Thread by @JSchanzer

🧵Campus protest thread here.

I’ve received lots of calls & emails in recent days related to this testimony from 2016.



I testified again last year on the same topic



Both about a group called American Muslims for Palestine.docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA…
gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl…

If you don’t want to read the full testimonies, this piece by Bret Stephens when he was at the @WSJ.

Bottom line: AMP is populated by people who previously worked for Hamas charities that were shut down in America.

wsj.com/articles/the-a…

@WSJ AMP has been funding Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for years.

AMP spent $100k in 2014 on campus activity.

Here is a photo of SJP students with “Happy Gilmore”sized checks from AMP in 2016.

@WSJ AMP has a campus outreach coordinator. Here he is at Rutgers last year.

@WSJ But the AMP guy who created the concept is Hatem Bazian. He forged the first SJP at Berkeley. There are now 200+ SJP groups nationwide.

Here’s Bazian at SDSU and Berkeley amidst the current war.

@WSJ There are some questions I also have about Bazian’s involvement with Jewish Voices for Peace. He appears to control their social media account….

@WSJ But the guy who concerns me right now is Osama Abu Irshaid. He is AMP’s executive director. He has been on the campuses of Columbia and GW, literally driving the protests and the chants.

@WSJ Then we see him going live here on the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera network from the @GWtweets campus protests…

@WSJ @GWtweets Osama Abu Irshaid figured prominently on the Hamas military wing’s website in 2014 during the 51-day war with Israel. Why did they feature him?

@WSJ @GWtweets And then there is the strange matter of this tweet from convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad financier Sami Al-Arian, who boasted that his wife was at the @Columbia protests

@WSJ @GWtweets @Columbia Sami Al-Arian and Osama Abu Irshaid have a long association. Here’s a photo of them back in 2015, right before Al-Arian was deported to Turkey.

@WSJ @GWtweets @Columbia Al-Arian’s daughter used to work for AMP, doing media and communications work for the group.

@WSJ @GWtweets @Columbia Al-Arian and Abu Irshaid have been hanging out in Turkey in recent years under the auspices of Al-Arian’s new organization called CIGA. Hamas and former Hamas charity figures have attended

@WSJ @GWtweets @Columbia The whole Turkey thing is odd, primarily because Turkey is now a major Hamas headquarters. And here is Osama Abu Irshaid meeting with @RTErdogan

@WSJ @GWtweets @Columbia @RTErdogan Bottom line? I can’t connect all the dots. But I can say this. AMP is directly involved in the campus chaos. And AMP’s history concerns me. This visual sort of sums it up.

@WSJ @GWtweets @Columbia @RTErdogan I’ll end my thread here.

Suffice it to say, the campus chaos is not spontaneous. Nor is it organic.

This seems like something that universities should be aware of. Other authorities, too.

I’m around today for journalists looking to learn more. DMs open.