According to the Washington Free Beacon, anti-Israel activist and terrorist lawyer Huwaida Arraf has launched her campaign running for Congress as a Democrat in Michigan’s 10th District. Incumbent congresswoman, Rep. Lisa McClain (R.), told the Free Beacon that “Huwaida Arraf is a Bernie Sanders-style socialist who does not share the views of Michigan’s 10th Congressional District,” adding that “the last thing we need in Congress is another member of the Squad, and that’s exactly who she would align with if elected.”
Arraf has a long and proud history of coming to the aid of anti-Semitic terrorists, including those who have committed vicious acts of terrorism. She has repeatedly used her status as an American citizen to try to protect Palestinian terrorists. In the infamous 2010 Gaza flotilla, “which was aimed at forcing Israel to drop its blockade of goods to the terrorist-controlled Palestinian territory,” Arraf explained that her role was “to put herself forward as an American citizen to dissuade Israeli security from using force to block the ships,” which were loaded with weapons for Hamas, by repeatedly stating that she was aboard an “American flag vessel.”
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The Free Beacon notes that Arraf served on the legal team for Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh who planned a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 1969 that killed two and injured several others. Arraf helped Odeh fight to maintain her U.S. citizenship, which she received after being released in a prisoner exchange in 1980, but Odeh was deported in 2017. Arraf also aided “armed terrorists who sieged a historic church in Bethlehem and murdered at least one civilian” in 2002. Eager to “shield” the terrorists from the Israeli military, Arraf had her group of “activists” enter the church, and brought the “holed-up” terrorists food and water.
Arraf is the cofounder of the International Solidarity Movement, “which encourages anti-Israel activists to ‘direct action’ to force confrontations with Israeli forces.” According to the Free Beacon, Arraf justifies Palestinian terrorism, and wrote in a 2002 article, “Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics, both non-violent and violent.”
In her tweet launching her campaign, Arraf references her history of being “beaten, shot at, imprisoned, and hijacked at sea standing up to injustice on the global stage,” and adds that she is not afraid to fight. She might not be afraid, but with that introduction and her record, Americans should be.