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On May 1, Christopher Scalia tweeted side-by-side photos of a masked protester standing over a banner reading Hind’s Hall and a masked terrorist striking the same pose on a balcony. Scalia  captioned the photos “Manhattan 2024 meets Munich 1972,” a perfectly legitimate parallel that could stand an update.

On September 5, 1972, at the Olympic Games in Munich, Palestinian terrorists of the Black September faction, disguised as athletes, forced their way into the quarters of the Israeli Olympic team. Weightlifter Yossef Romano, on crutches due to an injury, attempted to disarm a terrorist but was shot dead and castrated, a mutilation not revealed until 2015. The carnage continued and by the next day, the terrorists had killed eleven Israelis. Broadcaster Jim McKay told the world, “they’re all gone,” as though the murder victims had departed on a trip.

Mastermind of the massacre was Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar, a commander of Fatah military arm Al-Assifa, and member of the PLO’s executive committee. In 1973, Israeli commandos killed Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar and his son Yasser al-Najjar became a fugitive. In one account he came to the United States as a foreign student, but documentation of his arrival and presence in the USA is hard to find. When National Public Radio profiled him in 2003, Yasser al-Najjar was an official of the Palestinian Authority living in Gaza.

In 2012, a man named Ammar Campa-Najjar worked in the Obama administration, which never revealed that Ammar was the grandson of Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar, mastermind of the Munich massacre. That news emerged in a February, 2018, Haaretz report headlined “Grandson of Munich Massacre Terrorist Is Running for Congress.”  The candidate’s campaign materials said only that he was “the son of a Mexican American mother and a Middle Eastern immigrant father.” Campa-Najjar claims he was born in San Diego County but said he lived in Gaza from ages eight to 12.

Accepting his birth year of 1989, that would be from 1997 to 2002, when his father Yasser al-Najjar was an official of the Palestinian authority living in Gaza. He told NPR’s Linda Gradstein he had four children but revealed no names or birthplaces. Reporters covering the Ammar’s 2018 campaign accepted his claims with no demand for documentation. Proud father Yasser al-Najjar failed to turn up in the stories, and the candidate did not reveal his location.

Rolling Stone billed Campa Najjar as a “rockstar Democratic candidate (and not a secret Islamist infiltrator).” As the rockstar Democrat explained, in Gaza it was “a very Obamaesque, Dreams of Your Father situation and “I worked at the White House for a little bit.” The candidate was “half-Latino, half-Arab – and Christian.” That marked a change of sorts.

In a February 25, 2017 commentary in The Hill, Campa-Najjar revealed “I attended an Islamic school in San Diego as a child. The school was part of a mosque called Masjid Abu Baker, where hundreds of people prayed and maintained strong relations with local elected and law enforcement officials. I knew of three men at that mosque, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, who were issued visas. At the time they were faint figures of my childhood; now their actions haunt us all forever.” The former Gaza resident contended that “moderate Muslims, like my friend and former colleague Rumana Ahmed, can help protect American lives and restore the original glow that once graced the face of Islam.”

The Arab-Latino Democrat lost to Duncan Hunter in 2018 and Darrell Issa in 2020, but he wasn’t about to give up. In 2022 Campa-Najjar ran for mayor of Chula Vista and lost to Republican John McCann. In August of 2023, the three-time loser joined the U.S. Navy.

The rockstar Democrat claimed he first tried to join up at age 17, but as People’s Virginia Chamlee explained, “his mother refused to sign off on the decision, due to his father being away at the time.” In similar style, Ammar told Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times that “he’d always wanted to serve in the military, and even tried to enlist at 17 before his mother put a stop to it.” Neither journalist specified whether that was the “mom or stepmom” Ammar previously mentioned. And no comment on the Navy post from proud father Yasser Najjar, the Palestinian Authority official in Gaza who somehow migrated to the USA on a student visa.

In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, Islamic terrorists murdered 11 Israelis. On October 7, 2023, Hamas committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. On October 15, 2023 nearly a thousand pro-Hamas demonstrators gathered in San Diego, but if the newly minted naval officer showed up, he did not speak to reporters.

It has emerged that Campa-Najjar has been dating Rep. Sara Jacobs, granddaughter of billionaire Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs. With that kind of support, the rockstar Democrat is someone to watch. Munich in 1972 meets America in 2024 and beyond. Christopher Scalia is on to something, and as Trump says we’ll have to see what happens.