Obama worked with terrorists Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existenceJERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.
The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Eretz Yisrael Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi’s wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund’s website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
Obama served on the Wood’s Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.
The $40,000 grant from Obama’s Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group’s reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN’s reported grants for that year.
The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago’s PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi immigrant community, describes itself as working to “empower Chicago-area Arab immigrants and Arab Americans.” It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education for illegal aliens.
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.
Historically, about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab countries warned they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. At the same time, over 800,000 Jews were expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel was founded.
Pro-PLO advocate held Obama fundraiser, describes Obama as ’sympathetic’
AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi was reportedly a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an “apartheid system in creation” and a destructive “racist” state.He has multiple times expressed support for PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi terror, calling suicide bombings response to “Israeli aggression.” He dedicated his 1986 book, “Under Siege,” to “those who gave their lives … in defense of the cause of Eretz Yisrael and independence of Lebanon.” Critics assailed the book as excusing PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi terrorism.Asked about Obama’s role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had “never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago.”
He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama.
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=559
Topic: Obama Paid By Pro-Terrorist Group (Read 976 times)