{"id":2595143,"date":"2026-04-25T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgetown-sjp-solicits-letters-of-support-for-political-prisoners-convicted-of-funneling-millions-to-hamas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:22:41","slug":"georgetown-sjp-solicits-letters-of-support-for-political-prisoners-convicted-of-funneling-millions-to-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgetown-sjp-solicits-letters-of-support-for-political-prisoners-convicted-of-funneling-millions-to-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown SJP Solicits Letters of Support For \u2018Political Prisoners\u2019 Convicted of Funneling Millions To Hamas"},"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%2Fgeorgetown-sjp-solicits-letters-of-support-for-political-prisoners-convicted-of-funneling-millions-to-hamas%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=2595143&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>Georgetown University\u2019s students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-wisconsin-campus-asks-students-to-take-21-week-equity-challenge\/\" title=\"University Of Wisconsin Campus Asks ... To Take 21-Week \u2018Equity Challenge\u2019\">chapter hosted<\/a> a letter-writing event asking people to send support to several people it calls \u201cpolitical prisoners,\u201d including the founders of the holy Land Foundation-Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker-who were convicted in a federal case tied to providing material support to Hamas. The article says the group framed the letter recipients\u2019 convictions as misguided and described the alleged \u201cmaterial support\u201d as charitable \u201czakat,\u201d while also encouraging writers to address the prisoners \u201cas a comrade\u201d and to emphasize the \u201cjustice\u201d of their cause.<\/p>\n<p>The SJP chapter also sought letters for Tarek Bazrouk and Jakhi McCray, described as radical anti-Israel activists who were convicted of violent crimes. The article characterizes Bazrouk as having attacked Jewish protesters and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >notes prosecutors found weapons<\/a>, large cash amounts, and anti-Jewish\/pro-Hamas imagery. For McCray, it cites federal arson convictions involving setting fire to NYPD vehicles and discusses the financial damage and expected prison exposure, while noting SJP rejected the plea outcome as coercive.<\/p>\n<p>It further claims other campus groups have similarly honored or amplified support for people described as pro-terror \u201cpolitical prisoners,\u201d citing an example from UC berkeley Law where an SJP chapter hosted a \u201cteach-in\u201d featuring Israa Jaabis,who was convicted of attacking an Israeli police officer and was released under a hostage deal. Georgetown is said to have not responded to a comment request, according to the article.  <\/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<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Georgetown SJP Solicits Letters of Support For \u2018Political Prisoners\u2019 Convicted of Funneling Millions To Hamas\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/new-political-protest-trend-accosting-pro-crime-millionaires-outside-their-fancy-homes\" data-post-url id=\"print-2132674\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>The group also sought support for two other \u2018comrades Caged by US Empire\u2019 who were convicted of violent crimes<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tPosts from @sjpgeorgetown\/Instagram, Georgetown University logo (georgetown.edu)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Georgetown University&#8217;s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter is soliciting letters of support for &#8220;political prisoners&#8221;\u2014namely the founders of the Holy Land Foundation, a nonprofit the Department of Justice said &#8220;existed to support Hamas,&#8221; who were convicted for funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist organization. Other recipients include criminals who torched New York Police Department cars and repeatedly attacked Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The SJP chapter held a letter-writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW6xEw-kQ37\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a> on April 15 to &#8220;stand in solidarity with our comrades \u2026 caged by the U.S. empire for their resistance to occupation and repression&#8221; and named Holy Land Foundation founders Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker among the &#8220;political prisoners&#8221; the group would write to. A Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXe_g1CkUsW\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram post<\/a>, which called to abolish prisons, provided guidance for those who couldn&#8217;t attend the session, instructing writers to greet the prisoners &#8220;as a comrade&#8221; and to &#8220;honor their steadfastness and the justice of their cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/04\/localimages\/IMG_7998.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/04\/localimages\/IMG_8002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elashi and Abu Baker were sentenced to 65 years in prison after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/federal-judge-hands-downs-sentences-holy-land-foundation-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> in 2008 of providing material support to a designated terrorist organization. Under their guidance, the Holy Land Foundation funneled roughly $12.4 million to Hamas under the guise of charitable donations, according to the Justice Department. The Council on American-Islamic Relations was an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown SJP, however, described the &#8220;material support&#8221; charges as charitable &#8220;zakat&#8221; to &#8220;Palestinian orphans and widows&#8221; and cast doubt on the evidence used in their convictions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/04\/localimages\/IMG_8004.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prison is the colonizer&#8217;s weapon against a people who refuse to disappear. It is how the carceral state cages resistance, isolates our comrades, and turns solidarity into a crime,&#8221; SJP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXe_g1CkUsW\/?img_index=1\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;This is one struggle. The same US empire that bombs Gaza funds the zionist prisons and brings federal cases against our comrades here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group also solicited letters to Tarek Bazrouk and Jakhi McCray, radical anti-Israel activists who were convicted of violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Bazrouk, a 20-year-old self-described &#8220;Jew hater,&#8221; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/new-york-man-sentenced-17-months-prison-hate-crimes-after-repeatedly-assaulting-jewish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to 17 months in prison for hate crimes after attacking Jewish protesters at three demonstrations across 2024 and 2025, including at Columbia University. Investigators found a stash of weapons and $750,000 in cash when they searched his apartment as well as pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah images on his phone, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/crime\/inshallah-allah-get-us-rid-of-them-new-yorker-accused-of-attacking-jewish-students-stashed-weapons-750000-and-phone-littered-with-anti-semitic-messages-prosecutors-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/antisemitic-attacker-faced-30-year-sentence-gets-less-than-1-and-a-half-years-plea-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criminal history<\/a> includes robbery, additional assaults, and operating a drug factory in Hartford, Conn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/04\/localimages\/IMG_8003-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McCray, meanwhile, pleaded guilty earlier this month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-and-antifa-activists-who-tried-to-frame-right-wing-group-for-crimes-convicted-of-arson\/\" title=\"BLM and Antifa Activists Who Tried to Frame Right Wing ... for Crimes ... of Arson\">federal arson charges<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/brooklyn-man-pleads-guilty-setting-nypd-vehicles-ablaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">setting fire<\/a> to 10 NYPD vehicles and a trailer on June 12, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/america\/ilhan-omars-daughter-fundraises-for-self-described-jew-hater-who-assaulted-jewish-counter-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">causing<\/a> approximately $800,000 in damage. The 22-year-old faces a minimum of 5 years in prison and up to 20, along with a fine and restitution. He has also been linked to instances of vandalism, including one at Columbia.        <\/p>\n<p>Georgetown SJP described him as a &#8220;committed anti-imperialist organizer&#8221; and called his plea deal &#8220;inherently coercive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/04\/localimages\/IMG_8005.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Georgetown did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The university&#8217;s SJP chapter was not the only one to honor pro-terror &#8220;political prisoners&#8221; this month. On Monday, the University of California Berkeley law school SJP chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/berkeley-law-sjp-hosts-palestinian-car-bomber-released-in-oct-7-hostage-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> a virtual &#8220;teach-in&#8221; with Israa Jaabis, a convicted Palestinian terrorist released in an Oct. 7, 2023, hostage deal. In 2015, Jaabis shouted &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; and detonated a gas canister near an Israeli police officer, severely burning both herself and the officer. She was en route to perpetrate what authorities believed was a planned suicide bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Jaabis thanked the UC Berkeley students for their support, saying their attendance as law students gave her hope that &#8220;there remains some humanity&#8221; and that they would help amplify &#8220;our call to liberate Palestinian prisoners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/review-michael\/\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/a> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3> \t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/review-michael\/\" target=\"_blank\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tREVIEW: \u2018Michael\u2019\t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/h3>\n<p> \t\t\t \t\t\tThe Michael Jackson biopic gives new meaning to the word &#8216;sanitizing&#8217;\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SJP Georgetown solicits letters for \u201cpolitical prisoners\u201d including Holy Land Foundation founders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":2595144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MixCollage-24-Apr-2026-02-49-PM-2280-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38229,78589,50400,78590,48914],"class_list":["post-2595143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-campus-activism","tag-georgetown-sjp","tag-hamas-2","tag-letters-of-support","tag-political-prisoners"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MixCollage-24-Apr-2026-02-49-PM-2280-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595143","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595147,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595143\/revisions\/2595147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}