Murals at DC Protest Honor Terrorists

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American Muslims for Palestine, Hamas’s ‘propaganda arm,’ organized the rally

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Murals honoring Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists were featured Saturday at a protest that American Muslims for Palestine, a group recently accused of serving as Hamas’s “propaganda arm in New York City,” helped organize. 

Several Hamas flags, including one depicting a militant of the terror group, were also spotted among the crowd of thousands of protesters, many of whom bused in from across the country. Speakers included Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad, who once said he was “happy to see” Hamas attack Israel, notorious anti-Semite Linda Sarsour, and Grant Miner, the Columbia University graduate student expelled for storming a campus building.

One of the murals honored Walid Daqqa, a terrorist with the PFLP who was convicted for orchestrating the 1984 abduction, torture, and murder of a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. It included a quote of him saying he saw captivity as “a viewing angle of the overall Arab situation and struggle.”

Another mural showed a black-and-white image of Hossam Shabat with “PRESS” emblazoned across his chest. Shabat has been portrayed as a member of the media given his status as an Al Jazeera reporter—but he was also a Hamas sniper. Shabat shared celebratory posts on social media following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack and, before his death in an Israeli strike last month, was known to publish propaganda accusing Israel’s “occupation army” of atrocities.

A third mural highlighted Basel Al-Araj who, according to the Jerusalem Post, led a terrorist cell but was killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers before he could carry out his planned attacks. A fourth featured Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet who said “most Jews” are “evil.”

During Saturday’s rally, protesters shouted out the typical “river to the sea” and “one solution chants.” Keffiyeh-clad agitators climbed on top of a Department of Homeland Security vehicle while the crowd was stopped in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s headquarters. Several department SUVs were vandalized, and at least one had a slashed tire.

The march was organized by roughly a dozen groups, including several anti-Israel organizations such as American Muslims for Palestine, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Families of Oct. 7 victims and hostages accused American Muslims for Palestine of serving as “Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus” in a lawsuit filed last month, saying the group should be held accountable “for aiding and abetting Hamas’ continuing acts of international terrorism.”

The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace, meanwhile, were slapped with a class action lawsuit in January for their role in shutting down access to several major roadways in D.C. on Feb. 1, 2024, for close to an hour.

Original News Source – Washington Free Beacon

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