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Brooklyn: Molotov-throwing Muslim lawyer was intern for Soros-funded anti-Israel group

Jun 14, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Yet another illustration of the Leftist-Islamic alliance. Urooj Rahman herself succinctly stated the goal of this alliance: “This s–t won’t ever stop unless we f–kin’ take it all down.”

“Molotov-throwing Lawyer in Brooklyn Was Intern for Soros-funded Anti-Israel Group,” by Joshua Klein, Breitbart, June 12, 2020:

One of the two lawyers accused of trying to torch an NYPD cruiser during protests that engulfed Brooklyn over the weekend spent a summer in the West Bank as a fellow and intern with radical Palestinian activist organizations.

Two attorneys, Colinford Mattis, 32, and Urooj Rahman, 31, reportedly were caught attempting to distribute homemade molotov cocktail devices to protesters who were clashing with police near the 88th Precinct in Fort [sic].

“Rahman attempted to distribute Molotov cocktails to the witness and others so that those individuals could likewise use the incendiary devices in furtherance of more destruction and violence,” a witness was quoted as saying to authorities in a detention memo from federal prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York.

Rahman was captured in a photo obtained by the New York Daily News wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh on her face and holding a makeshift Molotov cocktail. The keffiyeh, a chequered black and white scarf, has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.

Rahman is a graduate from Fordham University law school. In 2014, she did a summer fellowship internship program at the Israel based Mada Al-Carmel’s Arab Center for Applied Social Research in a partnership program with Palestine Works.

The Mada Al-Carmel center is heavily financed by George Soros through his Open Society Foundations.

NGO Monitor lists some of the radical organization’s political advocacy. The center co-authored the “Haifa Declaration” which calls for a “change in the definition of the State of Israel from a Jewish state” and accuses Israel of “exploiting” the Holocaust “at the expense of the Palestinian people.”

The September 2011 edition of Mada al Carmel’s journal Jadal focused on “Boycotting Israel: Between Theory and Practice.”

As part of her Soros-backed fellowship at the Mada Al-Carmel center, Rahman spent a week with the radical Palestine Work organization.

“Each day includes presentations and workshops led by attorneys and human rights advocates, as well as field visits to human rights flashpoints, such as East Jerusalem, Hebron, the Jordan Valley,” the site states.

Rahman wrote an article for Fordham’s human rights newsletter upon her return to the U.S., describing attending a flashpoint anti-Israel protest against Israeli troops.

The article, titled, “Witnessing occupation, apartheid and resistance in Palestine/Israel” may be instructive in understanding her mindset and alleged criminal actions over the weekend.

She wrote (emphasis added):

I witnessed this oppression quite vividly on my initial visit to the West Bank. I was greeted by heavily armed Israel Defense Force soldiers (aka the Israeli Occupational Force) ushering people through Qalandia Checkpoint, one of the main points of entry into Ramallah in the West Bank from Jerusalem and a potent symbol of Israeli occupation. While taking part in one of the largest protests in the West Bank since the second intifadah this past July, I saw how peaceful protests at Qalandia (and other places) can turn into violent clashes when IDF soldiers provoke violence using tear gas, stun grenades, rubber-coated steel bullets and, often, live ammunition at civilians exercising their free speech. Over 40,000 strong, this protest was composed of youth, families, women, men, children and grandparents, all of whom marched together from the center of Ramallah to Qalandia checkpoint on the road to Jerusalem. What started out as a peaceful demonstration of resistance to the occupation and in solidarity with fellow Palestinians in Gaza—who were at this time facing aerial bombardment while under an occupational blockade with nowhere to escape—turned into an all-out clash. Young Palestinians were forced to resort to throwing rocks, their only form of self-defense, as IDF soldiers fired tear gas and skin-penetrating bullets into a peaceful crowd.” 

Rahman expressed similar sentiments about the U.S. In a 2015 article for the same newsletter, she claims “militarized over-policing goes hand-in-hand with the gentrification of neighborhoods in New York City and throughout the country.” Rahman argues that “the process of gentrification runs its course with the help of institutionalized racism,” aided by police targeting of black and brown communities to pave the way for proponents of gentrification….

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  1. James Lincoln says

    Jun 14, 2020 at 3:49 pm

    According to the feature article:

    “Rahman was captured in a photo obtained by the New York Daily News wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh… The keffiyeh, a chequered black and white scarf, has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.”

    Let me get this straight:

    So it’s okay to promote symbols of “palestinian” nationalism but it’s not okay for Western countries to promote symbols (flags, etc.,) displaying their own nationalism.

    For just one example, look at Angela Merkel’s disrespect for the German flag in the link below:

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2020 at 9:29 pm

      James Lincoln wrote:

      For just one example, look at Angela Merkel’s disrespect for the German flag
      ………………

      Appalling, James.

      Just as bad: Biden “taking a knee” just days ago:

      https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_1024x576&url=1rhXcV_0PCtH5HY00

  2. Paul Stein says

    Jun 14, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    Rahman, N of 1. She doesn’t make any sort of Leftist-Islamist alliance except with herself. Yes, there are unfortunate Palestinian, not Islamist, leanings from many on the Left due to their anti-Israel, anti-Semitism nature. But, their voice is all there is to it. The Left is for America, albeit a changed America, but they truly don’t care for Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2020 at 9:31 pm

      Paul, many Leftists do indeed support Islam–despite most of them understanding nothing at all about it.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 15, 2020 at 9:38 am

        Unfortunately, that is a true statement gravenimage.

        I am at a total loss as to how someone can support something that they know nothing about an issue – or their representative leaders.

        A few years ago, I was actually asked by a group of physician activists to join the “Women’s March” at the time when Linda Sarsour was co-head of the movement. I told them that I 100% supported the equality of women but I had a problem with some of the leaders of the movement. I didn’t go into extreme detail, but I think they passed me off as a “crank”.

        Groupthink? My “friends” support it? I really don’t know…

        Maybe Wellington can also weigh in…

    • Len says

      Jun 15, 2020 at 3:21 am

      The left is certainly not for America. How they want to change it IS un-American as can be. Aside from wanting socialism, they want to dismantle the Constitution, to do away with the 1st, 2nd, 14th and many more amendments.
      They also do embrace islam.
      How else could so many muslims win political positions, while openly speaking negatively about the US?
      They praise Ilhan Omar, Tlaib and Sarsour, 3 of the most anti-semitic public women.
      And, one can’t speak ill of islam, least they get banned from the major social media website’s. That’s leftist protecting, embracing and kowtowing to islam.

  3. Martin says

    Jun 14, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    OT video – NYC – Muslims Praying during Black Lives Matter Protest at Barclays Center, Brooklyn

    June 12 2020 – BROOKLYN, New York: About 100 people, mostly Muslim, showed up at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn today to protest violence against black women and specifically black Muslim women.

    They prayed on the Plaza outside of the Center, and spoke out about the lack of recognition that black Muslim women have gotten throughout the latest Black Lives Matter protests.

    The event was called Jummuah, kutubah, prayer, and protest, presented by black Muslim women and Muslim allies.


  4. gravenimage says

    Jun 14, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    Brooklyn: Molotov-throwing Muslim lawyer was intern for Soros-funded anti-Israel group
    ……………….

    Who can be surprised by this?

  5. maria says

    Jun 15, 2020 at 4:12 am

    soros is the worst person ever. He hates the Jews (his mother taught him to hate the Jews) and said that his most wonderful time of his life was when hitler occupied Hungary.

    He is not a Jew his mother converted to Christianity and his father was atheist

  6. infidel says

    Jun 15, 2020 at 5:25 am

    Expect this Rahman to be a feted Democrat in the future…Sure as hell

  7. OLD GUY says

    Jun 15, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    No surprise in finding Soros involved in this. He has to be one of the worst human beings alive. Its people like him that keep all this turmoil going around the world, it must be profitable for him and I’am sure he is the only one he gives a shit about. This stupid lawyer deserves prison time and deportation as a terrorist. If Soros is funding and backing these terrorist actions maybe he should be taken out.

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