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Greg Meeks, ‘Squad’ took thousands from nonprofit under investigation
for funding Hamas
By Jon Levine
Published Nov. 11, 2023, 9:37 a.m. ET

Rep. Rashida Tlaib
AMP's executive director, Osama Abu Irshaid, gave $500 to Rep. Rashida
Tlaib.
AP
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“Squad” received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from a nonprofit currently under investigation for potentially financing Hamas terrorism.

Last month Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced American
Muslims for Palestine was being probed for “allegations that the
organization may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under
state law, including benefitting or providing support to terrorist organizations.”

The group is also known as AJP Educational Foundation Inc.

The complaint linked to a May 2022 lawsuit which accused American
Muslims for Palestine of “providing indirect support for Hamas”

In 2021, AMP’s executive director, Osama Abu Irshaid, donated $3,000 to
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens), according to records. Meeks is the top
Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee who has been dogged by corruption accusations for years.

Osama Abu Irshaid
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Osama Abu Irshaid leads American Muslims for Palestine — which is now
being investigated for allegedly supporting terroris.
American Muslims for Palestine
A year later, Irshaid gave $500 to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — who
was censured after publicly defending Hamas and calling for the
destruction of Israel.

He gave a smattering of smaller donations to other Squad members,
including AOC ($105); Missouri Rep. Cori Bush ($56); Minnesota Rep.
Ilhan Omar ($56), and Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley ($31.)

Salah Sarsour, an AMP national board member, added another $1,000 to
Tlaib in 2019, while Dr. Hatem Al-Bazian, who is listed as AMP’s
chairman, has given Omar $1,250 over the years.

“The work AMP and all Palestinian advocacy organizations have been doing
has never been more important,” Tlaib says in a quote featured on the
AMP website.

Rep. Gregory Meeks with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Gregory Meeks has taken at least $3,000 from American Muslims for Palestine.
AP
In AMP’s scorecard of New York state lawmakers, only AOC and Rep. Jamaal Bowman received an A rating.

Even before the Virginia probe, American Muslims for Palestine had long
been hotbed of antisemitic activity, according to the Anti-Defamation
League. On Oct. 7 — the day Hamas terrorists massacred roughly 1,400
Israeli civilians — the group put out a statement declaring that
“Israeli violence is the root cause of violence and unrest in the region.”

“Zionism is a racist ideology that promotes the supremacy of white Jews
over everyone else living in Palestine. At its core, Zionism is white supremacy,” Irshaid thundered in a posting to X from May 2022.

AMP also works closely with Students for Justice in Palestine — whose
founder is AMP board member Hatem Al-Bazian — a radical student
organization which has been banned by Brandeis University and the entire
state university system of Florida for supporting Hamas.

House squad members Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and
Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
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Members of the squad have taken thousands of dollars from an
organization now under investigation for terrorism ties
Getty Images
“It comes as no surprise that members of the Hamas Caucus and other
radical left-wing Democrats have received significant donations from AJP Educational Foundation Inc., also known as American Muslims for
Palestine, a nonprofit that is now being investigated for financing terrorism,” said upstate NY Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-Finger
Lakes). “I am beyond honored to have received an F rating from this
terrorist organization due to my commitment to Israel.”

In a statement, AMP insisted they were innocent the allegations and
would be vindicated.

“AMP does not support terrorism. AMP is a wholly U.S. nonprofit, which
raises funds within the United States and puts them to use itself within
the United States, for its completely legal stated purpose of educating
the American public on the rich history and culture of Palestine,” a spokeswoman told The Post.

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