola. He wrote about Mazen: “ابو أدهم العزيز، رمز الوطنية والعطاء.. دمت وجها مشرفا لحركة فتح وفلسطين.. نعتز بك، كل النجاح والتوفيق في نشر رسالة العطاء والوطنية.. [Abu Adham you are a symbol of patriotism and stewardship, you are the shining face of Fatah and Palestine. We are proud of you, good luck in the spreading of the message of stewardship and patriotism.”
CONFIRMED: Tlaib Used a Pro-Terror FB Page for 2018 Election Fundraising
Tlaib’s close confidant Maher Abdelqader served [00:08:11] as Chairman of the Finance Committee for Rashida Tlaib for Congress in 2018. The Tlaib campaign has also listed him as its “Community Campaign Coordinator.”
Abdelqader had long used PAC-USA to spread anti-Semitism, including neo-Nazipropaganda and posts that honored white supremacist leader David Duke.
Abdeqader added Tlaib to the PAC-USA page on Feb 8, 2018.
From then on, Abdelqader used his PAC-USA page to promote no fewer than 12 fundraisers for Tlaib in 8 states. He solicited campaign donations, gave fundraising updates and posted campaign photos throughout 2018.
Tlaib interacted with PAC-USA at least 18 times during the 2018 campaign.
While Tlaib interacted with the page, Abdelqader continued to post both anti-Semitic and pro-terror content to the page. Among his posts were ones explicitly calling for the expulsion of Jews from Israel.
CONFIRMED: Tlaib Founded a Pro-Terror Hate Group, Black4Palestine, in Detroit in 2015
- Rashida Tlaib, March 29, 2018
Black4Palestine has posted in support of Palestinian terrorists [image p. 23] online more than 100 times.
Black4Palestine has also expressed support for leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an armed Marxist-Leninist group that is listed as a Foreign Terror Organization (FTO) by the U.S. government.
Black4Palestine has also shown support for domestic terrorist Assata Shakur and honored Shakur’s anti-American separatist group. In a May 2017 blog post, Black4Palestine called Shakur “one of our own revolutionary comrades and a former political prisoner.”
On September 1, 2016, after Bailey visited Brussels and met with Barakat and Khatib [back row, third and fourth from right] that July, Black4Palestine posted a Facebook video of Khatib arguing [00:05:32] that social and ethnic divisions should be exploited in America and Israel to destroy them from the inside because they cannot be defeated militarily, although he did endorse terrorism against Israel.
Black4Palestine has honored the violent separatist Black Liberation Army (BLA), spread hatred of America, including promoting calls [00:05:33] for America’s “defeat.” It has also spread hatred of Israel including calling for Israel’s destruction.
Black4Palestine also supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
On March 29, 2018, Tlaib said [00:05:02] on Facebook at a Chicago fundraising event: “I'm the co-founder of, one of the co-founders of Blacks for Palestine [sic]. We did this amazing panel on the ‘67 rebellion in Detroit and the ‘67, the war in Falastine [Palestine]. And bringing the people together is something I just, I have a passion for.”
On August 19, 2017, Tlaib featured [00:35:32] in a YouTube video as an emcee at a Black4Palestine co-organized event that she co-sponsored. The event attempted to link Israel’s 1967 Six Day War to the 1967 Detroit Riot.
In the video, Tlaib said [00:37:03]: “I’m also really proud of the fact that we started the new chapter called Blacks for Palestine in Detroit [sic]. And you can all find a Facebook page about some of the events that we’re going to be having. We meet primarily in the Cass Commons.”
In the same video, Tlaib introduced [01:06:30] Bailey as a speaker and said: “Kristian Davis Bailey is here. I know him because he reached out and he helped start the Blacks for Palestine in Detroit. Woo!”
CONFIRMED: Pro-Terror Hate Group, Black4Palestine, Worked Directly with PFLP Terrorists From 2016 to 2020 (New 11/8/2023)
Canary Mission can now report that Bailey used the group, which Tlaib co-founded, to work hand-in-hand with PFLP terrorists at least 8 times from 2016 to 2020. All the while, the Black4Palestine page remained full of pro-PFLP and other pro-terror posts.
3/21/2016 - Barakat and Bailey spoke at an event in Paris, France, to call for the release of PFLP terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.
5/16/2016 - Bailey transcribed an interview Khatib did with an online radio station, then he published the transcript to the Samidoun website.
7/21/2016 - Samidoun hosted Bailey to speak at one of their events in Brussels, Belgium. Barakat and Khatib were both present.
9/1/2016 - Bailey filmed an interview with Khatib that was posted to the Black4Palestine Facebook page and was shared on the Samidoun website. In the video, Khatib speaks openly about destroying Israel and America from within.
4/3/2017 - Samidoun announced: “Along with Black4Palestine organizer Kristian Davis Bailey, Mohammed [Khatib] is working on a project to build Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity between liberation movements, focusing on youth organizing.”
1/17/2020 - Bailey wrote an article for the Samidoun website in support of arrested PFLP college activist Mays Abu Ghosh, whom he called “my friend.”
Tlaib and Bailey are close and she has never denounced him for his public connection to U.S.-designated terrorists.
2/9/2019 - Tlaib posted a group photo to Facebook that showed Bailey with her arm around her shoulder.
8/9/2017 - Tlaib introduced Bailey to speak at a Black4Palestine event. When Bailey spoke, he promoted hatred of America and Israel. He said: “The United States and Israel are each states that are rooted in white supremacy, that are rooted in displacement of indigenous people, that are rooted in the oppression of minorities. These are the states that we have to target and these are what we have to fight in order to liberate ourselves.”
6/24/2017 - Tlaib and her 2 sons in a group photo with Bailey on the Black4Palestine website. Caption promoted hatred of America: “We recognize the struggles for Black and Palestinian liberation as connected to the fights of other colonized populations (e.g. Anishinaabeg people in ‘Detroit’ and other native populations in ‘the US,’ and migrant justice - notably for our Latinx, Arab, and South Asian family in the Detroit Metro Area.”
Blaming Israel for Hamas War Crimes
In her statement, Tlaib called for “lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
Israel and Egypt implemented a UN-approved [pp. 39–41] joint blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2011 to stop Hamas from acquiring more sophisticated rockets. Hamas went around the blockade by smuggling weaponry through tunnels under the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt.
Anti-Israel activists use the term “resistance” to refer to violence and terror perpetrated against Israeli civilians and their allies. It is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence. Anti-Israel activists chant slogans such as: “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!” in response to terror attacks.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
Hatred of Israel During a War Against Hamas
The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) was created after Israel’s 1948 War of Independence to provide for the humanitarian needs of “Palestinian refugees,” which UNRWA defines as descendants of these displaced individuals worldwide. In late 2022, this number was close to 6 million.
Using its mandate, UNRWA has hired Hamas members as teachers in its schools and provided arms to the terror group. At least 42 UNRWA staff participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, with an estimated 10% of UNRWA’s Gaza staff having affiliation with Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ). UNRWA staff kept hostages for Hamas in their homes, stored Hamas weapons in its facilities and provided electricity for Hamas’s data operations in Gaza tunnels from UNRWA headquarters.
On October 16, 2023, Tlaib tweeted, tagging other “Squad” members in her post: “We must legislate to save lives now. Calling for urgent de-escalation and facilitating a ceasefire is how we do it. I urge my colleagues to join me…”
Tlaib’s tweet included a photo of a House Resolution draft calling [p. 1] for “an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine” and urging [o. 2] the Biden administration “to urgently end the current violence.”
On October 17, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that. / @POTUS this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate. / Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslims Americans like me. We will remember where you stood.”
On October 17, 2023, the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fired rockets at Israel from Gaza, one of which misfired and fell on the parking lot of the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital. Initial media reports blamed Israel. Following the incident, U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib immediately accused the Biden administration of funding Israel’s “genocide” of Palestinian people.
On October 18, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “Thank you to our Jewish allies from across the country who joined in solidarity to call for a #CeasefireNOW. / Chanting ‘Not in Our Name.’”
On October 18, 2023, more than 350 anti-Israel demonstrators raided a congressional office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Capitol police arrested 300 illegal protesters, including at least three who were charged with assault on a police officer. The protest was reportedly organized by two anti-Israel groups, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow (INN).
Tlaib retweeted an October 18, 2023 tweet from JVP that said: “Here! Now! @RashidaTlaib demands CEASEFIRE NOW.”
Anti-Semitism in the U.S. Congress
Promoting Incitement
On April 15, 2022, Tlaib tweeted: “It is simply wrong + cruel [for Israel] to attack a [Palestinian] people in their sacred place of worship [Al-Aqsa Mosque]. I am tired of our country [U.S.] enabling violence & violations of int’l human rights w/ silence & unconditional aid…”Tlaib’s tweet linked to another tweet from an anti-Israel organization alleging that “Israeli police have stormed Al Aqsa mosque, attacking Palestinian journalists, worshippers and paramedics.”
On February 17, 2022, Tlaib tweeted: “...Apartheid govt of Israel expelling them from their home is a war crime under intl law. It’s also a violation of US law that states no money can be given to a country that commits a systematic pattern of human rights violations. #SaveSheikhJarrah.”
In May 2021, calls to “save” Sheikh Jarrah, a Jerusalem neighborhood at the center of a property dispute, led to violence against Israelis and were one of the leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza into Israel that month. Israel responded by launching Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW), carrying out targeted military strikes against the terrorists and their infrastructure in Gaza.
On July 18, 2021, Tlaib tweeted: “Why is Israel attacking Al Aqsa [Mosque] on Eid Al Adha [Feast of Sacrifice] (the holiest day for Muslims)? Why attack people who are literally kneeling down in prayer? Answer: To continue dehumanizing Palestinians even in prayer. It’s not enough to bomb them while they sleep or demolish their homes.”
On May 10, 2021, Tlaib tweeted: “I was 7 years old when I first prayed at the Al Aqsa [Mosque] with my sity [grandma]. It’s a sacred site for Muslims. This is equivalent to attacking the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians, or the Temple Mount for Jews. Israel attacks it during Ramadan. Where’s the outrage @POTUS?”
In April 2021, at the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a series of viral videos circulated on Palestinian social media showing Palestinian youths physically assaulting Jews in Jerusalem. Israeli police and civilians were reportedly attacked by rioters with firecrackers, stones and glass bottles. Amid the escalation, Hamas fired rockets into Israel from Gaza. Israel responded by striking a Hamas weapons manufacturing site, a weapon smuggling tunnel and a military post.
Support for Terrorists
On January 31, 2024, Tlaib reportedly voted against a bill barring Hamas members and other participants who executed the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel from entering the U.S. The bill passed with 422 votes in favor, 2 against and one present.The bill, titled “H.R.6679 - No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act,” which amends the existing Immigration and Nationality Act, stated that any individual who “participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated” the October 7, 2023 attack against Israel or attacks after that, “shall be ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws.”
The bill also reportedly expanded an existing U.S. ban on Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officers to include all PLO members.
On the same day, Tlaib released a statement titled: “Tlaib Opposes Hateful GOP Anti-Immigrant Bills,” where she wrote: “H.R. 6679 is unnecessary because it is redundant with already existing federal law. It’s just another GOP messaging bill being used to incite anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, and anti-Muslim hatred that makes communities like ours unsafe.”
On February 22, 2023, Israel conducted a military operation in Nablus to capture Palestinian terrorists responsible for a number of earlier attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. Eleven Palestinians were killed during the raid, including the local branch leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), as well as six members of the Lions’ Den armed group.
On January 27, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “...We honor the victims of the Jenin massacre by telling the truth about the [Israeli] apartheid gov’t.”
On January 26, 2023, nine Palestinians were killed in a shootout after IDF soldiers entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest a cell of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists, who were reportedly planning a terror attack. During the attempted arrests, members of the cell as well as other Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the soldiers.
On October 20, 2022, Tlaib tweeted: “One year ago, the Israeli government tried to shut down six Palestinian human rights organizations…Today, I #StandWithThe6…”
In October 2021, Israel’s minister of defense declared six Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to be “terror organizations” operating “as an arm” for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The groups were accused of funneling donor aid to militants and employing senior PFLP members, “including activists involved in terror activity.” PFLP is designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the United States, the EU, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Australia and Israel.
On July 12, 2021, Tlaib tweeted: “The simple desire to live is criminalized in some of the most inhumane ways in Israel…Khalida [Jarrar] & her family have gone through so much already…”
Khalida Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization. In 2019, she was arrested for her role as the leader of the PFLP in the West Bank, which had carried out a deadly 2018 bombing and was reportedly “planning additional attacks.” She was among 50 PFLP operatives arrested.
Also on July 12, 2021, Tlaib tweeted: “Reminder: Apartheid government is not a democracy. We must stop our taxpayer dollars being used to violently oppress the Palestinians. Just this week Israel demolished and leveled the home of a Palestinian family [of Muntasir Shalabi] in the beloved village of Turmusaya. For what? To dehumanize.”
On May 2, 2021, Palestinian terrorist Muntasir [Montasser] Shalabi killed Yehuda Guetta, a 19-year-old Jewish student, and shot two of his friends in a drive-by shooting at the Tapuah Junction in Samaria. Before shooting his victims, Shalabi shouted: “Allahu Akbar! [God is the greatest].”
Hatred of Israel
On July 17, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “The Israeli government is committing the crime of apartheid…Apartheid is a racist system of oppression.”The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) highlights as one possible contemporary example of anti-Semitism: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The U.S. State Department adopted the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism in 2016. Over 40 other countries have adopted the definition as well.
On June 22, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “...the extremist apartheid Israeli government intensifies its campaign of violence, terror and death is shameful. Our country funds this violent & racist government with close to $4B. It’s time that ends.”
On March 16, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “Fellow Americans are recognizing now more than ever that Palestinians face violence and racism from the Israeli government…”
On July 29, 2022, Tlaib tweeted: “Israel is an apartheid state, engaged in racist oppression against Palestinians. @statedept has failed to find the truth…”
On May 16, 2022, Tlaib tweeted: “...The Palestinian people since the [19]48 Nakba have been living under [Israeli] oppression and violent racism…”
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by drawing a comparison to the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, meaning “catastrophe.”
On May 1, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “...the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. 75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.”
On July 16, 2021, Tlaib tweeted: “Our country [U.S.] needs to stop pretending that Israel doesn’t discriminate towards Palestinians in the most inhumane ways…”
On June 15, 2021, Tlaib tweeted: “...Israel’s government doesn’t value Palestinian lives. It has managed a decades-long ethnic cleansing project, funded by the U.S.”
On May 18, 2021, Tlaib tweeted, accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians.
Tlaib retweeted a February 10, 2020 tweet that featured a graphic with misleading maps and said: “...The land theft of the #Palestinian people [by Israel] is a #crime.”
The maps claim that lands once controlled by Britain, Egypt and Jordan as autonomous “Palestinian land” were purportedly stolen by Israel. In February 2016, publisher McGraw-Hill Education recalled copies of a college textbook containing the fraudulent maps. In October 2015, American cable news network MSNBC apologized for airing a similar series of maps and retracted them.
On May 5, 2019, Tlaib tweeted: “When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this & framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress & target Palestinian children and families. #FreePalestine.”
Tlaib’s tweet linked to another tweet that commented on a New York Times article titled: “Gaza Militants Fire 250 Rockets, and Israel Responds With Airstrikes.”
Historical Revisionism
In 2019, Tlaib propagated a false claim that Arabs in British Mandate Palestine were saving Jews during the Holocaust. Instead, the British issued a “White Paper” that severely limited Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine between 1939 and 1945 in response to Arab opposition to and riotsagainst Jewish immigration.Anti-Israel Activism (BDS)
On July 19, 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. Tlaib, along with several other anti-Israel members of Congress, boycotted Herzog’s address.On July 17, 2023, Tlaib tweeted: “In solidarity with the Palestinian people and all those who have been harmed by Israel’s apartheid government, I will be boycotting [Israeli] President Herzog’s joint address to Congress. I urge all Members of Congress who stand for human rights for all to join me. #BoycottApartheid.”
In July 2019, Tlaib co-sponsored a pro-BDS bill in the U.S. Congress introduced by fellow anti-Israel Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Featured Speaker at 2024 People’s Conference for Palestine
On May 25, 2024, BreakThrough News uploaded a video to YouTube featuring Tlaib speaking at a plenary session titled: “The Movement for Palestine in North America,” at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan.The conference was co-organized by the pro-terror activist group Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and was held during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
In her speech, Tlaib discussed pro-Hamas encampments on college campuses that were set up to protest Israel’s war against Hamas. She said [00:18:32]: “You know, when my colleagues are outraged, they’re outraged over the protest on college campuses in our country. They’re more outraged than that, than the atrocities happening right now on the ground in Falastin [Palestine], the war crimes. Y’all, there’s no universities in Gaza. We all know this. We say it over and over again. And now if they get their way, they’re going to silence the universities here at home.”
Tlaib further addressed [00:21:16] the conference: “I don’t need to tell you that you’re on the right side. I don’t need to. But, I’ll be damned if I wait 10 years before they apologize to all of you for doing what was right at this moment.”
In her closing remarks, Tlaib stated [00:24:55]: “We’re gonna march and we’re gonna move Congress and we’re gonna move the White House because they have no other option. We’re not going anywhere. Thank you so much. Thank you. Free, free Falastin! Free, free Falastin!”
Featured Speaker at 2025 People’s Conference for Palestine
Rashida Tlaib was listed as a speaker at the 2025 People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan.Speakers for the 2025 conference, the theme of which is “Gaza is the Compass,” include two terrorists released from Israeli prisons, as well as anti-Israel political figures Linda Sarsour, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and pro-Hamas activist Mahmoud Khalil.
Biographical Information
Tlaib, whose full name is Rashida Harbi Tlaib, received a JD from Thomas Cooley Law School (Cooley) at Western Michigan University (WMU) in 2004 and graduated from Wayne State University (WSU) with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1998.As of October 2023, Tlaib was a member of the U.S. Congress, after having been elected in November 2018 to represent Michigan’s 13th congressional district, which includes part of Detroit.
Tlaib is a member of the “Squad,” an informal group of 8 far-left Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives known for their anti-Israel public statements.
As of October 2023, Tlaib’s LinkedIn profile said she was located in Detroit, Michigan.
PYM
In 2012, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM USA) released a statement saying: “Our liberation...will be gained with the path that was written with the blood of our martyrs. We reaffirm that the only path that we are concerned with is the path that explicitly heads towards the liberation of our land and the return of our people to Palestine.”
PYM organized rallies demonizing Israel where it displays propaganda posters supporting the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
On October 25, 2015, PYM called to support “intifada” during a period when Palestinian radicals across Israel stabbed and hacked to death scores of Israeli civilians. PYM alleged that “Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the target of particularly brutal assaults” and that “... arbitrary killings are committed daily by the Zionist military and settlers.”
On November 10, 2015, the PYM Facebook page displayed a photo of masked Palestinian radicals throwing rocks and firing rocks from slingshots. That photo was used to promote at least 25 anti-Israel rallies across the globe on or around November 29, 2015 under the banner of “Transnational mobilization for Palestinian resistance.”
On November 30, 2015, PYM displayed a photo on Facebook from one of the rallies showing a sign in support of PFLP member Khalida Jarrar, who confessed to inciting violence and calling for terrorists to abduct Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers.
Another sign showed support for PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sadat, who was convicted for the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
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