{"id":190328,"date":"2021-03-04T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190328"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:33:33","slug":"report-u-s-college-groups-have-assisted-a-designated-terrorist-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-u-s-college-groups-have-assisted-a-designated-terrorist-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: U.S. College Groups Have Assisted A Designated Terrorist Org"},"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\">20<\/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%2Freport-u-s-college-groups-have-assisted-a-designated-terrorist-org%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=190328&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/PFLP-Flag.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A new report alleges that U.S. college groups have assisted a Palestinian terrorist organization in promoting its messaging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/clarionproject.org\/army-of-ngos\/\">report<\/a> from the Clarion Project, a research organization established to expose extremist ideologies, U.S. campus organizations that claim to fight for the rights of Palestinians have assisted groups with direct links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization backed by the Iranian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>PFLP is listed as a designated terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Israel. Its stated goal is to destroy the State of Israel and remove Western capitalism from the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019\/#PFLP\">State Department<\/a><span>, the PFLP is responsible for killing three Americans in Jerusalem in 2014 and more than 20 U.S. citizens in airplane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The PFLP operates internationally by establishing proxy groups that appear far less menacing, but have direct ties to terrorism. In 2018, the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/system\/files\/136\/2018ntfra_12182018.pdf\"><span>U.S. Treasury Department<\/span><\/a> <span>said that \u201cin many cases, these organizations are fraudulent or sham charitable organizations; they are established with purported charitable aims but operate almost solely to facilitate terrorist financing or support for a terrorist group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Addameer, a group that has a presence on U.S. college compuses, is a non-governmental institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in both Israel and Palestinian prisons. The organization\u2019s activities include providing free legal representation for Palestinian prisoners and detainees \u2014 including convicted terrorists \u2014 and ensuring that prisoners have rights to medical assistance and education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Clarion Project\u2019s report alleges that some of Addameer\u2019s board members and staff are also connected to the PFLP. For example, the Director of Addameer, Sahar Francis, allegedly has close ties to Ahmad Saadat who\u00a0<\/span><span>was the PFLP\u2019s Secretary-General before he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2001\/10\/25\/israel-details-assassination-plot-against-zeevi\/8510343d-e9b4-4ced-ac7e-e98168bd655f\/\">imprisoned<\/a> by Israel for killing Israeli citizens and planning the assassination of the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Zeevi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Under Addameer, Francis has traveled to U.S. college campuses to give lectures sponsored by campus organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace and the Students for Justice in Palestine, both of which operate under the purview of progressive politics and have been criticized for alleged anti-Semitic agendas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2013 and 2017, Addameer hosted a U.S. speaking tour for Francis. In 2013, she spoke at events hosted by the University of California-Irvine and San Francisco State University. Other stops included the Mosque Foundation in Chicago and stops in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Detroit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a short stint in the U.S., Francis spoke at Stanford University for an event hosted by the Students for Justice in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2017, Francis\u2019 speaking tour included a stop in Brooklyn, a stop in California at Moraine Valley College, and a stop in Atlanta at Emory University. The Emory University event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Voice for Peace organization and Students for Justice in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ryan Mauro, a fellow at the Clarion Project, told The Daily Wire that PFLP\u2019s relationship with college campuses is frightening, especially because it presents itself as holding \u201cprogressive\u201d and \u201cliberal\u201d values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[PFLP\u2019s army of NGOs] are able to access the minds of our next leaders by coming to college campuses,\u201d Mauro said. \u201cThis PFLP network should be seen as the very antithesis of \u2018progressive\u2019 and liberal values. Yet \u2026 these extremists\u2019 strategy is assisted by so-called progressive activists in the name of civil liberties, interfaith dialogue, and humanitarianism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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