{"id":1289153,"date":"2022-02-10T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1289153"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:11:45","slug":"how-marie-newmans-ethics-scandal-put-her-in-bed-with-a-terrorist-sympathizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-marie-newmans-ethics-scandal-put-her-in-bed-with-a-terrorist-sympathizer\/","title":{"rendered":"How Marie Newman\u2019s Ethics Scandal Put Her in Bed With a Terrorist Sympathizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-marie-newmans-ethics-scandal-put-her-in-bed-with-a-terrorist-sympathizer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1289153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">As a college professor, Illinois Dem&#8217;s foreign policy adviser praised convicted Palestinian terrorist<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229596168_736x514-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229596168_736x514.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229596168_736x514-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1229596168_736x514-703x491.jpeg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRep. Marie Newman (D., Ill.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 February 10, 2022 4:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman&#8217;s (Ill.) decision to bribe a local Palestinian activist out of her 2020 primary race hasn&#8217;t just led to ethics issues\u2014it also put a terrorist sympathizer in charge of her campaign&#8217;s foreign policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last June, Newman began paying Palestinian activist and Columbia College Chicago adjunct professor Iymen Chehade roughly $10,000 a month as her campaign&#8217;s &#8220;director of foreign policy and research,&#8221; financial disclosures show. The hire came about a year and a half after Newman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/illinois-dem-offered-activist-taxpayer-funded-job-in-alleged-bid-to-clear-primary-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>promised<\/span><\/a><span> Chehade a six-figure job to keep him out of her competitive primary race, a bribe that sparked an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-ethics-office-substantial-reason-to-believe-illinois-dem-offered-illegal-bribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>ongoing ethics investigation<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Years before he joined Newman&#8217;s campaign, Chehade helped facilitate a 2015 panel that brought Rasmea Odeh to campus through his position as faculty adviser for his college&#8217;s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. A convicted terrorist, Odeh was sentenced to life in prison for her role in a 1969 bombing that killed two college students in Jerusalem\u2014but Chehade praised her as &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; in a now-deleted tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chehade&#8217;s employment in Newman&#8217;s campaign in a<\/span> <span>crucial foreign policy role has sparked bipartisan backlash as she faces a difficult primary fight against fellow Illinois Democratic representative Sean Casten. Pro-Israel Democrats have already mobilized to oppose Newman in the race\u2014Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), for example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/01\/dmfi-pac-announces-first-slate-of-house-endorsements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>endorsed<\/span><\/a><span> Casten in January, with the group&#8217;s founder later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/trailer-coming-soon-democratic-primary-fight-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>lamenting<\/span><\/a><span> that Newman is &#8220;worse than we thought.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s alarming that Mr. Chehade would praise or even associate with Rasmea Odeh, a terrorist convicted of two bombings that killed two college students and injured others,&#8221; DMFI spokeswoman Rachel Rosen told the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>. &#8220;That Mr. Chehade would hold her up as a role model on a college campus is depraved.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chehade defended Odeh in a statement, telling the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon <\/span><\/i><span>that following her 1980 release from jail in a prisoner swap, the terrorist worked &#8220;to make positive contributions to her community.&#8221; Chehade also said he did not ask his SJP students to invite Odeh, though he did defend her presence on campus. Newman did not return a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chehade started teaching &#8220;Middle Eastern History and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict&#8221; at Columbia Chicago in 2007, his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iymenchehade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>website<\/span><\/a><span> states. According to anti-Israel website <em>Mondoweiss<\/em>, Chehade also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2014\/03\/chicago-schools-cancellation\/#sthash.FmE9LTVJ.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>serves<\/span><\/a><span> as faculty adviser for the school&#8217;s SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace chapters\u2014both groups back the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2015, Chehade&#8217;s SJP chapter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiachronicle.com\/d5f4de22-f616-11e4-9ed3-536e5a23508b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>hosted a panel<\/span><\/a><span> featuring Odeh, who settled in Chicago after concealing her status as a convicted terrorist on her U.S. immigration forms. In a now-deleted tweet, Chehade promoted the event by asking students and local residents to &#8220;support these extraordinary Palestinian Women at Columbia.&#8221; Chehade also told Columbia Chicago&#8217;s student newspaper that the panel &#8220;helped humanize the Palestinian issue of what happened 67 years ago in Palestine and the same struggle that continues today.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Years later, Newman began weighing a second congressional run after an unsuccessful 2018 primary challenge against former congressman Dan Lipinski (D., Ill.). Newman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/OCE-Rev.-21-3052_Referral-Exhibits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>attributed<\/span><\/a><span> her loss in part to her failure to &#8220;understand the Palestine-Israel issue very well,&#8221; and in May 2018, Chehade began informally advising Newman on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Chehade had congressional ambitions of his own, so in late 2018, Newman entered into negotiations with the activist to make him her &#8220;chief foreign policy adviser&#8221; should she secure election to Congress. Chehade <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-ethics-office-substantial-reason-to-believe-illinois-dem-offered-illegal-bribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>explicitly told Newman<\/span><\/a><span> that he &#8220;agree[d] not to announce or submit his candidacy for election&#8221; in Newman&#8217;s district in exchange for the job, emails show. He also asked Newman for a &#8220;commitment to endorse&#8221; him once Newman decided to leave office. Newman endorsed the proposal in an email responding to Chehade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Hi there,&#8221; Newman wrote to the activist in November 2018. &#8220;Took some time to digest the doc. Most of it looks good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While it&#8217;s against federal law for a candidate to offer employment to procure political support, Newman and Chehade went on to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/illinois-dem-offered-activist-taxpayer-funded-job-in-alleged-bid-to-clear-primary-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>sign a contract<\/span><\/a><span> that solidified the agreement. After Newman defeated Lipinski in 2020, however, she refused to hire Chehade, prompting a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/illinois-dem-admits-to-bribing-prospective-opponent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>breach of contract lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Newman and Chehade settled the suit\u2014which included a nondisclosure agreement\u2014just 10 days after congressional investigators informed Newman of a federal probe into the contract in June 2020. Within two days of the settlement agreement, Newman&#8217;s campaign <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/illinois-dem-appears-to-use-donor-funds-to-pay-settlement-to-political-rival-she-bribed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>began paying Chehade<\/span><\/a><span> a salary of roughly $10,000 a month to serve as its &#8220;director of foreign policy and research.&#8221; That move led to yet another <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FEC-Newman-Complaint51-3-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>ethics complaint<\/span><\/a><span> against Newman, with the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust arguing that Newman used &#8220;her campaign funds to attempt to cover up a criminal or ethics investigation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Republican Jewish Coalition national political director Sam Markstein said Newman should resign over the scandal.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We all know that congresswoman Newman is an extreme, far-left, anti-Israel member of Congress,&#8221; Markstein told the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>. &#8220;Now we&#8217;ve learned that she isn&#8217;t just extreme, but corrupt. Beyond her outrageous policy positions, it appears she traded her votes for political favors. Let&#8217;s be clear: Any member whose policy positions are for sale should resign.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to his role as Newman&#8217;s foreign policy adviser, Chehade launched a congressional campaign of his own in December, which he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fiVZ5uxVbpE&amp;t=81s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> as &#8220;another platform&#8221; to promote his anti-Israel activism in an interview with Palestine Broadcast International. Chehade&#8217;s campaign quickly earned the support of Suhair Nafal, a fellow Palestinian activist who has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNafal\/status\/542077965593358336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> Israelis &#8220;sick ugly monkies,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PalestiniansAreAlsoChristian\/posts\/463797200819874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>compared<\/span><\/a><span> the Jewish state to Nazi Germany, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNafal\/status\/603734359569465344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> to &#8220;exterminate the government of the [sic] Israel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is not the first time Newman has sided with terror-tied activists and organizations. In October, the Democrat <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/house-dems-praise-designated-terrorist-groups-for-courageous-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>backed<\/span><\/a><span> a resolution celebrating six designated Palestinian terror groups as &#8220;courageous.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats As a college professor, Illinois Dem&#8217;s foreign policy adviser praised convicted Palestinian terrorist  Rep. 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