{"id":1866289,"date":"2023-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-awards-grant-to-palestinian-activist-group-whose-leaders-hailed-terrorist-as-hero-fighter\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:21:15","slug":"biden-admin-awards-grant-to-palestinian-activist-group-whose-leaders-hailed-terrorist-as-hero-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-awards-grant-to-palestinian-activist-group-whose-leaders-hailed-terrorist-as-hero-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Awards Grant to Palestinian Activist Group Whose Leaders Hailed Terrorist as &#8216;Hero Fighter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-awards-grant-to-palestinian-activist-group-whose-leaders-hailed-terrorist-as-hero-fighter%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=1866289&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-->\n<div>\n<p>The Biden administration gave a $78,000 grant to a Palestinian activist group whose leaders attended an anniversary event celebrating the founding of a terrorist group and praised the murderer of a U.S. military attach\u00e9 as a &#8220;hero fighter,&#8221; According to a funding announcement.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The grant was given to the Community Development and Continuing Education Institute, an activist group based on the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories. &#8220;youth participation and accountability in local governance,&#8221; In November, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced that it was closing.<\/p>\n<p>An anti-terrorism group raised concerns about the funding after learning that the board chairman of the activist group was present at a celebration for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organisation, while the other board members applauded the convicted terrorists. &#8220;heroes&#8221; Hamas missile attacks against Israel were applauded and applauded.<\/p>\n<p>NGO Monitor, an independent watchdog group, investigated CDCEI funding and questioned federal government grantee vetting processes. This news about the USAID grant comes at a time when the Biden State department has been subject to criticism. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/issa-calls-on-biden-to-suspend-funding-to-gaza-charity-after-free-beacon-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawmakers<\/a> For <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/state-department-gives-41k-to-charity-that-partners-with-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funding<\/a> Fares Al-Arab runs a Gaza-based journalistic training program that promotes anti-Israel views.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These findings reinforce the need for USAID to consult a wide array of publicly available sources when vetting potential grantees, to ensure that taxpayer funds are not provided to organizations led by individuals that glorify violence, espouse anti-Semitic rhetoric, or embrace anti-normalization,&#8221; NGO Monitor stated. &#8220;USAID grantees should align with U.S. goals and values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USAID did not respond. CDCEI has not responded to a request for comments.<\/p>\n<p>CDCEI stands for CDCEI. &#8220;nonprofit organization established in Bethlehem in 2010&#8221; That &#8220;promotes the values of human rights, pluralism, equality, good governance, and civic participation within the Palestinian society,&#8221; According to its website. According to an NGO Monitor investigation, however, Arabic-language news articles as well as social media posts paint a different picture of the group&#8217;s leadership. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An article by an Associated Press reports that Imad Al-Zeer was the chairman of CDCEI\u2019s board of director since 2012. <em>Al-Hadaf <\/em>news\u00a0report translated by NGO Monitor. Al-Zeer was photographed next to Popular Front signs in photos taken at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Senior board members expressed support for terrorists through social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Salman, the deputy chairman of CDCEI&#8217;s\u00a0board, in an April 2, 2020, Facebook post translated by NGO Monitor praised &#8220;hero fighter&#8221; George Abdallah called for Abdallah to be released from prison. Abdallah is in France serving a life sentence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dia.mil\/News-Features\/Articles\/Article-View\/Article\/567044\/we-remember-colonel-charles-r-ray-murdered-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. military attach\u00e9 Charles R. Ray<\/a>Both an Israeli diplomat and a diplomat from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together, with one another, to support the release of George Abdallah,&#8221; wrote Salman. &#8220;One of the idioms used by the hero fighter George is &#8216;I shall never compromise, I shall keep resisting.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salman also celebrated six in 2021&#8217;s post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/terror-charges-and-life-sentences-the-6-palestinians-who-escaped-gilboa-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">escaped<\/a> Palestinian prisoners &#8220;heroes&#8221;\u2014including Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member convicted of killing an Israeli teenager in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>After the Israeli military massacre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hamas-cell-hit-in-west-bank-raids-planned-massive-jerusalem-terror-attack-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five members<\/a> Salman wrote that a Hamas terrorist cell was formed in Sept. 2021. &#8220;May Allah have mercy on the spirits of Palestinian hero martyrs, including the five martyrs that rose to the supreme companion yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yasser Shaheed, a CDCEI board Member, applauded Hamas missile strikes on Israel in a May 10, 2021 Facebook post. It was translated by NGO Monitor. &#8220;rockets of the Palestinian resistance.&#8221; He also wept. &#8220;hero martyr Omar Abu Layla,&#8221; Three days after Layla&#8217;s murder of a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, a rabbi was killed by Layla.<\/p>\n<p>Jiries Abu Ghannam, a board member, published a post on Facebook in &#8220;solidarity with the prisoner fighter Marwan Al-Barghouti in his 19th year in Israeli prison.&#8221; Barghouti, a convicted killer who instigated the first and second Intifadas, is now behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Abu Farha was another board member in a post last march translated by NGO Monitor. &#8220;44th anniversary of Dalal Al-Mughrabi and 11 Palestinian revolutionaries&#8217; martyrdom&#8221; She praised the female terrorist and called her a &#8220;hero&#8221;. &#8220;beautiful and brave fighter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This post refers to Al-Mughrabi\u2019s 1978 bus hijacking, which resulted in the murder of 38 Israelis including 13 children. Al-Mughrabi also murdered Gail Rubin, a niece of a former U.S. senator.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been scrutinizing funding for CDCEI and other Palestinian groups in recent weeks. Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/issa-calls-on-biden-to-suspend-funding-to-gaza-charity-after-free-beacon-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> Following a protest by Fares Al-Arab&#8217;s Gaza-based charity Fares Al-Arab being denied funding, this week called on the State Department. <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/state-department-gives-41k-to-charity-that-partners-with-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> That group worked with terrorists to find the group.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/illegals-voting-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=202303dcvoting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/illegals-voting-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=202303dcvoting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As recently as 2021, the group collaborated with Hamas on a housing project. A media award was also given by the charity to an Islamic Jihad Movement-run radio network. It honored a self-described journalist who belonged the Popular Front and hosted a press freedom conference that featured a spokesperson for Islamic Jihad and co-led a course on human rights with a convicted terrorist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-awards-grant-to-palestinian-activist-group-whose-leaders-hailed-terrorist-as-hero-fighter\/\">Biden Admin Awards Grant to Palestinian Activist Group Whose Leaders Hailed Terrorist as &#8216;Hero Fighter&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>Conservative News Daily is not required to endorse the views or opinions expressed in the article.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration gave a $78,000 grant to a Palestinian activist group whose leaders attended an anniversary event celebrating the founding of a terrorist group and praised the murderer of a U.S. military attach\u00e9 as a &#8220;hero fighter,&#8221; According to a funding announcement. 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