{"id":1985022,"date":"2023-07-28T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-push-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-ordered-killing-of-any-zionist\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:18:34","slug":"senate-democrats-push-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-ordered-killing-of-any-zionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-push-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-ordered-killing-of-any-zionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats urge Egypt to release cleric who advocated for the killing of &#8216;any Zionist&#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%2Fsenate-democrats-push-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-ordered-killing-of-any-zionist%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=1985022&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<blockquote>\n<h2>Salah Soltan&#8217;s Children \u200bSupport Democratic Candidates and Campaigns<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Sen. Robert Menendez\u2063 (D., N.J.) \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Democrats are advocating for the release \u200bof an \u200cimprisoned \u2062Muslim cleric by the Egyptian government. This cleric has \u2064made disturbing \u2064statements, \u2062including calling for the murder of Israeli tourists, spreading the false \u2064claim that Jews use Christian blood to make bread, and proposing\u2064 a holy war\u2064 to &#8220;obliterate America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The support for\u200b Salah Soltan, who holds a U.S. green card and was imprisoned during Egypt&#8217;s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, comes after his \u2062children have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-push-egypt-to-free-cleric-who-ordered-killing-of-any-zionist\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats urge Egypt to release cleric who advocated for the killing of 'any Zionist'.\">donated significant amounts<\/a> of money to Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Appropriations \u2062Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs has included a provision in the 2024 State\u200c Department\u2063 appropriations bill that would require the State Department to consider \u200dSalah Soltan&#8217;s case as a condition for foreign aid to Egypt. Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) has \u2062put forward an \u200damendment to the \u2062bill supporting \u200bSoltan&#8217;s release, which has been approved by\u200d the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian government has\u2062 faced\u200b criticism for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-looms-over-israeli-presidents-speech-to-congress-amid-democratic-split\/\" title=\"Netanyahu overshadows Israeli president's Congress speech amidst Democratic divide.\">human rights\u200b abuses<\/a> and unjust imprisonments. However, Soltan&#8217;s advocacy of violence against Jews raises questions about why Senate \u200dDemocrats have \u200cchosen to highlight him as one of the few prisoners deserving \u2062of \u2064U.S. government support, especially\u2062 considering his family&#8217;s financial support for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Soltan is a vocal anti-Semite who, in 2011, issued a religious decree calling for the \u200cdeath of Israel&#8217;s\u200d ambassador\u200b and Israeli tourists in Egypt. He has\u200d also spread the anti-Semitic trope of\u200c &#8220;blood libel&#8221; by claiming that Jews use\u200c the blood of Christians to make bread during Passover.<\/p>\n<p>Soltan&#8217;s children have actively lobbied for their\u200b father&#8217;s release and have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naked-partisanship-and-influence-peddling-conservatives-blast-bidens-nominee-to-head-omb\/\" title=\"\u2018Naked Partisanship And Influence Peddling\u2019: Conservatives Blast Biden\u2019s Nominee To Head OMB\">made substantial donations<\/a> to Democratic campaigns. For example, his daughter\u200c Hanaa\u200c donated $47,000 to President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign and $18,600 to the Democratic National Committee in 2020. His son Mohamed donated\u2063 at least $10,000 to Biden&#8217;s campaign in the same year\u200c and has\u2063 made other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-regularly-consults-with-dark-money-funded-green-groups\/\" title=\"Pete Buttigieg Regularly Consults With Dark Money-Funded Green Groups\">significant donations<\/a> to Democratic politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns about Soltan&#8217;s health struggles in\u200d prison, it is important to consider the disturbing\u200c nature\u200b of \u200dhis beliefs\u200d and statements when\u2063 evaluating the support he \u200cis receiving from Senate Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salah Soltan&#8217;s offspring generously contributed thousands to Democratic candidates and campaigns, including Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.). Senate Democrats are urging Egypt to free a jailed Muslim cleric who advocates killing Israeli tourists, accuses Jews of using Christian blood in bread, and spreads anti-Semitic rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1985023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}