“88 year-old Palestinian evicted from home in Jerusalem by Israel authorities to make room 4 Orthodox Jews.” --- not an American concern.
On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:27:48 AM UTC-5, Bear wrote: > > > NY Jets Player Speaks at Extreme Anti-Israel Conference > July 9, 2013 By Joe Kaufman <http://frontpagemag.com/author/joe-kaufman/> 10 > Comments<http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ny-jets-player-speaks-at-extreme-anti-israel-conference/#comments> > > > [image: Print This > Post]<http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ny-jets-player-speaks-at-extreme-anti-israel-conference/print/> > Print This > Post<http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ny-jets-player-speaks-at-extreme-anti-israel-conference/print/> > > > [image: > Oday-Aboushi-playercard]<http://frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Oday-Aboushi-playercard.jpg>Oday > > Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in > the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being > drafted by the New York Jets less than three months ago could get him sent > home early. His latest infraction was made as he gave a speech at a radical > Muslim conference sponsored by a group denying Israel’s right to exist and > associated with blatantly anti-Semitic and terrorist propaganda. > > When the New York Jets chose Offensive Lineman Oday Aboushi in the fifth > round of the 2013 NFL draft, they did so because of Aboushi’s athletic > skills. It seems, though, that his personal life was not a consideration, > at least not enough to stop the team from picking him. Problems in the NFL > usually revolve around drugs or alcohol abuse or players being bad > influences in the locker rooms. Aboushi’s problem is an unusual one for pro > sports. He’s a Muslim extremist. > > In January, Aboushi posted a photo to his personal Twitter page depicting > an old woman looking > down<https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfjk2xh6etk2gmx/Oday_Aboushi_old_woman_anti-semitic_photo.jpg>while > three clearly Orthodox Jews converse with one another in the > background. The photo, which is attributed to the anti-Israel publication > Middle East Monitor (MEM), was part of a large-scale smear campaign against > the Jewish state. The caption over Aboushi’s tweet reads, “88 year-old > Palestinian evicted from home in Jerusalem by Israel authorities to make > room 4 Orthodox Jews.” > > Aboushi might have gotten the idea to post the propaganda from his > relative, Fatina Abuzahrieh, who also grew up in and resides in New York > City. In November of last year, Abuzahrieh posted on her Facebook page a > shockingly anti-Semitic cartoon portraying an evil looking Orthodox > Jew<https://www.dropbox.com/s/uh8xwdu6mlmir56/Fatina_Abuzahrieh_Oday_Aboushi_anti-Jewish_cartoon.jpg>with > a huge smile on his face, wearing an Israeli flag across his chest, > and an old Palestinian woman looking down, crying, claiming to be “thrown > out” of her “own home.” > > From there, Aboushi’s conduct has continued to get more extreme. > > On April 19th, just one week prior to the draft, Aboushi praised a > conference sponsored by Islamic > Relief<https://www.dropbox.com/s/cy8f70fbsakwu1m/Oday_Aboushi_Islamic-Relief.jpg>(IR), > a charity that the Israeli government has labeled a front for Hamas > and that has been cited for both receiving and giving huge sums of money to > al-Qaeda related groups. > > Only weeks after the draft, Aboushi tweeted the following: “65th > anniversary of the > Nakba<https://www.dropbox.com/s/krl4qsnkde2h5kf/Nakba_Oday_Aboushi.jpg>and > palestinians all across the world are still thriving.” For persons > unaware of the term “Nakba,” the statement might seem innocuous, but for > those who care about Israel, the term is a very dangerous and provocative > one. The Nakba or Catastrophe is a derogatory reference to Israel’s May > 1948 founding as an independent Jewish state. It is used to spread enmity > against Israel and to fuel terrorist attacks from groups like Hamas and > Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). > > Lest anyone believe this was an honest misunderstanding on Aboushi’s part, > Aboushi solidified his extreme anti-Israelism late last month when he was a > featured speaker at a conference run by an organization which denies > Israel’s existence and associates with those involved in violence against > her citizens. > > According to the group sponsoring the event, “El-Bireh Palestine Society > was founded to perpetuate the strong ties among its members and to link > their communities around the world together and with their ancestral roots > in El-Bireh, Palestine.” One of the ways the group accomplishes this is by > holding annual conferences. > > Speaking at the Society’s August 1986 Fifth National > Convention<https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fzncde8kfafe4c/Fouad_Rafeedie_El-Bireh_Palestine_Society.jpg>held > in Dearborn, Michigan was Fouad Rafeedie. Two years later, the INS > charged Rafeedie with being a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for > the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist group. The PFLP is > currently named as such on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign > Terrorist Organizations. Also speaking was Osama Siblani, the publisher of > Arab American News (Sada al-Watan) and a public supporter of Hezbollah and > Hamas. > > The three-day El-Bireh Convention 2013 (“Connect 2013″) began this past > June 28thin Arlington, Virginia. Featured as a speaker at the event was > Oday Aboushi. Also participating in the conference was Nitham Hasan, the > President of the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF). ICOSF’s mosque > property is owned by the North American Islamic > Trust<https://www.dropbox.com/s/uexe7l7nr56fl38/ICOSF_NAIT_3.jpg>(NAIT), a > group named by the U.S. Justice Department as being a party to > the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. > > El-Bireh Palestine Society’s logo, found atop the organization’s website, > contains a graphic of the entire nation of Israel covered in a > Palestinian > flag<https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5owt1ef4tau7re/El-Bireh_Convention_Oday_Aboushi_speaker.jpg>– > a patent denial of Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist. Like Aboushi’s > Nakba, images such as this fuel terrorism and hate abroad and potentially > here at home as well. Worse still, the Facebook page for the > conference<https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq3igq4v4y8fxdj/El-Bireh_Convention_2013_Facebook_page.jpg>– > which is administered by the same individual who created the Society’s > website, Ashraf Abed – is accompanied by horrifically anti-Semitic, > anti-Christian and terrorist propaganda. > > On the same El-Bireh Facebook site as the conference, there are contained > different images of > Hitler<https://www.dropbox.com/s/wboi7hxbjraz7rr/Hitler_Deedat_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg>and > rabid anti-Christian cleric Ahmed Deedat, who authored the infamous > work *CRUCIFIXION OR CRUCI-FICTION?* There are terrorist memorials for > Hamas leader Abdel Aziz > al-Rantisi<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yctrkg8naes6m9t/Rantisi_Yassin_Arafat_Ayyash_PRC_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg>, > > PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and Hamas bomb maker > Yahya Ayyash. About Arafat and Yassin, the site states in Arabic, “The > martyr leader Yasser Arafat with the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. G-d have > mercy on them.” > > As well, there are a number of pictures of the imprisoned head of the > PFLP, Ahmad Saadat, and a photo glorifying members of the Popular > Resistance > Committees<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yctrkg8naes6m9t/Rantisi_Yassin_Arafat_Ayyash_PRC_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg>(PRC) > in the process of launching rockets into Israel. There is also a > photo of Oday Aboushi’s friend, Linda Sarsour, the Executive Director of > the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), and a picture of four > individuals stomping on an American > flag<https://www.dropbox.com/s/x693d6zu3khc3ib/American_Flag_Stomp_El-Bireh.jpg>, > > which they pulled down from atop a sign. > > Following the conference, Aboushi tweeted, “Al bireh convention was a > pleasure.<https://www.dropbox.com/s/95tt4ek7ozh854b/El-Bireh_Convention_Oday_Aboushi_tweet.jpg>Proud > Palestinians is always a good sight.” > > It is okay to be proud of one’s heritage. Few, if any, would disagree. But > what is not okay is when the heritage that you are praising instills hatred > and violence in its followers and threatens and brings terror to the lives > of others. It is apparent that that is exactly what the organization Oday > Aboushi spoke in front of believes. > > *What will the Jets do?* > > In a previous > article<http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/new-york-jets-draft-pick-tweets-against-israel/>, > > this author detailed the extremist ties and behavior of football player > Oday Aboushi, which resulted in Aboushi removing material from his > Facebook > site<https://www.dropbox.com/s/3sfwnltre1aiy19/Mohamed_Mabrouk_missing_fr_Oday_Aboushi_Likes.jpg>. > > Yet, to this day, the New York Jets have ignored the actions of their > Islamist draft pick, only to see his behavior get worse. So far, the team > has appeared to put Aboushi’s athletic ability over his ties to Muslim > fanaticism. This author, however, believes that the Jets have much more to > worry about than whether or not Aboushi can create holes in the opposing > team’s defense or if he can provide protection for the quarterback. > > Given the actions he continues to engage in and the dangerous persons and > groups he chooses to surround himself with, the Jets must change the game > plan they originally had when they took Oday Aboushi in the 2013 NFL Draft > and release this player. In the end, those individuals Aboushi truly wishes > to protect may very well be the ones we have to worry about the most. > > Click here to contact the NY > Jets<http://www.newyorkjets.com/footer/contact-us.html>to tell the team your > thoughts on this matter. Please be respectful in your > comments. > > *Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to > this report.* > > -- > *Bear > http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/GNUZ/ > * > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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