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Biden-Harris Admin Bankrolled Group Hosting Pro-Hamas Speakers At Upcoming Conference

A nonprofit focused on services to Middle Eastern immigrants that receives millions of taxpayer dollars has previously spoken positively about terrorist organizations and activities at the upcoming Arab Health Summit. We plan to invite several speakers who have spoken.

The Arab Community Economic and Social Services Center (ACCESS) received more than $20 million in grants from the Biden-Harris administration, federal records show. show. Nonprofit leaders are invited Mats Gilbert and Ghassan Abu Shitta are European doctors who have praised terrorists in the past, as well as the health director of the Hamas-affiliated United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and several anti-Israel activists. There is also. I will be speaking at an upcoming health event.

Gilbert, who will give the keynote speech, justified the 9/11 terrorist attacks by saying, “Oppressed peoples have a moral right to attack America with any weapon they can think of.” According to To the translation of the Norwegian interview in the Washington Free Beacon. The Free Beacon first reported on the health summit held by ACCESS. The Norwegian doctor also praised Hamas terrorists as “brave” after the October 7 attack that left around 1,200 people dead.

Akihiro Kiyota, UNRWA’s health director, will appear on a panel discussing “rebuilding Gaza’s public health infrastructure,” according to the ACCESS website. In August, the United Nations determined that nine UNRWA personnel “may have participated” in the October 7 terrorist attack. Meanwhile, Israel claims that more than 230 UNRWA employees are working with Palestinian extremist terrorist organizations. (Stream The Daily Caller’s documentary “Poisoned Ivies” here)

Records show the Biden-Harris administration has provided financial support to ACCESS for a variety of health initiatives. Administration too gave Access $172,000 for improvements to the Islamic Museum, which operates to provide elementary and kindergarten students with a “more balanced perspective on the cultural and racial diversity within our community.”

Abusitta also gave a keynote speech at an Arab health event, calling Hamas leader Ahmad Jalal a “hero” after he was killed by the IDF in 2018, according to the Free Beacon. He also attended the funeral of a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Daily Mail reported. reported.

The PFLP, a designated terrorist organization in the United States, hijacked planes, ordered suicide bombings, and fired rockets at civilians. According to to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Palestinian militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine carry a mock coffin wrapped in an Israeli flag in Rafah, a town in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo credit: SAID KHATIB/AFP, Getty Images)

Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib condemned A resolution is expected to be passed in the House of Representatives in November 2023 regarding the use of anti-Israel rhetoric such as the phrase “from the river to the sea.”

ACCESS has also received millions of dollars in funding since 2016 from the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations, including one $2 million grant to “Earn Arab American Voices from the Grassroots.” We support efforts to raise this level to the national level. According to To grant records.

According to the Free Beacon, psychiatrist Saba Jabr, who was invited by ACCESS to serve on the Arab American Mental Health Commission, previously said that “resistance to the occupation… It’s very important,” he said.

ACCESS and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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