Lamis Deek knows her Leftist supporters won’t have any problem with this.
“New York Rally’s Transparent Support for Terrorism,” by Ariel Behar, IPT News, April 21, 2022:
It should surprise no one that the New York chapter of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, used recent rioting on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as an opportunity to spew lies, support terrorism, and advocate for more violence against Israel.
“But we say unapologetically and boldly: Hamas are freedom fighters! PFLP are freedom Fighters! Islamic Jihad are freedom fighters! Fatah armed forces are freedom fighters! All of our people in Palestine are freedom fighters,” Lamis Deek, an attorney and Al-Awda’s New York representative exclaimed Saturday.
Al-Awda has a history of embracing terrorism and calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. It has co-sponsored rallies in which crowds chanted “Smash the settler Zionist state,” “We don’t want two states. We want ’48,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
The organization was an original member of the Global Palestinian Right of Return Coalition (GPRRC), the Jerusalem Post reported in 2019. The coalition is part of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which coordinates global activities aimed at isolating Israel economically and politically. A BNC branch includes representatives from terrorist groups, including Hamas, the PFLP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Saturday’s Al-Awda rally followed skirmishes between Palestinians and Israeli forces on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, home today to the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, but Muslims still have access to the mosque.
Israeli police entered the mosque last week after Palestinian militants reportedly gathered rocks and other projectiles to throw at Jewish worshipers. This violence comes amid a spate of recent terrorist attacks that left 14 Israelis dead.
The Al-Awda rally made a clear statement that the group and its supporters see such killing of civilians as “resistance” worth hailing. It aimed to “defend” Al Aqsa, Palestinian cities and “every inch of Palestine.”
“Since 2022, more than 30 Palestinians were martyred for simply being Palestinian & resisting for their liberation,” Al-Awda wrote in a Facebook post promoting its Brooklyn rally. “Just as Palestinians resist back home, we must show solidarity & resist with them.”
The ubiquitous “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chant – which envisions a Palestinian state covering all of Israel – was among other extremist chants and calls heard at the rally.
When Deek draws cheers for calling Hamas and Islamic Jihad “freedom fighters,” she and her audience embrace two organizations with written charters demanding Israel’s annihilation and creating a theocratic state in its place.
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad,” the Hamas charter says. “Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
Palestinian Islamic Jihad vows to create “a state of terror, instability and panic in the souls of Zionists, and especially the groups of settlers, and force them to leave their houses.”
On Saturday, Deek promised to create her own panic.
“We also know that in these neighborhoods, on our streets, and on our campuses are the agents of genocide, are the agents of apartheid,” she said. “And we come to say today and moving forward, we will go to them at every corner, in every university, in every place they exist. We will terminate the corridor of war crimes from New York to Palestine.”
Deek has a history of championing violence and terrorism.
She raised money for the pro-Hamas group Viva Palestina, saying that when Palestinians chose Hamas, “what they chose was one united Palestinian state on all of the 1948 territories from the north to the very south. That is what Palestinians chose. And in supporting Palestinian choice we are saying we support their right to liberation from violent colonialism.”…
Keith O says
Well, they are kinda right.
Remember, crime fighters fight crime.
Fire fighters fight fire, so it only seems fitting that Jihadi’s be called freedom fighters.
Fitna says
‘Freedom fighter’ my azz, they’re terrorists…if you don’t get that you don’t belong here.
somehistory says
Keith is saying that because they “fight freedom.” everything they do is to “fight freedom” and squash it wherever they can
Fitna says
certainly that could be a reading of it SH.
I’ve heard Muslims refer to Jihadists as ‘freedom fighters’ meaning they’re fighting against Democracy to bring the ‘freedom of Islam.’ Ofc they’re brainwashed idiots and don’t realize Islam is the exact opposite of freedom.
Keith clarified that he was being sarcastic and I responded to that below.
somehistory says
Fitna,
The reason I knew is because I have read many of his comments…and the use of those who fight fire…not in favor of fire, and crime fighters don’t favor crime…but the main reason I knew, was his many comments that I have read.
If someone is new or I have not read their comments, I can be suspicious too.
Keith O says
Fitna, Your sarcasm switch obviously wasn’t on when you read my comment!
Fitna says
Keith, we have had some Muslims posting comments supportive of Islamic terrorists here.
If you are being sarcastic it helps to add /sarc for example since it isn’t always obvious.
Also usually one would have to know a person to realize they’re being sarcastic.
gregbeetham says
Well I got it, they are fighting tooth and nail for the right to make us be free like them and think and behave like a zombie.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Keith and Somehistory!
Fitna says
Followers of JW have no trouble understanding what is really going on, but the fact is that Muslims speak in code that most people who are unfamiliar with Islam, would not understand.
So when they say they want ‘freedom’ or ‘liberation’ they really mean extermination of their target group. When they say they’re ‘oppressed’ they mean they have an enemy they want to destroy.
When they use the phrase ‘Islam forbids us from killing innocents’ it’s a lie, because there’s no such thing. Either you’re Muslim or an Infidel, if you’re the latter you’re not innocent and will be targeted.
Once people really crack that Islamic code, then they’ll understand they’re dealing with a very dangerous death cult that seeks to first wipe out Israel and then do the same to the rest of us.
Death cults belong in the history books. Until people figure it out, there will be more innocents being killed by this evil ideology.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“Once people really crack that Islamic code, then they’ll understand they’re dealing with a very dangerous death cult”
100% correct, and thanks for pointing that out.
To understand islam, one has to find trusted sources of information like Jihad Watch – and a few others.
And then one has to learn the “islamic vocabulary” along with the meanings that muslims attach to these words – often the direct opposite meaning that non-muslims assume.
somehistory says
Whatever happened to the laws on sedition? hamas is an enemy of the U.S.
“conduct or speech inciting….
And how do these idiots get a lawyer’s license? the tests must be really dumbed down in order for stupid idiots to pass….see the mozlum name and give an auto grade of passing.
gravenimage says
NYC: Pro-Palestinian group calls jihadis ‘freedom fighters,’ calls for total destruction of Israel
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Just disgusting. Muslims seem to be particularly targeting Jews in New York City–likely because NYC has a large Jewish population. Sickening.
somehistory says
there have been some attacks, reported here, g. and NYC has the cockroach, and a.o.c., so they must feel powerful and free to spew hate and threaten Israel.
Fitna says
Agreed Graven and SH.
Andrew Blackadder says
How strange it seems when I see silly wee lassies like this and her blind followers of a Fascist Religious Cult be allowed to scream such nonsense on the streets of the Big Apple and yet actual Americans are still stuck in Jail because they demonstrated at the Capital Building on Jan 6th.
A real double standard by the Old dude in the Oval Office today.
OLD GUY says
Calling jihadist freedom fighters is totally incorrect. There is no FREEDOM or DIVERSITY under islamic rule. The only freedom she is looking for is the freedom to kill those who reject her ideology. Death to JIHADIST is a better chant.