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October 19, 2017
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Hamas-Supporting
CAIR Leader to Lecture Harvard Student Group
by IPT News • Oct 19, 2017 at
6:20 pm
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He has publicly endorsed Hamas and secretly schemed with the Palestinian terrorist group's
supporters to thwart
U.S.-led peace efforts.
Now Nihad Awad is preparing a prestigious lecture for Harvard University
students on how "to inspire a deeper engagement with critical social
issues on campus and in the wider community." He is scheduled to be honored the first weekend of November with the Phillips
Brooks House Association's Robert Coles "Call of Service" Lecture
and Award. Past recipients of the honor include former Vice President Al
Gore and Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman.
A Harvard release describes Awad as "a leading advocate for justice
and mutual understanding, promoting dialogue and empowering American
Muslims."
That's extraordinarily generous, as Awad's words and deeds foster mutual
enmity, not understanding; deception, not dialogue.
He was a member of a Muslim Brotherhood-created network of organizations
operating in the United States with a mission to help Hamas politically and
financially. Awad appears on the "Palestine Committee's" telephone list. Internal records seized by the FBI also
show that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Awad
co-founded in 1994 and has served as its only executive director ever
since, was a Palestine Committee branch.
Before creating CAIR, Awad ran a second Palestine Committee entity,
called the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP served as a Hamas propaganda arm, publishing the
terrorist group's communiques and articles advocating on its behalf. The
FBI described his partner at both IAP and CAIR, Omar Ahmed,
as a "leader within the Palestine Committee."
Again, all of this is drawn from internal Muslim Brotherhood/Palestine
Committee records seized by the FBI. They were entered into evidence in a
federal terror financing trial involving the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development. The foundation, another Palestine Committee
entity, and five former officials all were convicted of illegally routing $12 million to Hamas
through a network of charities.
All of this information is in the public domain.
So what prompted a Harvard student group – by definition smart, educated
young people – to identify Nihad Awad as an inspirational paragon of
service?
It turns out that the Phillips Brooks House Association's programming
chair, Anwar Omeish, is the daughter of another advocate for
Palestinian violence, former Muslim American-Society President Esam Omeish.
Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia state immigration
panel in 2007 after an exclusive IPT video showed him praising Palestinians
for choosing the "the jihad way ... to liberate your land."
Awad was in Omeish's home for a 2010 political fundraiser where U.S.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., accused
Israel of controlling U.S. foreign policy.
We are First Amendment supporters, and the Phillips Brooks House
Association is free to invite whomever it pleases. Whitewashing Nihad
Awad's decades of work on behalf of terrorists and radicals, however,
doesn't seem to be in the best interests of a group seeking inspiration on
public service.
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