{"id":2234728,"date":"2024-05-01T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-convicted-terrorist-spotted-among-anti-israel-columbia-protesters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:56:28","slug":"wife-of-convicted-terrorist-spotted-among-anti-israel-columbia-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-convicted-terrorist-spotted-among-anti-israel-columbia-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted terrorist&#8217;s wife seen in Anti-Israel protest at Columbia"},"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\">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%2Fwife-of-convicted-terrorist-spotted-among-anti-israel-columbia-protesters%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=2234728&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>The wife of a convicted terrorist was seen among anti-Israel protesters at \u2063Columbia University. New York City Mayor Eric Adams mentioned her husband&#8217;s terrorism-related conviction. He also noted outside influences\u200b on the protest, leading to the takeover of Hamilton \u2063Hall\u2063 before NYPD intervention. The terrorist&#8217;s wife, Nahla, was confirmed in\u200d the demonstration \u200dby her husband, Sami Al-Arian. The convicted terrorist&#8217;s wife was spotted among anti-Israel protesters\u2064 at Columbia University. Mayor Eric Adams referenced her \u2064husband&#8217;s\u200d terrorism-related conviction and external influences on\u2064 the protest. This situation \u2062escalated\u2063 to the takeover of Hamilton Hall \u200bbefore NYPD action.\u200b Sami Al-Arian confirmed his wife \u2064Nahla&#8217;s presence in the demonstration.  <\/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<p>The wife of a man convicted of terrorism-related charges was spotted sitting among the tents of anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University who have occupied parts of campus for nearly two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/335-24\/transcript-mayor-adams-appears-live-msnbc-s-morning-joe-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d on Wednesday that the husband of a woman spotted at the demonstration had been \u201carrested for and convicted for terrorism on a federal level.\u201d Adams also said at a press conference on Wednesday that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/eric-adams-says-columbia-anti-israel-protest-was-co-opted-authorities-saw-evidence-of-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outside agitators<\/a>\u201d were influencing the Columbia demonstration, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-something-out-of-black-mirror-how-an-australian-town-became-a-smart-city-overnight\/\" title=\"\u2018Like Something Out Of Black Mirror\u2019: How An Australian Town Became A \u2018Smart-City\u2019 Overnight\">ultimately led<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-pa-lawsuit-dismissal-moves-us-closer-to-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Trump Lawyers: PA Lawsuit Dismissal Moves Us Closer to Supreme Court\">large group<\/a> of people taking over Hamilton Hall on the school\u2019s campus before NYPD officers cleared them out and arrested dozens of people on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>While Adams did not name the terrorist or his wife, Sami Al-Arian had posted on social media that his wife, Nahla, had joined the anti-Israel protesters at Columbia last week, The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/01\/us-news\/wife-of-convicted-terrorist-was-at-columbia-encampment-before-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My wife Nahla in solidarity with the brave and very determined Columbia University students. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ximkHFbZeo\">pic.twitter.com\/ximkHFbZeo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sami Al-Arian (@SamiAlArian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamiAlArian\/status\/1783885342690681172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2006, Al-Arian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archive\/opa\/pr\/2006\/April\/06_crm_221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to offering support to the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The Kuwait-born convicted terrorist was a computer engineering professor at the University of South Florida and was deported from the country in 2015 after his prison sentence ended.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Nahla was not a part of the mob of protesters who broke into Hamilton Hall. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner said, \u201cWe have no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on her part but that\u2019s something I wouldn\u2019t want influencing my child if I were a parent of somebody at Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams addressed the terrorist wife\u2019s presence during his appearance on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt what point, Mr. Mayor, did you and the NYPD view this as something more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/communist-china-appears-to-block-online-tiananmen-square-museum-follows-crackdown-on-other-exhibits\/\" title=\"Communist China Appears To Block Online Tiananmen Square Museum, Follows Crackdown On Other Exhibits\">student-led protest<\/a>?\u201d host Willie Geist asked. \u201cYou mentioned the outside agitators. Columbia talked about them and their students. They said it became clear to them that it wasn\u2019t just students inside that building. At what point was it known to you that this was something more and that there were people who maybe had plans for worse than what some of the students were up to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that when we started seeing footage and we were able to identify what was always my belief based on some of the organization\u2019s individuals, but once we were able to actually confirm that with our intelligence division and one of the individuals\u2019 husband was arrested for and convicted for terrorism on a federal level,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714129450076000&#038;usg=AOvVaw11MUL_oXewNl-yGfGqnuu8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we were able to identify some of the other people, I knew that there was no way I was going to allow those children to be exploited the way they were being exploited and many people thought that this was just a natural evolution of a protest. It was not,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted terrorist&#8217;s wife was seen among anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University. 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