MPAC, the organization Al-Marayati had co-founded, had issued policy papers calling for the removal of Hamas and Hezbollah from the list of terror groups. At a meeting of the Palestine Committee of Hamas supporters in America, MPAC had been described as a “sympathetic” group that could be used as “an entry point to use them to pressure Congress and the decision-makers in America.” Was that what MPAC was doing here?
Normally, the FBI should have been interrogating MPAC, but instead, MPAC was interrogating it.
Salam al-Marayati filmed a video outside the Attorney General’s office in which he falsely claimed that the Hamas campus encampments had been “peaceful” and that the violence had come from the police and urged an investigation to “hold law enforcement accountable.” *Had Al-Marayati not filmed his video, we might never have known what the Biden administration was doing.
The meeting arranged by Zogby, Al-Marayati went even further off the rails, claiming that Muslims were under attack by Jewish “terrorists” allied with the “Proud Boys” and demanded that the FBI do something about them.
Al-Marayati’s only example of Jews fighting back against Hamas supporters occurred at UCLA when, after a Jewish female student had been knocked unconscious and multiple local Jews had been assaulted, with no response from the university, campus police, or the LAPD, some young Jewish men showed up and took on the terrorist encampment.
Nevertheless, according to the MPAC account, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he would pass the case to the FBI LA field office. This is troubling because a previous exclusive investigation found that the FBI LA office had treated assaults against Muslims and by Muslims against Jews very differently…[potentially a] civil rights violation.
Attorney General Garland and the DOJ leadership should be fighting Islamic terrorism. Instead, they’re meeting with groups like MPAC that have a history of defending Islamic terrorism. And not only are they meeting with them, they’re taking cues about investigations from them.
The DOJ and the FBI have gone from fighting Islamic terrorists to taking orders from them.
Even as the Biden administration promises that it is fighting antisemitism, it’s holding covert meetings with antisemites who demand that the FBI go after the Jews.
