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Fifth Column

Elon Musk asked, ‘Who is funding and organizing all these [Tesla Takedown] paid protests?’

2025-04-01

@AsraNomani has the most comprehensive spreadsheet I've seen on who's actually financing the protests: https://t.co/QvuVxEosFN
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) March 30, 2025

Asra Nomani
@AsraNomani
Hello
@ElonMusk
and Friends,

You asked who is funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests. I've got answers for you, after going onto the streets of northern Virginia for the local protests here, seeing familiar faces from the Virginia Democratic political machine and then following the money -- and the data.

AstroTurf Protest Industry
To your question, at latest count, as of 3/30, 5:30 AM:
🔴24 organizations and counting are funding and organizing the #TeslaTakedown protests and leading the very partisan propaganda campaign against Tesla, Tesla drivers, Tesla employees, Donald Trump and you. See below to see all 24 groups with their revenues, involvement, tax ID numbers and other info.
🔴These organizations have combined annual revenues of at least $124 MILLION and counting.
🔴 100% of the groups are aligned with the Democratic Party. At the protest on 3/29 at Tyco Road, in Tysons, Va., a photo I took of a "Virginia Democrats" sign in front of the Tesla dealership.
🔴 Most of these groups enjoy tax-deductible status as 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, claiming they are "nonpartisan." A few have PACs. The organizations have not returned requests for comment.

Database
🔴 You can see the raw data on 306 #TeslaTakedown protests in the database here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13MOGhdMPc-_lGGdEGkS0QVSayczGG7Z5rlk_LUxdCTk/edit?usp=sharing

Back story
I'm a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a propaganda expert and editor of the
@DPearlProject
, a journalism nonprofit named for my WSJ colleague and friend Daniel Pearl. Since Oct. 7th, I have been reporting on the anti-Jew, anti-America, anti-Israel protests and building a database, following the money. It numbers 2,000 groups now, and I am working on a web and mobile app for parents, policymakers, university administrators, law enforcement, the public and others.

I went to the #TeslaTakedown protest a week ago Saturday on Tyco Road at the Tysons, Va., and saw familiar faces from Indivisible and the Fairfax County Democratic Party, shouting for you to be deported as they stood outside the Tesla dealership. I wondered too who is organizing and funding the protests nationwide.

I got the protest details scraped from ActionNetwork and Mobilize, the two platforms aligned with the Democratic Party promoting the #TeslaTakedown protests, and built a public database of the groups behind the Tesla protest.

AstroTurf, not "grassroots"
🔴 In an article for the
@FairfaxTimes
, I wrote about how the local protests in Tysons, are a window into how the protests are AstroTurf, not "grassroots." What this case reveals is the way that a multi-million dollar professional protest industry manufactures outrage in top-down political theater, agitprop, or agitation propaganda, and now criminal offenses. Here is the article: https://fairfaxtimes.com/articles/local-teslatakedown-reveals-grassroots-protests-are-astroturf/article_1c368d4d-708c-4074-b5fa-5eaf6a32ea97.html

🔴 Next step: I just got data on the April 5 #HandsOff protests and will be adding that data to the database. In addition, I am completing an analysis of the propaganda using the tools of natural language processing and content analysis.

Why is this important to report on? Because defending principles of free enterprise and individual liberty in the U.S. means allowing people to buy whatever make of car they wish without fear of danger or harassment and allowing companies to do business without fear of danger or harassment.

All, please let me know if you have any questions, ideas or recommendations.
Asra
asra@asranomani.com
To support the Pearl Project: http://asranomani.com/donate

24+ Groups Leading and Funding #TeslaTakedown
(and counting)

🔴1. Name: 50501
Mission: protesting "anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies"
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: Not transparent
Headquarters: Not transparent
EIN IRS Number: Not transparent
Key Leader(s): Not transparent
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests

🔴2. Name: ActionNetwork
Mission: "trains and educates progressive"
Annual Revenues: unknown
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
EIN IRS Number: 46-1832144
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Organizing platform.

🔴3. Name: Action Network Fund
Mission: "helps organizations incorporate organizing strategies"
Annual Revenues: 195025
IRS Status: 501(c)(3)
EIN IRS Number: 45-2288010
Key Leader(s): Mark Fleischman
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Organizing platform

🔴4. Name: ActUp New York Inc.
Mission: ACT UP NY, the "AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power," a "diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis."
Annual Revenues: $36,411
IRS Status: not yet found
Headquarters: New York
EIN IRS Number: 13-3501884
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations

🔴5. Name: Climate Defenders
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: Program of the New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc., 501(c)(3)
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC protests

🔴6. Name: Climate Defenders Action Fund
Mission: Dedicated to "dismantle the fossil fuel industry"
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: San Diego
EIN IRS Number: 82-3232098
Key Leader(s): Cecilia Aguillon, Tara Kelly Hammond, Christine James, Lester Machado, David Neison
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC

🔴7. Name: Democratic Party local and state chapters
Annual Revenues: Tallying for each chapter
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Local presence in coordinated events

🔴8. Name: Democratic Socialists of America
Annual Revenues: $5,800,000
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: New York
EIN IRS Number: 13-3109557
Key Leader(s): Michael Grochowski
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: local protests

🔴9. Name: Disruption Project
Annual Revenues: 28480
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Philadelphia
EIN IRS Number: 85-1066939
Key Leader(s): Wende Marshall, Kathryn Sipp, Arielle Klagsbrun, Jeffrey Ordower
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: 218/306 protests

🔴10. Name: Housing Works Inc.
Mission: providing "assistance & expertise to homeless persons living with AIDS or HIV-related illnesses"
Annual Revenues: $51,762,615
IRS Status: 501(c)(3)
Headquarters: Brooklyn, N.Y.
EIN IRS Number: 13-3584089
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations

🔴11. Name: Indivisible Action
Annual Revenues: $9,922,930
IRS Status: Hybrid Political Action Committee
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 83-0529629
Key Leader(s): Elizabeth Ramey
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: National protests

🔴12. Name: Indivisible Project, organizing "Tesla Takedown" and "Hands Off" protests
Annual Revenues: 12565196
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 81-4944067
Key Leader(s): Leah Greenberg, Ezra Levin
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: 88/306; it has bragged it has organized 600 #HandsOff protests for April 5.

🔴13. Name: http://Mobilize.us, run by MobilizeAmerica Inc. - owned by EveryAction, the parent company of NGP VAN
Annual Revenues: not found yet
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: organizing platform

🔴14. Name: MoveOnorg Civic Action
Annual Revenues: $6,000,000
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Beaverton, Or.
EIN IRS Number: 06-1553389
Key Leader(s): Rahna Epting
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: #HandsOff "De-escalation Training"

🔴15. Name: Not Above the Law Coalition -- counted now as one but includes numerous groups
Members: As of 6/9/2023: American Oversight; Center for American Progress Action Fund; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); Common Cause; Congressional Integrity Project; Constitutional Accountability Center; The Criminalization of Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; Daily Kos; Defend Democracy Action Project; Defend the Vote Action Fund; DemCast USA; End Citizens United/Let America Vote; Fix Democracy First; Free Speech For People; Greenpeace USA; Indivisible; J Street; League of Conservation Voters; MoveOn; NextGen America; Our Revolution; People For the American Way; People Power United; Public Citizen; Public Wise; Secure Elections Network; Sierra Club; Stand Up America; Wisconsin Democracy Campaign; and The Workers Circle. SOURCE: press release
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: "Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump's power grab"

🔴16. Name: Planet Over Profit
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: Program of New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc.
EIN IRS Number: not yet found
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations

🔴17. Name: Public Citizen Foundation
Annual Revenues: $13,389,271
IRS Status: 501(c)(3)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 52-1263996
Key Leader(s): Mark Chavez, director, chair; Robert Weissman, president; Sid Wolfe, founder, senior fellow;
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations

🔴18. Name: Public Citizen Inc.
Annual Revenues: $5,728,329
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
EIN IRS Number: 23-7104508
Key Leader(s): JASON ADKINS, DIRECTOR, CHAIR; JOAN CLAYBROOK, DIRECTOR; ROBERT WEISSMAN, PRESIDENT
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: "Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump's power grab"

🔴19. Name: Rise and Resist Inc.
Annual Revenues: $21,999
IRS Status: 501(c)(4) (most recent filing 2017)
Headquarters: New York, N.Y.
EIN IRS Number: 82-2188628
Key Leader(s): Ivy Arce, Martin Joseph QUinn, Jamie Ray Bauer, Jay W. Walker, Stuart Waldman
Annual Revenues: $14,588
IRS Status: Fiscal program of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, 501(c)(3) - EIN No. 23-7379088
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: NYC demonstrations

🔴20. Name: Stand Up America Inc.
Mission: Established to "mobilize progressive Americans"
Annual Revenues: $9.867,658
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: Bethesda, Md.
EIN IRS Number: 32-0512546
Key Leader(s): Sean Eldridge, Christina Harvey, Joe Hines, Brett Edkins, Monica Garcia, Joi Rae, Brynna Quillin
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: "Hands Off! Mass Call for mobilizing against Trump's power grab"

🔴21. Name: Swing Left
Mission: Dedicated to "help Democrats win"
Annual Revenues: $16,523,456
IRS Status: Hybrid PAC/Super PAC
EIN IRS Number: FEC Committee ID: C00632133
Key Leader(s): Yasmin Radjy
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests

🔴22. Name: Tax Reformers LLC, running "http://TaxElon.us" "("an offshoot of http://TeslaTakedown.com")
Annual Revenues: not yet found
IRS Status: not yet found
Headquarters: Erie, Pa.
EIN IRS Number: not yet found
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: Protests

🔴23. Name: Third Act Initiative Inc.
Annual Revenues: $2,008,973
IRS Status: 501(c)(4)
Headquarters: New York
EIN IRS Number: 88-0776955
Key Leader(s): Bill McKibben, Vanessa Arcara, Akaya Windwood
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: DC, Virginia and Maryland protests

🔴24. Name: Troublemakers
Annual Revenues: not yet available
IRS Status: not yet available
Headquarters: Seattle
EIN IRS Number: not yet available
Key Leader(s): unknown
Involvement in Tesla Takedown: 224/306 protests

If you have any tips to add to this reporting, please write to me at asra@asranomani.com or DM me. Thank you.

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Fifth Column

With the West excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?

2025-01-03

[IsraelNationalNews] Europe and America gave many terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. The terrorists below have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

With Westerners excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?

July 14, 2016, Nice. During the fireworks festival, an Islamic terrorist kills 87 people, adults and children, under a truck that claimed to be carrying ice cream to the celebration of the French Revolution.

Four days later, the famous philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, disciple and friend of Jacques Derrida, publishes an article in Libération entitled "A truck launched". Despite having gone almost unnoticed, the article has lost none of its interest:

"A truck launched to run over children - among others - gives an unbearable image of nihilism. Nihilism itself names an end: that of our history and our civilization (...) It is not enough to declare war on it. We must attack ourselves, climb aboard and dismantle the mad trucks of our supposed progress, our fantasies of domination and our commercial obesity".

Clear? Terrorists and Westerners are the same, for our little masters of thought.

The terrorist who killed 15 people with a pickup truck in New Orleans on New Year’s Day (what better way to start the year than with another Islamic massacre?) was named Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty good portrait: a native Texan, an Army veteran (he also served in Afghanistan), a state university graduate, and a father of three, he had worked his way up the corporate ladder. Jabbar was an attentive neighbor who regularly asked a retiree if she needed anything and had given her a vacuum cleaner, washer, and dryer when he moved in. A model citizen. The New York Times reveals that he had converted to Islam.

This time, no taqiya, like there was in the case of the attacker who drove the car into the Christmas market in Magdeburg (by the way, the security of the German market was contracted to a company called "Mecca Security" !! some stories are so absurd that they can’t be invented).

But according to the official media, a "vehicle" killed 15 people in New Orleans.

Worse than the media is the legion of Western idiots who say that Islamic terrorism is a consequence of capitalism, colonialism, Israel, white and Jewish supremacy, in short, it is our fault, the West.

The Islamic terrorist who killed the British MP David Amess in the church is the son of a former advisor to the prime minister of Somalia.

Poverty and deprivation are not, as the fatuous John Kerry said, "the main cause of terrorism." Islam is.

Syed Rizwan Farook, a thirty-year-old Muslim of Pakistani origin, and his Saudi wife Tashfeen Malik, unloaded their semi-automatic rifles on the employees of a center for the disabled in California, killing 14 people during a Christmas party, the favorite season for massacres. Farook was an American citizen and worked as an inspector at the county health department. He earned seventy thousand dollars a year.

A graduate in engineering, his father a public works employee, his sister an elementary school teacher, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez killed four marines in a recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Michael Adebowale, the terrorist who slaughtered British soldier Lee Regby in the heart of London, had a bright future ahead of him. At school, his teachers had chosen him as a "model student".

Take Aafia Siddiqui, one of Al Qaeda’s Amazons, she is a neurologist who graduated from MIT and was sentenced to 86 years in prison.

And don't forget the psychiatrist who, shouting "Allahu Akbar", massacred his comrades at Fort Hood. Thirteen dead. Dr. Nidal Hassan.

The son of a wealthy banker who studied at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, University College London (in terms of academic results, it is the fourth university in the world) and lived in the chic heart of the English capital - that was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the attacker of the Christmas flight Amsterdam-Detroit. He lived on the fifth floor of a building on Mansfield Street. Neoclassical columns, an Art Nouveau door with a large basket of wrought iron roses, a few blocks from Oxford Street, where an apartment costs around two million euro.

And there is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the terrorists who killed Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal journalist beheaded because he was Jewish. Sheikh is the son of a wealthy carpet merchant and had graduated from the London School of Economics.

Aqsa Mahmood, one of the most high-profile women in ISIS, lived in Pollokshields, one of the rich neighborhoods of Glasgow. Her father is the first Pakistani cricketer in Scotland. All their children went to private school.

Omar Khan Sharif, who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv cafe, attended one of the UK’s most elite schools, Foremarke Hall in Repton, founded in 1557 and whose alumni included writers such as Roald Dahl, Christopher Isherwood and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Ramsey.

Yet, from the intellectual left to Pope Francis, it is repeated that these Islamic fanatics are being recruited from among the world’s oppressed, from those who, in the words of Karl Marx, have "only their chains to lose." No, my friends, they are religious fanatics intent on overthrowing the Western society that spawned them.

Faisal Shahzad, the terrorist behind the failed Times Square attack, had a $273,000 house and a father who is a high-ranking officer in the Pakistani army. And what about Abdelkarim Mejjati, the mastermind behind the Madrid massacres, who grew up in the exclusive Gauthier neighborhood of Casablanca to a very rich father and a mother who ran a chain of beauty salons?

Europe and America gave these terrorists everything: educational and job opportunities, entertainment and sexual freedom, salaries and social assistance and religious freedom. These terrorists have never seen a day of poverty in their lives.

The Paris terrorists rejected liberté, egalité and fraternité; the British jihadists rejected the sweet British multicultural lullabies; the Islamist who killed Theo van Gogh repudiated Dutch relativism and Palestinian Arab terrorists want to cleanse the earth of the Jewish presence.

But for those who think that the West deserves it in part and are now in the top echelons of politics, the media, and universities, it is much easier and more seductive to embrace the common belief that we are the guilty ones. Self-hatred, oikophobia, will end up killing us.

With Westerners like that, who needs Islamic terrorism?

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Home Front: WoT

Lloyd Austin revokes plea deal with 9/11 plotters

2024-08-03

[X] Responding to this story from two days ago.

Lloyd Austin got this one right.

Thank you. pic.twitter.com/ncMbLCe1vw
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) August 3, 2024

Courtesy of Skidmark:

Biden-Harris administration backtracks, revokes plea deal for 9/11 terrorists

[FoxNews] A stunning backtrack Friday on the plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks who were awaiting trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The deal that stirred national outrage and took the death penalty off of the table has been revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in a terse memo.

Secretary Austin III is now taking the lead on the case for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad,

…also in our archives as Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.

In his order, Austin relieved the official in charge of the military commission who had signed off on the original plea deals.

"Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024," the letter from the Secretary of Defense reads.

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Terror Networks

9/11 mastermind KSM and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantanamo Bay strike plea deals

2024-08-01

[NYPOST] The alleged criminal mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and two other Death Eaters being held on Guantánamo Bay will be spared the death penalty
under a deal with prosecutors, it was revealed Wednesday.

"The Convening Authority for Military Commissions has entered into pretrial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

...Mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistain in 2002 and interned at Guantanamo...
, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ’Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, three of the co-accused in the 9/11 case," an Office of Military Commissions (OMC) spokesperson confirmed.

The terror suspects will be spared the death penalty as part of the plea agreement, according to the OMC, which sent a letter to victims’ families Wednesday detailing some of the terms of the negotiations.

"In exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet," the letter obtained by The Post reads in part.

The news came as a gut-punch for families who have been holding out hope for justice for more than two decades.

"I am very disappointed. We waited patiently for a long time. I wanted the death penalty — the government has failed us," Daniel D’Allara, whose twin brother, John D’Allara, was one of 23 NYPD cops killed the day of the attacks, told The Post.

OMC said the specific terms and conditions of the pretrial agreements were not immediately available. The deals are set to be officially announced Thursday and the guilty plea hearings could take place as soon as next week, with sentencings likely to happen next summer, according to the letter and sources.

It was not immediately known where the men will be incarcerated following their pleas.

The defendants, including accused plotter Mohammed, stand accused of providing training, financial support and other assistance to the 19 Death Eaters who hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa. on Sept. 11, 2001.

The three accused who have accepted a plea deal — along with Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Ramzi Bin al Shibh — were initially jointly arraigned on June 5, 2008, then again on May 5, 2012, the Department of Defense said in a statement.

The OMC said it first entered into plea deal negotiations with the suspects’ defense counsel in March, 2022.

Victims’ families were outraged by the news that the death penalty was no longer on the table for the suspects, whose alleged actions killed nearly 3,000 in the worst terror attack on US soil in American history.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Meet the Harvard Students Supporting Hamas' Invasion of Israel

2023-10-11

[TOWNHALL] In the wake of Hamas’ brutal surprise attack against Israel, 34 Harvard student organizations recently signed a joint statement blaming Israel for the attack and expressing support for Palestine.

“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” the letter read.

“The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.”

To date, the Hamas invasion has killed over 900 Israeli citizens, and at least 11 American citizens. Reports of Hamas raping Israeli women, and videos of militants holding Israeli children in cages, have flooded social media. In one violent spectacle, Hamas militants paraded the naked, dead body of a German woman through the streets of Gaza in the back of a vehicle.

In some cases, Hamas terrorists even uploaded images or videos of their victims on the victims’ own social media accounts.

Despite such horrific brutality, the Harvard student groups offered Hamas their public support and blamed Israel for the murder and rape of its own citizens.

Townhall has identified the student leaders of several of those groups. Their names are listed below.

GRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS WHOSE GROUPS SUPPORT THE HAMAS INVASION

Harvard Muslim Law School Association

Hussain Awan ’25 (Co-President)

Hussain Awan is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past July, Awan worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, under Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.

Before that, Awan worked in Tunisia as a legal intern for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). IDEA is an “intergovernmental organization (IGO) with a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide.” IDEA also received $320,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation between 2016 and 2017.

Reema Doleh ’25 (Co-President)

Reema Doleh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Doleh worked as a legal intern for Legal Services NYC. Before that, she worked as a paralegal in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office from January 2022 to July 2022.

Ariq Hatibie ’24 (Executive Board Member)

Ariq Hatibie is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hatibie is currently the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

This past summer, Hatibie worked as a summer associate at White & Case LLP. The previous summer, Hatibie worked as a legal intern for TRIAL International, a Soros-funded legal group which claims to fight against “impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their quest for justice.”

Additionally, Hatibie works as a research assistant for Harvard Law Professor Salma Waheedi. In 2022, Waheedi signed a letter with Harvard faculty expressing “solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination.”

In the letter, Waheedi and her colleagues claim “Unwavering US financial, military, and political support has fueled an apartheid system that institutionalizes the domination and repression of Palestinians.”

Waheedi currently teaches a course on “Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel-Palestine.”

Saeed Ahmad ’24 (Executive Board Member)

Saeed Ahmad is third-year student at Harvard Law School. He currently works as a Research Assistant to Professor Intisar Rabb, in Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law.

This past summer, Ahmad worked as a Summer Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, under Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah. After graduation, Ahmad will work as an associate for the prestigious law firm Sidley Austin LLP, according to his LinkedIn.

Saeed is also a member of the Harvard South Asian Law Students Association, another student group that signed the statement supporting Hamas.

Hejir Rashidzadeh ’25 (Executive Board Member)

Hejir Rashidzadeh is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Rashidzadeh worked as an associate at Alston & Bird, a prestigious law firm known for its intellectual property work.

Hurya Ahmed ’25 (Vice President of Communications)

Hurya Ahmed is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. This past summer, Ahmed interned with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from June 2023 to August 2023.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEADERS WHOSE GROUPS SUPPORT THE HAMAS INVASION

African American Resistance Organization

Leadership

Kojo Acheampong ’26 (Co-Founder)
Kiersten B. Hash ’25 (Co-Founder)
Amari M. Butler ’25 (Co-Founder)
Clyve Lawrence ’25 (Co-Founder)
Prince A. Williams ’25 (Co-Founder)

Harvard Islamic Society

Leadership

Maryam Tourk ‘25 (Co-President)

Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo

Leadership

Hana Rehman '25 (Director)
Jasleen Kaur ’25 (Director)
Karina Mahida ‘25 (Director)

Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association

Leadership

Anusha Adhikari ’26 (Co-President)
Ishan Tiwari ‘25 (Co-President)
Samaga Pokharel ‘26 (Communications VP)
Kashish Bastola ’26 (Advocacy VP)
Aashish Palikhey ‘26 (Finance VP)

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Iraq

Israeli abducted in Iraq said to have initiated contact with her kidnappers

2023-07-17

[IsraelTimes] Elizabeth Tsurkov may have interviewed her Iraqi abductors in Baghdad for her research, Arab sources claim

The SE Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl got himself killed similarly by Al Qaeda in Karachi in 2002.

Four months after the abduction of Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in Iraq, new details emerged Sunday on the circumstances of her disappearance.

According to unnamed Arab sources quoted by Channel 12 news, Tsurkov initiated the meeting with her kidnappers as part of her doctoral research on Shiite movements in Iraq, focused on the movement of Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr.

Tsurkov has been missing since late March. Footage released by an Iraqi TV channel supposedly showed the moments before her abduction, as she was leaving the Ridha Alwan cafe in Baghdad’s Karada neighborhood, an area frequented by Westerners, in the company of a man.

Until now, it was not clear how the Shiite group accused of her abduction, the Kataeb Hezbollah militia — a distinct group from the Lebanese Hezbollah — had found out about the presence of an Israeli researcher in the country.

According to the report, it was Tsurkov herself who contacted a Shiite man named Ahmad Alawani, asking for a meeting with his cousin Muhammad Alawani, a bigwig in Kataeb Hezbollah.

During their second meeting with Tsurkov, the two men discovered that she was Israeli, and decided to kidnap her, according to the report. Following her abduction, attempts were apparently made to transfer her to Iran.

Tsurkov, a 36-year old Middle East analyst and a doctoral student at Princeton University, was said to have entered Iraq late last year on her Russian passport. She has been missing since March.

She was reportedly given personal warnings by Israeli officials about traveling to Iraq, in the months leading up to her abduction, following repeated her stays in the country.

The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it holds Iraq accountable for her safety and fate, and accused Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah of holding her, but the pro-Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
armed faction has implied it was not involved in her disappearance. Kataeb Hezbollah is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces, dozens of mostly Shiite militias that were integrated into Iraqi security forces in recent years.

Last week, Asharq al-Awsat, a London-based Arabic daily, reported that the kidnapping was carried out to pressure Israel to release an imprisoned Iranian operative.

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India-Pakistan

Centre designates Mushtaq Latram as 'terrorist' under UAPA

2022-04-15

[GREATERKASHMIR] Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar alias 'Mushtaq Latram' has been designated as a "terrorist" under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA, a move which enables the security agencies to attach his or associates' properties believed to be purchased from proceeds of crime.

With this, anyone staying in touch with him becomes an offender under the law, reported news agency PTI.

Zargar was one of the Death Eaters released in exchange for passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 in 1999 besides Maulana Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
, the chief of banned group Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Sheikh Omar, who killed American journalist Daniel Pearl who was working for The Wall Street Journal.

Zargar is the fourth individual to have been designated as a terrorist by the Centre in the last one week and the 35th individual to have been declared a designated terrorist by the government.

In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said, Zargar alias Latram, 52, belongs to Nowhatta in Srinagar and is the "founder and chief commander of terror group al-Umar-Mujahideen and had been affiliated with the Jammu-Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Liberation Front."

Zargar is currently based in Pakistain where he had gone in the late 1980s to receive arms training.

The home ministry said Zargar has been running an incessant campaign from Pakistain to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

He has been involved in various terror crimes, including murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, planning and execution of terrorist attacks and terror funding, it noted.

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Britain

UK ambassador evacuated after pro-Palestinian activists crash debate

2021-11-10

[JPost] Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely was evacuated from the London School of Economics after students and other pro-Palestinian activists prevented her from attending a debate, Kan News reported early Wednesday morning.

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Home Front: WoT

Guantanamo trial of 9/11 mastermind suspended amid COVID scare

2021-09-18

[IsraelTimes] Pretrial hearing in case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four others put on hold after infection of reporter; another person who was in courtroom also suspected of being infected.

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India-Pakistan

A call from Alipore jail to Karachi and the 9/11 link

2021-09-11

[OneIndia] Its been over two decades since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. The face of terror had changed and none had witnessed an attack deadlier than that.

While India had complained on several occasions about terror emanating from Pakistain, the US took it seriously only post the 9/11 attacks. The attacks in the United States that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Centre even had an Indian connection to it.

During the investigations on several occasions, an Indian link to the deadly attack had cropped up. Officials tell OneIndia that the main link was regarding the funding. The spotlight on the Indian link to the attack came back when an Aftab Ansari, who was part of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was brought back to India for his role in the abduction of a businessman and the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata.

Investigations show that Ansari was one of the persons who was in the know of the 9/11 plot and it was further alleged that he had contributed the money he had received as ransom following the abduction of the businessman.

The intelligence bureau had intercepted a call from the Alipore jail to Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
. The conversation recorded between Jawed Baluchi from Karachi and Ansari was relating to an abduction plot in India which was fortunately foiled by the police.

Roy Burman the vice chairman of Khadim shoes was kidnapped by a gang of five headed by Aftab Ansari. It was alleged that a part of the Rs 3.65 crore ransom that they had got was pumped into New York to help with the planning of the 9/11 attack. Ansari had to be deported from the UAE at the behest of the US after this link had come up.

Ansari after the abduction had stayed on in India for a year before he executed the American Centre bombing in 2002 at Kolkata. After this, he fled to the UAE before being deported to India.

Ansari however continued with his activities despite being lodged in jail. The 2014 intercept suggests that they were planning an abduction and also an attack in Delhi.

An officer with the intelligence bureau informed that the ransom amount that they were planning on demanding was around Rs 4 crore.

Inflation, donchaknow. Everything costs more a decade later.

While a part of the money was to be used for the Delhi strike, they had planned on moving some money to Pakistain.

According to a CIA dossier was partly funded by Ansari and his men. Some of the men who reported to Ansari had managed to slip out and they carried the funds to Pakistain which was used to float the Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
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-Great Cultural Revolution

Graduate gender studies student expressed desire to slash throats of cis women

2021-07-29

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A graduate gender studies student at the prestigious @LSEnews is revealed to have written an academic paper & speech expressing desire to slash throats of cis women who object to radical trans ideology. @M_ttThompson was even lauded by their professors. https://t.co/Ni0PH9FCRd
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2021

A paper presented by a student at the London School of Economics in the gender studies department calls for direct and sustained violence against women, specifically those who hold gender critical views. The paper was presented first in April 2021 and then again in June at a conference in the Department of Gender Studies, which is organized by doctoral students.

Author of the paper Matt A. Thompson read from his work.

The London School of Economics was founded by a bunch of Fabian Socialists including the execrable George Bernard Shaw. Graduates include George Soros, Pierre Trudeau, Monica Lewinsky, and Saif al-Islam Kadaffy, so this particularly vicious idiot fits perfectly.

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Africa Horn

Ex-Al-Shabaab deputy leader goes on hunger strike in Mogadishu

2021-07-05

[Garowe] Mukhtar Robow, the former al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
deputy leader entered his fourth day of hunger strike in Mogadishu on Sunday, in what could spark fresh debate over his continued stay under house arrest, over two years since his arrest at Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest.

A government source told Garowe Online that the former al-Shabaab leader refused to take food and that "he has now entered the fourth day". Robow was first arrested in December 2018 during final campaigns for Southwest presidential state elections.

Robow, the source noted, was decrying "his continued detention without justification by the federal government", adding that "authorities have remained silent over the latest matter which could trigger another round of protests in the country".

Further, the source said, "he has severally asked authorities to release him without success and believes that hunger strike is the last solution to his predicaments". Under international laws, a prisoner should have his or her rights safeguarded, including access to goods, water, and family.

Robow decamped from the al-Shabaab and was received by the government after he differed with Ahmed Omar [Abu Ubaidah], the current al-Shabaab leader over irreconcilable differences.

After that, he joined politics in his native Southwest, something which wasn't received well by authorities in Mogadishu since he was on the brink to become the leader of the Southwest state.

And to tame him, government troops and those from the Æthiopia National Defense Forces [ENDF] stormed his campaigns in the Southwest and arrested him, leading to chaos in the state. Over 11 people were killed in the deadly chaos.

Without pressing charges on him, the government has continued to hold him in a house controlled by the National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA], which is often accused of violation of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
, torture, deaths, and disappearance of critics.

Sources privy to his arrest insist that he was overwhelmed and subsequently arrested after it emerged that he was the clear favorite to win the Southwest presidency. Outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo was keen to control all states.

The use of Æthiopian troops raised eyebrows, with Somalia's opposition bigwigs accusing the AMISOM team of interfering with Somalia's internal affairs. In fact, the Æthiopian troops who arrested him are believed to be a non-Amisom contingent.

The use of or collaboration of foreign troops is not strange in Somalia. Recently, it was reported that thousands of young Somali troops are training in Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
and there is a possibility that they participated in the alleged Tigray genocide, which left thousands dead.

But despite these serious allegations, the government has fairly remained silent, leading to speculations from stakeholders. A committee appointed by Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble is also yet to table its findings over the matter.

A number of people have defected from al-Shabaab due to financial constraints, change of philosophy, or persuasion from the government. Defectors have usually repatriated the society and are given preferential treatment.

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