A vocal anti-Israel activist, who has made a number of donations to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s, D-Mich., Area campaigns, mourned the assassination of a lead Hamas chief on Wednesday, pronouncing his “martyrdom is not in vain.”
Zahra Billoo, a disgraced former Ladies’s March chief and the chief director of Council on American-Islamic Family members (CAIR) in San Francisco, took to social media later it used to be reported that Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh used to be assassinated in Tehran, Iran, prompting Iranian Ideally suited Chief Ali Khamenei to promise “revenge” for the assault.
“Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it,” Billoo stated within the first a part of her put up, showing to cite the Quran.
“Tonight, we mourn Ismail himself but know his martyrdom is not in vain,” she continued, the usage of a debatable word driven by means of anti-Israel activists to ruthless the removing of Israel. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
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Zahra Billoo, left, an best friend of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., mourned the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. (Fox Information)
“I mourn yesterday’s martyrs because I can see the horrific path killing peace negotiators leads to,” Billoo added in a follow-up X thread, accusing Israel of a “genocide.”
Billoo’s preliminary put up instantly drew backlash from social media customers, with some nation mocking the Quran quote and pronouncing the Hamas chief is certainly “not alive.”
“Probably important to remember this, too, whenever you see the name CAIR,” journalist Bari Weiss stated.
Billoo, who has donated almost $1,000 to a couple of Tlaib campaigns, has been a lightning rod of controversy lately over her anti-Israel rhetoric, which ended in the left-wing Ladies’s March board severing ties along with her in 2019 later most effective serving two days. She posted a 25-post Twitter wool on the age blaming her ouster on an “Islamophobic smear campaign” and “right-wingers.”
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Regardless of the backlash, Tlaib came to Billoo’s defense the past later the ouster, posting, “#FreePalestine always sis! They won’t silence us for speaking out against human rights violations.”
“They will lie, smear our names and call us anti this and that, but we always be pro-humanity & we have the truth on our side. Stay strong,” she persevered.
A number of of Billoo’s debatable posts had been circulating on social media in a while later she used to be introduced as a Ladies’s March board member.
“If you support Israel, you are no doubt supporting baby killers,” Billoo wrote in a single unearthed 2014 put up that used to be circulating forward of the ouster. In alternative posts she described Zionism as “racism” and stated she used to be a “proud anti-Zionist.”
“In looking at the tweets in question, I acknowledge that I wrote passionately. While I may have phrased some of my content differently today, I stand by my words,” Billoo stated in 2019 about a number of of her debatable posts.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and union activists speak about detached accent on school campuses, on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Might 23, 2024. (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite)
Previous to the Ladies’s March controversy, Billoo took a “selfie” with Tlaib out of doors her Washington, D.C., congressional place of work in early 2019 and stated, “Not all sheros wear capes, some like Rep. [Tlaib] wear Congressional pins!”
“So good to see you sis! I will always speak truth to power because I got you to protect,” Tlaib responded.
Billoo used to be additionally in attendance at a Tlaib fundraising match in California in 2021, according to a Facebook post.
This isn’t the primary age a CAIR chief has ignited backlash on social media. Extreme December, Nihad Awad, the chief director and co-founder of CAIR, stated he used to be “happy to see” the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and that the Jewish atmosphere didn’t have a proper to self-defense as a result of it’s an “occupying power.”
“And yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense — have the right to defend themselves. And yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense,” he stated.
President of American-Islamic Family members Nihad Awad speaks at an match in entrance of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. (Photograph by means of Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Company by means of Getty Pictures)
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Along with Billoo’s anti-Israel rhetoric, she has additionally time and again attacked Memorial Year and smeared the U.S. army, wondering why fallen squaddies will have to be remembered.
“You think we should honor people who commit war crimes?” she requested in a single put up.
“Did not and does not celebrate #MemorialDay,” Billoo posted in a long 2019 wool. “There cannot be any honor earned through participation in dishonorable wars.”
Tlaib’s place of work didn’t reply to Fox Information Virtual’s request for remark.
Fox Information’ Aubrie Spady and Landon Mion contributed to this document.
