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Palestinian “feminist” jihadist convicted of immigration fraud

Apr 27, 2017 11:37 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A Palestinian woman who perpetrated an infamous 1969 supermarket bombing in Jerusalem, and who later immigrated to the US, has been convicted in a plea deal of immigration fraud by a US federal court in Detroit and is expected to be deported to Jordan.

Odeh acted on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is ostensibly a Communist group but actually works to further jihadist goals. This degenerate jihadist was a key figure at the January 21st Women’s March, which claimed to represent female solidarity against Trump’s Presidential victory. It was followed up by a “Day Without a Woman” to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8th.

Odeh has joined with several other militants as co-authors of a manifesto for a new, more radical form of feminism. Odeh’s co-authors include Angela Davis, who supported the Black Panthers and was a former leader of the Communist Party USA, and Tithi Bhattacharya, a Maoist supporter. The manifesto heralded what its authors called an international “anti-capitalist” feminist movement that is “at once anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist and anti-neoliberal.

Odeh was also keynote speaker in early April at a summit of the Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions drives against Israel. She preached to this group that “they must stop the Zionists from their land grab.” Also joining Odeh at the Summit was her notorious Palestinian-American radical feminist pal and activist Linda Sarsour, who has family ties to Hamas, and who was also given a Champion of Change Award from Barack Obama during his presidency.

We hope that the date for the deportation of Rasmea Odeh — who served only a decade of her life sentence before getting an early release in a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — will be soon so that America can say good riddance to this Palestinian jihad terrorist, fake feminist and immigration crook.

“PALESTINIAN TERRORIST CONVICTED OF US IMMIGRATION FRAUD”, by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2017:

Palestinian woman who perpetrated an infamous 1969 supermarket bombing in Jerusalem, and who later immigrated to the US, has been convicted in a plea deal of immigration fraud by a US federal court in Detroit and is expected to be deported to Jordan.

The conviction was handed down late Tuesday, but no date has been set yet for deportation.

Israeli military court convicted the woman, Rasmea Odeh, of participating in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine bombing.

The terrorist attack killed two people – Hebrew University students and roommates Leon “Arie” Kanner, 21, from Netanya, and Edward Jaffe, 22, formerly of Cape Town, and living near Tel Aviv – at the SuperSol supermarket on Agron Street in Jerusalem.

Odeh was sentenced to a life term.

She served 10 years of that sentence before getting an early release in 1980, in a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the PFLP. She immigrated to the US in 1995, but lied to the US on her immigration form, omitting her Israeli murder conviction from answers about any criminal record.

Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan- Leitner, who represented Edward Jaffe’s brother Harold, and assisted the US Department of Justice with compiling evidence, responded to the conviction saying, “There was never any doubt that Rasmea Odeh was the same PFLP member who was convicted by the Israeli court for the supermarket bombing.”

“Despite her efforts to conceal her past, continuously lie about her identity and blur the reasons for falsifying her immigration application, her terrorist activities have caught up with her,” Darshan- Leitner continued.

She added, “It’s regrettable that she is merely being deported to Jordan and not serving more jail time, as this is a Palestinian terrorist with no respect for the rule of law… and [who] continues to pursue her own interests without any remorse or pause.”

In March, when Odeh agreed to the plea bargain, but before it had been made binding by court endorsement, Harold Jaffe told The Jerusalem Post that he was concerned that Odeh could renege on the deal.

“It’ll be done when it happens, when it’s done, it’s done,” he added.

Jaffe speculated that Odeh finally agreed to deportation once she faced the possibility of up to another 20 years in prison.

In February, the US Attorney’s Office in Michigan announced it would seek the Palestinian Authority’s permission to depose two Palestinian women who conspired with Odeh to perpetrate the 1969 supermarket bombing, in an effort to deport her and debunk her defense that she only confessed to the bombing after being tortured by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).

Absent the plea deal, Odeh’s retrial had been scheduled for May 16 in which the US would argue that she lied and covered up her terrorist past on a US immigration form, actions that justify her deportation.

In November 2014, a Detroit federal jury convicted Odeh of concealing her life imprisonment in Israel, and in March 2015 she was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison, have her US citizenship canceled and be deported to Jordan.

But in February 2016, a US appeals court threw out Odeh’s original US conviction, saying the trial court should have allowed expert testimony that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to Shin Bet torture in prison and did not know her statements to immigration officials were false…..

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  1. Tony says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 11:59 am

    Throw the fraud crook PLO agent out of the country.

    • StacyGirl says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 8:19 pm

      I heard she was to be deported to Jordan.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 5:22 pm

        Why would Jordan agree to take a PLO sympathizer?

        They have traditionally not been supporters of terrorism. Remember, they had a pilot burned alive in a cage by jihadis.

  2. Nigel GFF says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    …”The manifesto heralded what its authors called an international “anti-capitalist” feminist movement that is “at once anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist and anti-neoliberal.”…

    Sound like a gay bunch to me. Conversation across the dinner table must be riveting – not too sure about the ‘anti-heterosexist’ angle though.

    OT concerning BDS at British universities.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/27/charity-commission-investigates-universities-antisemitism-worries/

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:18 pm

    There should be a category of crime called ‘FEMINIST FRAUD’ or ‘IMITATING A FEMINIST’.

    That way, all FAKE FEMINISTS who actually support FGM, CHILD MARRIAGE, HONOR-KILLING, SECOND-CLASS STATUS FOR WOMEN, GENDER SEGREGATION, COMPULSORY PATRIARCHAL HEAD-SCARVES, SEPARATE, DISCRIMINATORY RULES (of all kinds) for WOMEN, etc., may be exposed, arrested, tried and convicted as FAKE FEMINISTS.

    It’s almost impossible to find any REAL FEMINISTS today… they should call them FORMER FEMINISTS or IMPOSTOR-FEMINISTS or CHARLATAN-FEMINISTS or PRETEND FEMINISTS or PSEUDO-FEMINISTS or FEIGNED FEMINISTS or DECOY FEMINISTS or SHAM FEMINISTS of BUNCO FEMINISTS.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 5:16 pm

      Faux feminists.

    • ShandyLover says

      Apr 30, 2017 at 7:12 pm

      I’m a woman, a feminist and a liberal. I hate islam with a passion.

      I’ve educated myself by reading the koran, so its not bigotry. Its absolute fear for the future of the West.

      And yes, Jeanette, I fear for the future of my private parts if the muzzies ever came to power.

  4. Yohanan says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 12:55 pm

    Wiki has this on her release in 1980 by Israel. It was similar but less inflated inbalance than in the 2011 Shalit prisoner exchange.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_prisoner_exchanges
    >During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (the Litani Operation) IDF soldier Avraham Amram was captured in a clash April 5, 1978, with Palestinian PLO forces at Rashidieh camp in South Lebanon. Four other Israeli soldiers were killed while two others managed to escape to Israeli held territory. He was exchanged March 14, 1979, for 76 convicted Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.<<

    • Yohanan says

      Apr 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm

      and shame on the so-called “Jewish Voice for Peace” for recently honoring the 1969 Jerusalem supermarket bomber as their keynote speaker. wiki notes Jewish criticism of their group at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Voice_for_Peace#Reception

      • mortimer says

        Apr 27, 2017 at 2:50 pm

        The problem is the Arab political and terrorist groups which stir up trouble, when, without them, there could be harmony, cooperation and mutual prosperity.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 5:13 pm

        That’s a lesson in how groups can call themselves anything they want to, but their name doesn’t necessarily tell us what they are.

        I could call myself the Queen of England, but that wouldn’t make it so!

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 5:14 pm

      Interesting indication of the value of a Muslim.

  5. ElderlyZionist says

    Apr 27, 2017 at 5:32 pm

    I read a different version of this story, that stated members of Odeh’s ‘extended family’ harbored her in Michigan when she illegally immigrated, and abetted her fraudulent application for United States citizenship. I hope they are also being thoroughly and comprehensively investigated, not only for immigration crimes and terrorist ties, but for financial and tax fraud, and any other irregularities.

    • Karen says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 9:21 am

      Yes, excellent point, they are accomplices after the fact. I too hope the full force of law is brought down on them.

      • Jeanette says

        Apr 28, 2017 at 5:11 pm

        If they helped her defraud the US, then they are complicit in that fraud – in fact, since several people are involved, this might even fall under a much more serious charge of conspiring to defraud the US.

  6. Dan King says

    Apr 28, 2017 at 8:22 am

    Once again a islamic muslim terrorist gets away free of any punishment.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 28, 2017 at 5:23 pm

      There was a time when many Americans would not have let that happen.

      But then they wouldn’t have let children in American schools be taught how wonderful primitive, savage Islam is, either.

  7. Jeanette says

    Apr 28, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    “She … lied to the US on her immigration form, omitting her Israeli murder conviction from answers about any criminal record.”

    I don’t believe that Israel doesn’t keep records of criminals.

    The US FAILED to check with the Israelis.

    AGAIN!

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