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The “Palestine Chronicle” Editor, Ramzy Baroud, is “Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow” at CIGA (Center for Islam and Global Affairs) in Istanbul Turkey; CIGA Director is Sami A. Al-Arian; Al-Arian Previously Jailed and Deported from US for Working With and For Palestine Islamic Jihad; Al-Arian Wife at Columbia University Encampment; Contributor to “The Palestine Chronicle” Held 3 Israeli Hostages in his Family Home in Nuseirat Gaza

Currently, Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is an ally of Hamas. Both participated in the October 7th atrocities and kidnappings.

As reported regarding the deportation proceedings for Al-Arian’s brother-in-law:
“The PIJ is on the Secretary of State’s list of terrorist organizations. The group is committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and to undermining any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. The PIJ has taken responsibility for suicide bombings in the West Bank, Israel, and other parts of the Middle East that have killed Israeli soldiers, civilians, and an American student “ https://web.archive.org/web/20151009133638/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/257/1262/625362/

It appears that Islamic Jihad broke off from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt ca 1979 and the members that were deported to Gaza in 1981 were called the Palestine Islamic Jihad and those remaining in Egypt itself were Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Egyptian President Sadat was assassinated in 1981, which is the year that many places, including Wikipedia, gives as the founding date of Palestine Islamic Jihad (i.e Islamic Jihad Palestine). In 2001, the Egyptian branch merged into Al-Qaeda. 1979 is the year of the Iranian revolution.

The judge called Al-Arian a “leader of the PIJ”:
“In his guilty plea, Al-Arian admitted that, during the period of the late 1980’s and early to mid-1990’s, he and several of his co-conspirators were associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He further admitted that he performed various services for the PIJ in 1995 and thereafter, knowing that the PIJ had been designated as a Specially Designated Terrorist and that the PIJ engaged in horrific and deadly acts of violence. Such services included filing for immigration benefits for individuals associated with the PIJ, hiding the identities of individuals associated with the PIJ, and providing assistance for an individual associated with the PIJ in a U.S. court proceeding.

At sentencing today, Judge Moody called Al-Arian a “master manipulator” and a “leader of the PIJ.” https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crm_260.html Did he help Baroud immigrate to the USA?

“Freelance journalist” and Gaza (Hamas-led) Ministry of Labor spokesman Abdallah Al-Jamal was a terrorist operative holding three Israeli hostages in his family home in Nuseirat Gaza. Abdallah Aljamal continued to act as a “reporter”, at least for the Washington State (US) based “Palestine Chronicle”, as recently as June 7, 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20240610070353/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/abdallah-aljamal/ He also is listed as a reporter and photo journalist for Al Jazeera and one article in English from 2019 is listed, as the second author. The first author is Ramzy Baroud of the Palestine Chronicle, who previously worked for Al Jazeera. https://web.archive.org/web/20240121041443/https://www.aljazeera.com/author/abdallah_aljamal_190122103235277 There may be additional articles or photos in the Arabic version. As of 2022, he was media spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Labor. https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/freelance-journalist-and-hamas-spokesman-abdallah-al-jamal-was-hamas-terrorist-operative-keeping-three-israeli-hostages-in-his-family-home-in-nuseirat-gaza/

“Aljamal’s relationship with the Palestine Chronicle was that of a freelance contributor. He was neither a staff writer nor a contractor… Abdallah’s daily reports were originally written and published in Arabic. The Palestine Chronicle translated and republished a selected number of these reports throughout the war.” https://web.archive.org/web/20240609200539/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/abdallah-aljamal-1987-2024-well-known-journalist-murdered-in-gaza/ Written by “Palestine Chronicle” “Staff” which probably means Ramzy Baroud. Ramzy Baroud appears to be the one born in 1972. He seems to have a son with the same middle name who is 24 years old.

“Jewish group calls on DOJ, FBI to investigate local news outlet for supporting Hamas” By Mario Lotmore , Lynnwood Times, June 10, 2024 “The National Jewish Advocacy Center represented by Holtzman Vogel Law Firm, has submitted an official request to both the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to launch an investigation into the leadership of local news outlet, The Palestine Chronicle, for “providing material support” to Hamas that was designated an Islamic militant Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department on October 8, 1997….”https://web.archive.org/web/20240611093848/https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2024/06/10/palestine-chronicle/ Hamas appears to be the tip of the iceberg.

Currently Ramzy Baroud “is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Istanbul Zaim University (IZU).”https://web.archive.org/web/20240601235713/https://ramzybaroud.net/about/

“Sami A. Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and Public Affairs Professor at Istanbul Sabahittin Zaim University”. https://web.archive.org/web/20240611091600/https://www.izu.edu.tr/en/ciga/about-us/director%27s-message Couldn’t help but recognize the smugness of his expression!

It’s apparently Sami Al-Arian’s wife, Nahla, who was at Columbia, though since Muslims allow polygyny, he may have other wives. Her brother is Mazen Al-Najjar (see below). Read: “Columbia ‘rot’ on display as deported terrorist professor praises wife joining mob: ‘Very determined” Story by Michael Ruiz https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/columbia-rot-on-display-as-deported-terrorist-professor-praises-wife-joining-mob-very-determined/ar-AA1o1eyZ

Istanbul Zaim University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Sabahattin_Zaim_University
Includes Department of “Islamophobia”! https://web.archive.org/web/20240611080613/https://www.izu.edu.tr/en/ciga/about-us/vision-and-mission Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_University_of_Sarajevo

The 501(c)3 tax exempt organization which fronts the “Palestine Chronicle” is “People Media Project”, which exists since Sept. 2012: “Did Gazan who held Israeli hostages work for Al Jazeera and US-based charity Abdallah Aljamal, who worked for the Palestine Chronicle, a pro-Hamas outlet led by ex-Al-Jazeera official Ramzi Baroud, was later confirmed by the IDF to be a Hamas activist”. By OHAD MERLIN JUNE 9, 2024 13:35 Updated: JUNE 9, 2024 20:11 https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-805525

From 2012-16 and 2019 Baroud is listed as the principal. For 2018 and 2020-2023 John Harvey is listed as the principal. Baroud is the founder, journalist and editor of The Palestine Chronicle: https://web.archive.org/web/20240610071512 See page bottom regarding founder and CIGA: https://web.archive.org/web/20240527140723/https://ramzybaroud.net/
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Discusses the Islamic Jihad and relationships between the groups: “The Islamic Jihad: The Imperative of Holy War” Dr. Boaz Ganor February 15, 1993 https://jcpa.org/article/the-islamic-jihad-the-imperative-of-holy-war/

Islamic Jihad as reported in 1984: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP05-01507R000100050027-1.pdf

They were in Egypt, so it seems most likely they were members of the Muslim Brother and Islamic Jihad, which were the original groups, and only after arriving in Gaza did they rebrand themselves. “Palestinian Islamic Jihad” by Alden Oreck “Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini, better known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was formed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalist Fathi Shaqaqi and other radical Palestinian students in Egypt who had split from the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip whom they deemed too moderate. The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran influenced the group’s founder, Shaqaqi, who believed the liberation of Palestine would unite the Arab and Muslim world into a single great Islamic state. Today, PIJ is committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel through a jihad (holy war).

The Egyptian government expelled the PIJ to the Gaza Strip after learning of their close relations with radical Egyptian students who assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981.

Still, PIJ members remained active in Egypt, attacking a tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 that killed 11 people, including nine Israelis. PIJ agents were arrested in Egypt in September 1991 while attempting to enter the country to conduct terrorism.

The PIJ began its terrorist campaign against Israel in the 1980s. In 1987, prior to the intifada, it carried out several terrorist attacks in the Gaza Strip.

In August 1988, the faction`s leaders, Shaqaqi and `Abd al-`Aziz `Odah, were expelled to Lebanon, where Shaqaqi reorganized the faction, maintaining close contacts with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards unit stationed in Lebanon and with Hizballah.

Although several other factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad were formed in the 1980s, the main faction remains the group founded by Shaqaqi.

After the 1993 Olso Peace Accords between Israeli and the Palestinians, Shaqaqi expanded the political connections of the organization to become a member of the new Syrian influenced Rejection Front….” Read the rest here: https://web.archive.org/web/20071208183833/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/PIJ.html Recall that Israel didn’t fully withdraw from Gaza until 2005 or 2006. Egypt occupied Gaza from ca 1948-1967.

It appears that it’s Islamic Jihad which broke off from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt ca 1979 and the members that were deported to Gaza in 1981 were called the Palestine Islamic Jihad and those remaining in Egypt itself were Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Egyptian President Sadat was assassinated in 1981, which is the year that many places, including Wikipedia, gives as the founding date of Palestine Islamic Jihad (i.e Islamic Jihad Palestine). In 2001, the Egyptian branch merged into Al-Qaeda. 1979 is the year of the Iranian revolution, which inspired them.
“PALESTINE ISLAMIC JIHAD (PIJ)
( AS OF FEBRUARY 2023 )
OVERVIEW
PALESTINE ISLAMIC JIHAD (PIJ)
The Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a Sunni Islamist militant group seeking to establish an Islamist Palestinian state that is committed to the destruction of Israel. It is the second-largest militant group in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, founded in 1979 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The group has drawn inspiration from the Iranian revolution and receives support from Iran, Syria, and Lebanese Hizballah. PIJ’s military wing, al-Quds Brigades, has been responsible for many attacks on Israeli targets since the 1990s. PIJ sometimes operates in coordination with HAMAS, although the groups have had a tense relationship because PIJ occasionally disagrees with HAMAS’s strategy for confronting Israel.
OPERATING AREAS

Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank; maintains a presence in Lebanon and Syria and offices in Tehran
MEMBERS

Most sources estimate 1,000 members
TACTICS AND TARGETS

PIJ primarily employs small-arms and mortar and rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip against Israeli targets in Israel and the West Bank. The group conducted suicide bombings from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. It also has man-portable air defense systems, mortars, armed unmanned aircraft systems, antitank guided missiles, and IEDs.
FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUP DESIGNATION

The US Department of State designated PIJ as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997 and designated PIJ’s Secretary General Ziyad al-Nakhalah as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2014.
KEY LEADERS
Ziyad al-Nakhalah
Secretary General of PIJ since 2018, leads PIJ’s leadership council
Muhammad al-Hindi
Deputy Secretary General of PIJ since 2018, member of the Political Bureau” https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pij_fto.html

Hamas: https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hamas_fto.html

“Sami Al-Arian Sentenced To 57 Months In Prison
 For Assisting Terrorist Group WASHINGTON—Sami Amin Al-Arian has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for conspiring to violate a federal law that prohibits making or receiving contributions of funds, goods or services to, or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a Specially Designated Terrorist, the Department of Justice announced today.

The 57-month prison sentence and three years of supervised release were imposed at a hearing today in the Middle District of Florida before U.S. District Court Judge James Moody. The Court also entered a stipulated order of removal, whereby Al-Arian will be deported from the United States upon conclusion of service of his term of imprisonment.

Al-Arian was arrested in Tampa, Fla., in February 2003 on a 17-count indictment, and has been in custody since his arrest. Trial commenced before Judge Moody on June 6, 2005 and concluded on Nov. 14, 2005. The jury failed to reach a verdict against Al-Arian on nine counts and acquitted him of eight counts. On April 14, 2006, Al-Arian pleaded guilty to Count 4 of the superseding indictment. In exchange for his guilty plea, the government agreed to drop the remaining counts against him.

In his guilty plea, Al-Arian admitted that, during the period of the late 1980’s and early to mid-1990’s, he and several of his co-conspirators were associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He further admitted that he performed various services for the PIJ in 1995 and thereafter, knowing that the PIJ had been designated as a Specially Designated Terrorist and that the PIJ engaged in horrific and deadly acts of violence. Such services included filing for immigration benefits for individuals associated with the PIJ, hiding the identities of individuals associated with the PIJ, and providing assistance for an individual associated with the PIJ in a U.S. court proceeding. At sentencing today, Judge Moody called Al-Arian a “master manipulator” and a “leader of the PIJ.”

This case was prosecuted by Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Zitek and Assistant U.S. Attorney Walter Furr of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, and Trial Attorneys Cherie Krigsman and Alexis Collins of the Counterterrorism Section of the Criminal Division. The investigation was conducted by a task force led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service and state and local law enforcement officials, among others.
### 06-260” https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crm_260.html

Mazen al Najjar is the brother-in-law of Sami Al-Arian:
“Fedaa al Najjar, Mazen al Najjar, Petitioners, v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Us Department of Justice, et al., Respondents, 257 F.3d 1262 (11th Cir. 2001) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit – 257 F.3d 1262 (11th Cir. 2001) July 18, 2001
Excerpts: “Mazen and Fedaa Al Najjar, a husband and wife in consolidated deportation proceedings, appeal decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) upholding an immigration judge’s (“IJ’s”) order of deportation which denied their petitions for asylum, withholding of removal, and suspension of deportation under sections 208(a), 243(h) and 244(a) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(a), 1253(h) and 1252(a) (1996). Because we find the BIA’s decisions to be supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole, we affirm and dismiss their petitions.…. the INS produced various media accounts, documents seized from WISE’s offices, and testimony of special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”) and the INS. This evidence, primarily offered by the Service, purported to show an association between Mazen and individuals supporting terrorism in the Middle East. The INS argued that this terrorist evidence was offered to demonstrate that the Al Najjars were not worthy of any discretionary relief.

Much of the terrorist evidence offered to the IJ pertained to Mazen’s and WISE’s involvement with Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, a former adjunct professor at USF and an official of WISE, who left the United States in June of 1995. On October 31, 1995, at the funeral of assassinated Palestinian Islamic Jihad (“PIJ”) founder and leader Fathi Shikaki, Shallah was allegedly proclaiming himself as the new leader of the PIJ. During this speech, Shallah allegedly threatened to “eradicate” Israel, vowed to avenge Shikaki’s assassination at the hands of Israeli operatives, and “applauded the assassination . . . of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel.” Before the IJ, Mazen’s attorney stipulated that Shallah had been reported to be the new leader of the PIJ.

The PIJ is on the Secretary of State’s list of terrorist organizations. The group is committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and to undermining any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. The PIJ has taken responsibility for suicide bombings in the West Bank, Israel, and other parts of the Middle East that have killed Israeli soldiers, civilians, and an American student. In addition to the alleged association between WISE, the PIJ, and Shallah, many record documents purported to show a relationship between other militant organizations and WISE, as well as a Tampa-based charitable organization, the Islamic Concern Project (“ICP”), which was founded by Mazen’s brother-in-law Sami Al Arian. To this end, FBI and INS agents testified before the IJ that WISE and ICP were used as fronts to raise money for the PIJ and other militant Islamic-Palestinian groups such as the Hamas and the Intifada.

On May 13, 1997, the IJ issued separate decisions in Fedaa’s and Mazen’s cases, denying all forms of relief, including asylum, suspension of deportation, and withholding of removal. The IJ designated the UAE as the appropriate country of deportation for Mazen, and Saudi Arabia as the appropriate country of deportation for Fedaa. The Al Najjars immediately appealed both decisions to the BIA.

On May 19, 1997, days after the IJ issued its decisions in the Al Najjars’ deportation proceedings, Special Agents with the FBI and INS arrested Mazen at his home based upon classified information that Mazen was connected with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. On the basis of this secret evidence, the INS held Mazen without bond on the ground that he posed a threat to national security.” https://web.archive.org/web/20151009133638/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/257/1262/625362/

Regarding the recent “Gaza solidarity” protests, when Sami Al-Arian’s wife, Nahla, was at Columbia University. Her brother is Mazen Al-Najjar:
New York “Mayor Adams: A couple of things. Radicalization is something that I have really studied and looked into across the globe and the methodologies that are used, and not only the role of individuals, but social media, the isolation, the loneliness that children sometimes experience can lead to that radicalization.   
 

What I don’t want us to continue to do that I’m hearing over and over again, was it 50 percent, was it 40 percent, was it X number percent? Let’s be clear, if one professor in a school using this as a hypothetical is instructing 50, 100 college students to do something inappropriate, that’s a bad thing. When we caught up on what’s the percentage and not the fact that we have substantiated that they were outside agitators, professors, professionals, who we have documentation that they were instructing to students and using different tactics and participating. That is too many.   
 

They were not supposed to be on the college campus. They were not supposed to be participating in this illegal action. I’m not going to continue to go down the road of what percentage are we talking about? One is too many.  
 

Mannarino: I understand one is too many, right. When you’re talking about outside agitators that have been arrested and then could be back on the street and going into these other groups, shouldn’t the public be aware of how many outside agitators there are and that were arrested on a campus that could have moved somewhere else?  
 

Mayor Adams: We did a series of arrests, several hundred arrests. We turned those names over to the institutions, particularly Columbia University. They’re doing an analysis to determine who’s a student and who’s not a student. We’re going to continue to cooperate with them…” Excerpts from: “Transcript: Mayor Adams Appears Live on PIX 11 Morning News” May 2, 2024 Read the entire transcript: https://web.archive.org/web/20240502194214/https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/346-24/transcript-mayor-adams-appears-live-pix-11-morning-news

Excerpts from:
“Transcript: Mayor Adams Appears Live on FOX5’s “Good Day New York”
May 2, 2024
“Mayor Adams: As I said when this started, that something was different about the protests. This was my, I don’t know if it was my police gut feeling, and I asked Intelligence Division Commissioner Weiner to monitor the situation and see what was taking place.   
 

It was materialized that there were outside agitators who were not part of the school community, as you indicated. It was not only my observation, but also the school. When the president wrote us a letter asking us to come in, she indicated, they indicated in the letter that there were outsiders that were also on the campus.  
 

Scotto: Mayor, do we know how many outsiders, who are these outsiders?  
 

Mayor Adams: We have identified some, but I want to go to the number because I hear people often asking that, and I use the analogy often. If you have one bad professor educating 30, 40, 50 college students with inappropriate actions, you don’t need 50 bad professors speaking to 50 students.   
 

You had individuals we identified instructing, training, showing tactics, participating in it. If it’s one, if it’s two, if it’s 20, that is what we need to be focusing on. We have people on the campus that should not have been there, and they were instructing students on inappropriate actions based on their history.  
 

Scotto: Did you hear about one of the organizers’ husbands being arrested on a federal level for terrorism? Do you know anything about that?  
 

Mayor Adams: Yes, that was part of the briefing I received, and that was really the tipping point for me, and we really leaned into the college officials and stated we’re at a different place in this issue. Listen, this is a democracy. We believe in protest. We don’t believe in violence, and we don’t believe in destroying property, what we witnessed at Hamilton Hall. That was the tipping point for me, that I knew that we had to take action before this continued to unravel….” Read the entire transcript: https://web.archive.org/web/20240504210558/https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/345-24/transcript-mayor-adams-appears-live-fox5-s-good-day-new-york-