Other speakers at the PACC conference include an author long associated with the PFLP, a US-designated international terrorist organization.
Washington, DC – April 2 – The Coalition for a Safer Web has identified numerous links between the host of a conference Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) will address tomorrow and Samidoun, a group sanctioned last year by the US and Canadian governments as fundraising operation for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated by the US since 1997 as a foreign terrorist organization.
Also scheduled to appear at the 7th annual Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) conference on Sunday, April 6, is Wisam Rafeedie, an author with a decades-long affiliation with the PFLP and who has repeatedly called for the destruction of the State of Israel. According to press reports, last May, Tlaib and Rafeedie both attended the People’s Conference for Palestine convention in Detroit. The Michigan Democrat’s attendance tomorrow is listed on the PACC’s website.
Since the October 7th Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel, which the PACC called “justified” in social media posts that day, the Clifton, New Jersey 501c3 charity has heavily promoted Samidoun online, in activist “toolkits,” at events, and in newsletters. In December of 2023, PACC held an in-person “teach-in” with Samidoun officials at their headquarters, a video of which remains available on the PACC’s YouTube account. PACC has also promoted pro-Palestinian protests and encampments on New York metro area college and university campuses and hosted training events for student activists.
The Coalition for a Safer Web, a Washington-based nonprofit nonpartisan foundation which monitors and works to counter online extremism and prevent its real-world consequences, has issued numerous reports on Samidoun’s activities and played a leading role urging the federal government to sanction the group and block its US assets.
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About Coalition for Safer Web: Based in Washington, DC, the Coalition for a Safer Web is a non-partisan non-profit foundation that exposes and counters online extremist activity and its funding.
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