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This past July, United States Democratic Representative from New York and member of the far left congressional group ‘The Squad,’ Jamaal Bowman, made a stop in Palm Beach, Florida to meet with members of the Muslim community. Attending the event were local leaders of CAIR, a group with significant ties to Hamas. One of the leaders was Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, someone who has previously attacked the Jewish religion. This was an inauspicious yet understandable meeting for Congressman Bowman, as he has been criticized for being an “anti-Semite” himself, for the hostile, one-sided stances he has taken against the state of Israel.
CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was established in June 1994, as a member of the US chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood’s now defunct Palestine Committee, under the guidance of then-global head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. The ‘seed money’ for CAIR came from another Palestine Committee member, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). Years later, CAIR would be named as a co-conspirator for the federal trials prosecuting HLF for the entity’s funding of millions of dollars for Hamas. CAIR had used its websites to actively raise money for HLF, including in the guise of donations for victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The Florida chapter of CAIR is one of the more prominent CAIR chapters, and its promotion of and embrace of Palestinian terror rivals that of its parent group. In July 2014, CAIR-Florida co-sponsored a rally in Downtown Miami, where rally goers repeatedly chanted, “We are Hamas” and “Let’s go Hamas.” In August 2020, CAIR-Florida held an event featuring the ex-ringleader of a Tampa-area Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) network, convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian, fraudulently referring to al-Arian as a “political prisoner.” CAIR-Florida has a close relationship with al-Arian’s convicted PIJ colleague, Hatem Fariz, organizing anti-Israel rallies with him.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz is the Media & Outreach Director of CAIR-Florida. Accompanying Ruiz to the Bowman meeting was CAIR attorney Omar Saleh. Ruiz is also a lawyer. For years, he has been legal advisor for the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), a group that was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for promoting a “venomous” anti-Semitic video featuring white supremacist icon David Duke. Ruiz founded AMANA’s Connecticut and Puerto Rico chapters. AMANA’s President, Sofian Zakkout, who Ruiz calls his “dear brother,” was thrown off two prominent anti-crime boards for his support of Hamas and Holocaust denial.
Ruiz has targeted Jews with bigotry, himself. In April 2010, just three months prior to the ADL’s condemnation of AMANA, he authored an article in Spanish vilifying the Jewish religion, titled Las fobias de mi vecino (translated “My neighbor’s phobias”). In it, Ruiz cites Justinas Pranaitis, a Lithuanian Catholic priest, who was infamous for advancing a blood libel claim against Jews and who was stripped of his priesthood. As well in the piece, Ruiz provides a link to the website talmudunmasked.com, which contains Pranaitis’s anti-Semitic conspiracies and is produced by those alleging Jews perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and are Satanic.
Also at the Bowman meeting was Junaid Akhter, Marketing & Public Relations Director of the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), an umbrella group for South Florida’s many radical Muslim institutions. One Federation member, Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen (MJAM), promotes material on its website calling Jews and Christians “enemies,” sanctioning domestic violence against women, glorifying female genital mutilation, and mandating death punishments for gays. Another member, Darul Uloom, has been a haven for high-profile al-Qaeda operatives and is run by an imam who was thrown off several county boards for promoting bigotry against gays.
Bowman showing up in Palm Beach to meet with such scandalous company as this makes sense, as he has built a reputation for himself of being incredibly anti-Israel to the point of being accused by his Congressional colleagues of being an anti-Semite, himself. Note: According to CAIR’s 2022 Midterm Election Congressional Scorecard 117th Congress (2021-2022), Bowman voted 100% with CAIR. Indeed, Bowman’s attempts – along with his ‘fellow travelers’ in ‘The Squad’ or ‘Jihad Squad’ as it has been called – to pass legislation and spread propaganda aimed at harming and demonizing the Jewish homeland are well documented.
Bowman opposed a House resolution rejecting claims that Israel is a racist state. He boycotted Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to a joint session of Congress. He withdrew his support for bipartisan legislation aimed at strengthening and expanding the Abraham Accords. He co-sponsored a resolution calling for the US to formally recognize the “Nakba,” the offensive term labeling the founding of Israel a “catastrophe,” while rejecting a resolution commemorating Israel’s 75th anniversary. And he co-signed a blatantly one-sided letter to President Biden and Secretary Blinken calling on the administration “to undertake a shift in U.S. policy” toward Israel.
In a letter signed by 13 New York rabbis, they write, “Congressman Bowman is no longer merely an accessory to anti-Israel rhetoric in Washington. He is now leading the effort to erode support for Israel on Capitol Hill and within the Democratic Party.”
Bowman’s alarming behavior and unhinged rhetoric have even drawn fire from many in his own party, who, along with pro-Israel factions, actively seek a viable candidate to run against him in the upcoming Democratic primary.
Captioned next to a photo from the Palm Beach meeting, in which Bowman is posing with the Florida CAIR officials and is arm-in-arm with CAIR’s Wilfredo Ruiz – the Representative and his supporters all flashing big smiles – Ruiz wrote, “Standing with this brave Congressman, Jamaal Bowman. Free Palestine.”
There is nothing brave about standing with the enemies of America and her ally, Israel. Jamaal Bowman’s embrace of CAIR, a Hamas-linked group, which aims to eliminate Israel and, in the past, stated its intention to replace the US Constitution with the Quran, attests to a dangerous conflict of interests which borders on treason.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
Why doesn’t someone bring suit against him and the rest of the squad for violating their oaths of office, falsely made because their words and actions show blatantly that they never intended to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic”.
Instead, they have used their office to represent and promote foreign interests hostile to America.
Why are they allowed to stay in office? They have highly publicized national and international platforms supported by media to spew lies and hatred and incite violence to undermine the integrity of the United States. Ideally, legal action should be brought by an entity representing the American people. Congress won’t do it. They rather get rid of a dress code than get rid of these dangerous traitors. Doing this is as important, or may be even more important at this point than the Hunter and Joe garbage.
There may be a difference between “Anti-Zionism” and antisemitism in theory, but in reality the area of overlap between them is at least 95%.
The Presbyterian Church USA is headquartered here in Louisville and is the mainstream Protestant demonination that is most hostile toward Israel and effectively hijacked by the Left politically. There was a prominent minister at their seminary who was obstreperous left wing and involved in so called “peace” movements- on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima he had himself outlined in chalk on the sidewalk for the benefit of TV cameras. Back in the early 1980s he conned the rabbi at a Conservative synagogue to let him speak and his virulent hostility toward Jews and Israel soon became apparent. When he shouted, “YOU PEOPLE need to wake up, or you’ll be sorry!”, beet faced red with rage, the rabbi finally told him, “This has gone on along enough”- he acted like a Red Guard during a “Struggle Session” or a “Facilitator” during “Diversity Training”.
Several years later during the First Intifada I spotted him at an Asian restaurant witha large Jewish clientele. I sat at a nearly table and could hear him raging about a report he had heard on NPR (National Palestine Radio). He was getting louder and more obnoxious until during a lull in the ambient noise in the restaurant he yelled, “I’ll tell you when it’ll stop, it’ll stop when someone kills a Jewish child!” At that point, you could have hard a pin drop in the restaurant.
If I were a betting man I’d bet Jamaal Bowman has said things just as inflammatory and antisemitic, especially when he THINKS he’s speaking “entre nous”.
The question is, will the DNC congressional campaign fund give campaign funds to him or his hoped for primary opponent. You can bet a whole lot it will be Bowman.
He replaced Elliot Engel, a staunch supporter of Israel. Engel was complacent while Bowman had a large student brigade talking to people on the street.
He beat moderates in the primary even playing the race card. He ran against an independent on the Republican ticket, an strong supporter of Israel and daughter of survivors of Nazi occupation. But she was too polite. I gave her Bowman’s speech on reducing police by 95% but she didn’t use it.
Muslim fascists hanging out together.
You know what they say about Birds of a Feather but even Vultures would avoid these lowlife creatures who crawl out from under a rock
The former US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Please stay out of FL. You are a disgrace to USA
These brazen black moose limbs like Bowman now feel empowered to lock step with groups like CAIR. Where are the STOP the HATE protestors from the left….guess those signs are in the attics of the Jane Fonda’s of the world….with the open borders and 40 million unknown illegals inside America, we now need DJT more than ever . Is Calypso Louie Farrakhan still spewing his racist hate as well?
Democrat hate-filled hypocrisy ………… on parade.
this is the outcome when you treat cancer like it is a common cold . without radical treatment cancer will inevitably kill the host . a reprobate mind no longer has the ability to think .
How strange it seems that Negroes in America wish to convert or be close friends with an islamic group while denigrating the European Slavery of Africans in the past without seemingly knowing that islamic slavery went on long before the Europeans got into that Trade of humans and the islamic Nations did such Trade for longer than the Europeans got into the Trade whereas it was Britain followed by the USA that ended such slave trading however that wonderful peaceful tolerant Nation of Saudi Arabia also ended slavery way back in 1970…. 1970… NOT a typo.
In other words the Negroes in America today should be thankful their forefathers were set free and learn that mulsims call them raisin heads as their muhamad dude, may piss be upon him, called them centuries ago
If America banned the KKK as a hateful violent gang then why not ban the islamic gang for their hateful violence and language.
Good luck in the upside down, paganistic, hate filled world you have created for yourselves.
Can someone explain what that blatant hand signal is/means that he’s using in this picture? I see entertainers and other politicians using it so I’m wondering.