Posted on 01/03/2017 5:02:30 AM PST by SJackson
Over the Christmas weekend, Chicago surpassed the 750-murder mark for 2016. But as blacks lay dying on the streets of Chicago’s South and West Sides, a Black Lives Matter offshoot is more interested in traveling overseas to learn “resistance” from terrorists.
The Dream Defenders bills itself as “an uprising of communities in struggle, shifting culture through transformational organizing.” But an investigation conducted by the Haym Salomon Center reveals the group’s embrace of anti-Semitism and collaboration with a State Department-designated terror group.
In August, Black Lives Matter singled out Israel for condemnation, declaring it an “apartheid” state engaged in “genocide.” These accusations angered Jewish leaders, many of whom had steadfastly supported the BLM cause. Nonetheless, despite what can only be described as a total lack of relevance to its own agenda, BLM did not back down.
Just like BLM, Dream Defenders proclaims solidarity with Palestinians. DD claims that the black community in America, together with Palestinians in the “occupied” territories of Israel, are all victims of state-sanctioned violence. As such, the two causes are related and should learn “resistance” from each other. After leaders from BLM and DD made their first trip to Palestinian territories in January 2015, BLM’s anti-Israel advocacy remained steady, mostly lashing out at the Jewish state at rallies and protests. DD stepped up their disdain for Israel, engaging in what the U.S. government defines as anti-Semitism.
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During the 2016 trip, the group was led around East Jerusalem by convicted terrorist and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Mahmoud Jedda. Jedda served 17 years in Israeli prison for planting bombs.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“...But is it possible Dream Defenders was set up to do exactly that? The list of its founders and advisory board includes name after name associated with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. DD co-founder Ahmad Abuznaid is the son of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ambassador and former Yasser Arafat advisor Dr. Nabil Abuznaid.
Strange bedfellows for group that began to protest Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting....”
On that note, that reminds me:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512151/posts
Obama’s Russia Problem: Obama’s Links to Soviet-era Spy Rings and Terrorist Networks
“On November 2, 1979, [Vernon] Jarrett’s Chicago Tribune column reported that Arab nations were planning to build closer ties to American blacks by financing black leaders and institutions. In the article, Jarrett quoted Black Panther cofounder Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (Donald Warden), who was now a lawyer for OPEC at his law firm of Holmes and Warden and was in contact with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Al-Mansour had presented OPEC with a proposal to provide $20 million a year for 10 years to aid 10,000 minority students annually. Civil rights leader Percy Sutton later said he was introduced to Obama by al-Mansour when al-Mansour wrote to him about Obama’s Harvard application, asking him to write a letter of recommendation for Obama. Obama and al-Mansour later denied Sutton’s story. But although Obama denied even knowing al-Mansour, al-Mansour claimed that he knew Obama when researcher Ken Timmerman contacted him. Timmerman was prompted to follow up on the story after Sutton’s 2009 death when one Kevin Wardally claimed to deny Sutton’s story on behalf of Sutton’s estate. Timmerman contacted Sutton’s son and daughter, who stated that no one in their family knew Wardally or had authorized him to speak on their father’s behalf.
In 1983, Jarrett and other CP members played an instrumental role in the election of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor. From 1983 to 1995, Jarrett worked at the Chicago Sun-Times. At the Sun-Times, Jarrett pushed Obama’s career from 1992 on, starting with coverage of Obama’s role in the election of Illinois Senator Carol Moseley-Braun. When Jarrett died in 2004, Chicago CP member wrote a tribute to him in the party’s official newspaper, mentioning his role in supporting the elections of Mayor Washington and Senator Obama.
Jarrett’s connections to Washington helped propel Valerie Jarrett to a role in Obama’s career. After marrying Jarrett’s son in 1983, Valerie entered Chicago politics in 1987, becoming Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development in Harold Washington’s administration. When Washington died after winning re-election that year and was replaced by Richard M. Daley, Jarrett became Daley’s chief of staff.
In 1991, Jarrett’s City Hall colleague Susan Sher introduced Jarrett to an associate from the law firm of Sidley & Austin, Michelle Robinson, the future Michelle Obama. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born in 1964 to Fraser C. Robinson III, a city water worker, and Marian Robinson, a secretary. She went to high school with Santita Jackson, the daughter of Jesse Jackson, who has a half-brother named Noah Robinson. Michelle Robinson was a frequent guest at the Jacksons’ home, Santita later recalled. Some sources have alleged that the marriage between Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama was arranged by Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of the church the couple attended, Trinity United Church of Christ. . .”
Are you the Judean Peoples Front?
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