#hlf

In October 1993, in response to the Oslo Accords, a bunch of Muslim brotherhood and Hamas affiliates got together in Philadelphia to create a network of NGOs meant to gather financial and ideological support for Hamas in the United States.

We know about this because the FBI has tapes (read the (searchable) 383 page transcript here)

Now, Hamas was NOT a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization in the United States in 1993, which means that the tapes themselves are not evidence of a crime per se.

In 1997, Hamas became a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, so funneling money to them after that date is officially a crime (material support for terrorism).

So we have a whole group of NGOs we know were founded with the express purpose of funneling money to Hamas, or founded by people who attended the 1993 meeting for presumably the same purposes, but we don't have proof they've been engaging in that activity after 1997.

That's why it's a big deal that a Virginia judge has ruled that AMP (American Muslims for Palestine) has to turn over some of its financial records in a (mostly unrelated) civil case.

The “Jewish Bund” at Brandeis (they’ve been banned by the school but continue to operate on social media and unofficially):

First of all, the account you’re reblogging is called “Arabs of Conquest.”

Second of all, the HLF5 were convinced for purposefully founding and operating a sham charity whose purpose from its inception was to funnel as much money to Hamas, a designated terrorist group, as possible.

You can read the press release from the time of the conviction here:

An excerpt:

The government presented evidence at trial that, as the U.S. began to scrutinize individuals and entities in the U.S. who were raising funds for terrorist groups in the mid-1990s, the HLF intentionally hid its financial support for Hamas behind the guise of charitable donations. HLF and these five defendants provided approximately $12.4 million in support to Hamas and its goal of creating an Islamic Palestinian state by eliminating the State of Israel through violent jihad.

The government’s case included testimony that in the early 1990's, Hamas’ parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, planned to establish a network of organizations in the U.S. to spread a militant Islamist message and raise money for Hamas. The government’s case also included testimony about Hamas material found in zakat committees. The defendants sent HLF-raised funds to Hamas-controlled zakat committees and charitable societies in the West Bank and Gaza. Zakat is an Arabic word referring to the religious obligation to give alms.

Ashleigh Dalton meets Joseph Kavinsky. Twice. The second time is mostly on purpose.

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