Convicted Terrorist Goes on Trial in Detroit for Immigration Fraud
Photo Credit: APA 66-year-old Palestinian activist and former Obamacare navigator from Chicago will go on trial in Detroit on November 4th for allegedly failing to disclose that she was convicted of two terrorist bombings in Israel on her U.S. visa and naturalization applications.
Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, a naturalized U.S. citizen, spent more than 10 years in an Israeli prison for her part in the 1969 bombing of a Supersol supermarket in Jerusalem that killed college students Edward Joffee and Leon Kanner, who were shopping for snacks for a hike. Thousands of Israelis attended their funerals.
Odeh is the associate director of the Arab-American Action Network (AAAN) founded by Rashid Khalidi, whose controversial 2003 farewell party was attended by then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama. She faces up to ten years in prison and deportation if she is convicted of immigration fraud.
According to the Oct. 17, 2013 indictment, Odeh was arrested in March 1969 with four other members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group that was “one of the original members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),” for two bombings in Israel. PFLP was declared a “foreign terrorist organization” by the U.S. State Department in 1997.
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