Why the US-Israel relationship is a Matter of America's National Security
Part 2: Captured
Of the many times the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI) has cited award-winning Arab Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, this quote from his 2009 article On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda has been the most recurring.
What is happening on (U.S. college) campuses is not in the frame of freedom of speech. Instead, it is the freedom to disseminate hatred and violence. As such, we should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from the Gaza Strip or the mountains and mosques of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but from university campuses across the U.S.
The fact that Toameh wrote this dire warning after visiting U.S. college campuses nearly two decades ago underscores how long our campuses have been training “the next generation of jihadists.” Toameh’s warning was a prelude to DePaul University Professor Jason Hill’s description of American colleges as “living, breathing national security threats.” While several factors contribute to the Red-Green (Communist-Islamist) Alliance dominating America’s education system, no single entity represents the Green more than the Muslim Brotherhood.
In chapter four of my book Zionism & the Black Church, I introduce the Muslim Brotherhood in this way:
…in 1929 was the Hebron Massacre. Arabs rioted and killed some sixty Jewish men, women, and children in Hebron as well as over forty in Jerusalem. It was the worst violence perpetrated on the Jews of Palestine (historic Israel) since the 19th century, further emphasizing the need for a sovereign Jewish homeland. This violence was spurred in large part by the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928. [In his book ‘In Ishmael’s House’, author Sir Martin Gilbert states]:
“A populist movement with a strong Islamic fundamentalist message, the Muslim Brotherhood stirred up hatred not only against Zionism as a political and national movement, but against Jews as bearers of an alien and destructive religion and ideology. Its very first topic for debate was ‘The Subject of Palestine and the necessity of Jihad.’”
In 2013, Egypt (the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood) designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — one of the charter members of the Abraham Accords of Arab states and Israel — did the same. Yet, the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates operate freely in the United States including our government as well as in colleges and universities, even receiving 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, and very few ever address it — including the vast majority of Israel advocates. Ironically, while the Arab world was removing the Muslim Brotherhood, the Obama administration was placing its surrogates in the highest levels of government and law enforcement.
From Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration (December 2013):
At least six American Islamist activists who work closely with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy, according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Center for Security Policy in Washington.
Let's start with Mohamed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council who has met with national security staff inside the White House. He raises perhaps the most alarms.
Elibiary has been accused of "downloading sensitive material from law enforcement databases," according to the Investigative Project. Last month, he tweeted: "I do consider the United States of America an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution.”
Not only has legitimizing and venerating Islamism had disastrous effects on America and America’s relationship with Israel, but it has also contributed to America ignoring global religious persecution at the hands of Islamist oppressors
Continuing from Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration (2013):
In October, Elibiary blamed persecuted Coptic Christians for inciting violence in Egypt, claiming in a series of offensive tweets that their raising awareness of atrocities they've suffered promotes "Islamophobic" bigotry and anger by Muslims.
In 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood published its plan to assert Islamist control of the United States. Lebanese Christian Brigitte Gabriel was among the first Americans to explain the details of this plan and the many organizations connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. Prominent among those organizations is CAIR — Council on American-Islamic Relations, formed in 1994. CAIR is the civil rights wing of Hamas which, until recently, ruled Gaza. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
From Africa-Israel Weekly’s Psychological Compromise:
Just six days after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush visited the Islamic Centre in Washington D.C., and gave a speech. In short, the speech was about hatred of Muslims not being tolerated, and Islam being a “religion of peace” and unity for people all over the world. This was and is still praised as being a gesture of goodwill; and no doubt, this came about after the administration received pressure from…(CAIR). If you watch the video, you’ll see the gentleman standing behind President Bush on the right side is the Executive Director of CAIR, Nihad Awad.
It’s becoming less and less of a secret how much CAIR covers for global terror while claiming to be a civil rights organization…But what we do know about Nihad Awad is…immediately following Hamas’s brutal raping, torturing, killing, and kidnapping on October 7th (which is now considered Israel’s 9/11), Nihad Awad expressed joy. Awad said he was happy about October 7th. When pressed, he doubled down.
Anti-Israel student groups like Students for Justice and Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) have ties to Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood leaders or sympathizers. Earlier this year, IBSI produced an educational video entitled Why Hamas & the Muslim Brotherhood are allowed on US College Campuses. The nearly eight-minute video can be summarized in one word: Money.
The IBSI video explains that the State of Qatar is a haven for the leaders of Hamas as well as an ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of global terrorism. Qatar is also a quasi-ally of the United States and hosts the only U.S. Middle East airbase in the capital of Doha. Listed as the 5th wealthiest country in the world, Qatar is among the foreign bad actors that use its wealth to drive a Muslim Brotherhood agenda forward in the United States (and around the world). The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released the report Networks of Hate earlier this year.
ISGAP’s Follow The Money project previous reports have laid out the following:
Qatar is the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist ideology is intertwined with the State and furthermore the links that Qatar has with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian Chapter – Hamas
The fact that money coming from foreign states such as Qatar is having a direct effect on increasing antisemitism and anti-democratic/activity
This report lays out the way that Qatar is operating a war-chest with between $500 Billion – $1 Trillion USD of assets and growing, to affect soft power in the west – including the U.S.’ prestigious universities.
After October 7th, 2023, anti-Israel protests and violence erupted on U.S. college campuses like never before In addition to Qatari funding, these Hamas-supporting demonstrations on campus are also sponsored by Democrat Party donors including George Soros. Jewish students and professors have been assaulted, terrorized, and threatened with murder. Arguably, no college campus has been more lethal than Columbia University. But as we’ve stated, the anti-Israel, antisemitic state of U.S. colleges has been known for decades, especially Columbia.
From Africa-Israel Weekly’s, The Naked Truth:
In 2004, IBSI coalition partner Dr. Charles Jacobs, and his team produced a documentary about Columbia University professors’ aggressive anti-Israel indoctrination. The film is linked here and entitled Columbia Unbecoming. Once completed, it was presented to a large group of pro-Israel organization leaders from all over the country. [Dr. Jacobs] expressed his frustration as each of them refused to share the documentary.
“:With this film we tried to warn everyone what was coming. It was a smallish problem then. If you nip cancer in the bud, you might cure it, but if let to metastasize you have what we now face on American campuses - a tsunami of Jew-hate, well organized and well funded that is fast becoming to dominate campus culture.
“Back then the problem was the radical professors who intimidated and harassed Jewish students. Now it’s the entire left-wing student groups on campus plus the Arab and Muslim students plus all money that Arab and Muslim regimes donate to American universities that do not have to be publicly disclosed.”
[Dr. Jacobs] continued:
“We showed this film to Jewish leaders across the country and they fled. They wanted no conflict. They were fat and happy, and also on the left. I mean we met with the top Jewish leaders and they dismissed us. Now some of them wish they had paid attention and developed a strategy to fight back.”
As long as terrorist-affiliated anti-Israel groups are permitted to operate on US college campuses, no pro-Israel student group will ever be effective at combatting the antisemitism and Islamist propaganda in academia. Those pro-Israel student groups will only (inadvertently) make matters worse by lionizing the young people who serve as mouthpieces for Hamas and other Islamic terrorists.
Earlier this month, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killed October 7th Hamas mastermind, Yahya Sinwar. Along with routing Hezbollah leadership in Lebanon, Israel is well on its way to a complete military victory against Iranian regime proxies and Muslim Brotherhood jihadists. But the United States and the Western world are ideologically captured with Muslim Brotherhood operatives throughout society from academia to politics to national security to journalism. Israel is winning. The West is losing.
Over the past year since October 7th, there has been a flurry of activity by pro-Israel groups in the U.S. — Jewish and Christian. IBSI has attended many meetings across the country and has joined many initiatives that aim to raise awareness about the hatred for Israel and Jews (and hatred for America) on our campuses and throughout society. But, as well-meaning as these initiatives are, we have seen and heard nothing in the way of a proactive, viable strategy to defeat a decades-long movement to destroy America; a movement that has been enormously successful and is only gaining momentum. No pro-Israel organization will be able to turn this tide. This effort to save our country while defending its relationship with our greatest friend in the Middle East must come out of the White House. Should President Trump retake the Oval Office after the November 5th election, he must establish a task force. If Vice President Harris (who shares President Obama’s vision of Islamist appeasement) wins the election, this effort to save our country must still go forward. It will just be even more difficult to accomplish.
Next week, part 3 of the series Why the US-Israel relationship is a Matter of America's National Security will conclude with, The Bible.
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