{"id":2232826,"date":"2024-04-29T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adeel-mangi-downplayed-his-involvement-with-anti-israel-think-tank-emails-show\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:42:15","slug":"adeel-mangi-downplayed-his-involvement-with-anti-israel-think-tank-emails-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adeel-mangi-downplayed-his-involvement-with-anti-israel-think-tank-emails-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeel Mangi Minimized Ties to Anti-Israel Group in Emails"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fadeel-mangi-downplayed-his-involvement-with-anti-israel-think-tank-emails-show%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=2232826&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--><p>During his confirmation hearing, Adeel Mangi,\u200d a Biden judicial nominee, stated he left an anti-Israel group due to its productivity. However, his\u200c emails reveal\u200b his praise for the group and ongoing \u2064support, causing scrutiny over \u200bhis involvement. Republicans, police groups, and some Senate\u200d Democrats\u2064 oppose\u200c Mangi due to \u2064his ties to controversial organizations, urging\u200c President Biden to \u200dreconsider his nomination.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>During his confirmation hearing, embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi told senators that he left the board of an anti-Israel think tank because it was not sufficiently &#8220;productive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in his resignation email, Mangi said he was leaving the board because he had too many other commitments, praised the think tank\u2019s &#8220;excellent work,&#8221; and pledged his &#8220;ongoing financial support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will really enjoy watching you continue to build the organization in the years ahead,&#8221; Mangi wrote to Sahar Aziz, the director of the Rutgers Center for Race, Security and Rights, on June 15, 2023. &#8220;I don\u2019t like to stay on any board for more than a couple of years or so as I think fresh blood and exposure to new areas is very important on all sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The letter is one of several emails obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon, <\/em>which cast doubt on Mangi\u2019s statements about his involvement with the Rutgers Center. Mangi, the nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, told senators that his role as an advisory board member was &#8220;limited to participating in four meetings&#8221; regarding the center\u2019s &#8220;academic research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But emails show Mangi did far more than that, helping Aziz recruit new members to the board, singing the group\u2019s praises to colleagues, and bringing the Rutgers Center onto a diversity initiative spearheaded by his law firm.<\/p>\n<p>The email could cause trouble for Mangi, who has downplayed his work with the Rutgers Center amid scrutiny over the group\u2019s anti-Israel rhetoric. The center hosted Sami al-Arian, a financier of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, at a 9\/11 anniversary event in which speakers blamed &#8220;U.S. imperialism&#8221; for the terrorist attack. And Aziz, who founded the center in 2018, has said she was &#8220;in awe of the Palestinian struggle to resist&#8221; Israeli settlers.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Mangi\u2019s emails show he &#8220;misled the committee&#8221; about his relationship with the Rutgers Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At his nomination hearing, Mr. Mangi sought to downplay his role with the Center and his knowledge of its work. Now we know he misled the committee,&#8221; Graham told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;President Biden should immediately withdraw this nomination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, police groups, and three Senate Democrats oppose Mangi over his links to the Rutgers Center and left-wing groups that have called to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-headlines-save-america-rally-in-sarasota-fla\/\" title=\"President Trump headlines Save America rally in Sarasota, Fla.\">defund police departments<\/a> and advocated for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ted-cruz-grills-biden-doj-nominee-for-allegedly-organizing-event-that-celebrated-cop-killers\/\" title=\"WATCH: Ted Cruz Grills Biden DOJ Nominee For Allegedly Organizing Event That Celebrated Cop Killers\">convicted cop killers<\/a>. The White House has resisted calls to pull Mangi\u2019s nomination and accused Republicans of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; for opposing the first Muslim nominee to the federal appeals court.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, Mangi contacted a potential board member after Aziz sought his help in recruiting more African-American Muslims to the advisory board. In June 2020, Mangi solicited another colleague to join the board. He said the time commitment was &#8220;pretty small,&#8221; consisting of &#8220;two or three calls and one live meeting a year,&#8221; and that board members are required to donate between $1,000 and $2,000. Mangi also praised Aziz as a &#8220;force of nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mangi helped the center &#8220;push&#8221; a diversity initiative sponsored by his law firm, Patterson Belknap. In March 2021, he told Aziz that he was cutting through &#8220;red tape&#8221; with his firm on the unspecified initiative, but that he had received &#8220;approval from our diversity group to push it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mangi, who has donated $6,500 to the Rutgers Center, has already been accused of misleading lawmakers about his activities with the think tank. He failed to disclose to senators that he moderated a panel with Aziz on &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in 2022 at a conference sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an anti-Israel group linked to Hamas. Mangi amended his responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee after the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2906704\/biden-judicial-pick-anti-israel-activists-event-sponsored-terrorism-tied-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> his appearance at the event.<\/p>\n<p>He has denied involvement in the Rutgers Center\u2019s controversial events and said he was unaware of its 9\/11 anniversary event with al-Arian, the convicted terrorism financier. The event received national attention after Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D., N.J.) <a href=\"https:\/\/gottheimer.house.gov\/posts\/release-gottheimer-speaks-at-rutgers-hillel-to-combat-rising-antisemitism-on-campus-across-new-jersey-stresses-importance-for-us-israel-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> to &#8220;castigate and alienate&#8221; the Rutgers think tank for providing a platform to speakers &#8220;with ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-official-worked-with-anti-israel-group-tied-to-embattled-biden-judicial-nominee\/\" title=\"Department of Homeland Security Official Collaborated with Organization Critical of Israel Linked to Controversial Biden Nominee\">militant terrorist organizations<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mangi has denied knowing that Aziz signed an open letter in May 29, 2021, that stated she was &#8220;in awe of the Palestinian struggle to resist violent occupation, removal, erasure, and the expansion of Israeli settler colonialism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mangi told senators during his confirmation hearing that he condemns all forms of terrorism, but he stopped short of condemning the think tank. And he pleaded ignorance when asked about Aziz\u2019s statements about &#8220;the Palestinian struggle&#8221; against Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not have the expertise or factual background to express views regarding the complex history of the conflict in the Middle East,&#8221; he told senators.\t<\/p>\n<p>The center and Aziz have embraced anti-Israel rhetoric in the aftermath of Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Days after the attack, Aziz hosted an event, &#8220;Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Resistance in Palestine,&#8221; in which the invited guest said that &#8220;Zionist settler colonialism&#8221; was the &#8220;provocation&#8221; for Hamas\u2019s attack. On Dec. 4, Aziz hosted an event with Columbia University professor Joseph Massad, a prominent anti-Israel academic who has called the Hamas attack &#8220;incredible&#8221; and &#8220;awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mangi, Aziz, and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his confirmation hearing, Adeel Mangi, a contentious Biden judicial nominee, informed senators that he exited an anti-Israel think tank due to its lack of productivity. 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