Home Oversight Committee calls for group behind anti-Israel pupil encampments reveal funding for ‘pro-Hamas propaganda’

WASHINGTON – Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded Tuesday that the chief of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) flip over any info associated to “the funding of pro-Hamas propaganda and unlawful encampments” at universities throughout the nation.

In his letter, Comer (R-Ky.) requested AMP Government Director Osama Abuirshaid to offer all “paperwork and communications” with and associated to an related group, Nationwide College students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which Comer stated “claims to ‘assist over 200 Palestine solidarity organizations on faculty campuses throughout’” North America.

Comer stated the data was wanted to “inform laws to make sure that federal businesses are in a position to adequately stop cash laundering and terrorist financing” and to find out if Congress ought to replace “statutory reporting necessities on monetary establishments associated to cash laundering and terrorist financing.”

On Might 29, the panel despatched an preliminary letter requesting AMP flip over paperwork associated to the funding of and communications with the coed group, in addition to something relating to Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 terrorist assault in opposition to Israel, in addition to “all paperwork and communications, no matter subject, created on or despatched between Oct. 6 (and) Oct. 8, 2023.”

“The committee is especially involved that organizations promulgating pro-Hamas propaganda and fascinating in unlawful actions at establishments of upper schooling may be receiving funding or different assist from international or home sources which assist the goals of Hamas or different international terrorist organizations,” Comer wrote.

That letter famous that SJP-supported protests have included the harassment of Jewish college students, calls for that universities divest from Israel and solutions that the Jewish state doesn’t have a proper to exist and ought to be eradicated.

AMP rejected that letter on June 11, in response to Comer, with its authorized counsel arguing the group “is neither the ‘guardian’ nor ‘founder’ of Nationwide SJP, nor does it bear any company relationship to that entity.”

However Comer in his Tuesday letter famous that “substantial proof signifies a direct relationship” between the 2 teams – and surmised the rejection may very well need to do with pending authorized motion through which households of the victims of the Oct. 7 assault allege each the AMP and SJP are propaganda fronts recruiting “uninformed, misguided and impressionable faculty college students to function foot troopers for Hamas.”

“Maybe you imagine it is a crucial plan of action as a result of such an admission might negatively influence AMP’s authorized technique in responding to a lawsuit filed within the Japanese District of Virginia,” he wrote within the most up-to-date letter.

“To keep away from any additional delay and alleviate any confusion in your half, please be suggested that I’m writing to you instantly as the chief director of AMP and request yours and AMP’s immediate and voluntary compliance,” he added.

Whereas the letters thus far have requested for voluntary compliance, Comer in his Tuesday letter threatened to make use of his committee’s subpoena energy to drive AMP to provide the paperwork and communications.

“… If AMP continues to fail to provide the requested paperwork, I’ll contemplate different measures, together with using obligatory course of, to achieve compliance and procure this materials,” he wrote.

AMP didn’t instantly reply to The Publish’s request for remark.