Senate Committee Launches Investigation Into American Muslim Group For Alleged Terrorist Ties
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee launched an investigation into American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), an allegedly Hamas-tied organization that allegedly funds many of the pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.
According to letters from Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the committee chairman, to multiple universities as well as Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and AMP leadership, AMP has “extensive” terrorist ties and funds chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — one of the primary organizations behind the campus protests.
Cassidy asked the schools, which include Columbia University, Barnard College, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and George Washington University (GW), for information regarding AMP’s involvement in protests, many of which saw illegal encampments, violence, disruption, and even the occupation of buildings. The letters to Bondi and Patel seek information on any investigations the Department of Justice or FBI might have underway.
SJP has chapters at multiple colleges and is the on-campus organizer of many of the protests, but is backed by AMP, which the letters say “has personnel with reported ties to the Foreign Terrorist Organization Hamas.”
“AMP’s alleged ties to Hamas, which the U.S. Department of State has designated as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization,’ are extensive,” the DOJ and FBI letter states. “AMP has also been actively involved in organizing college students. It has worked for more than a decade to support SJP campus groups which, according to reports, have been actively involved in campus demonstrations.” (Read more from “Senate Committee Launches Investigation Into American Muslim Group For Alleged Terrorist Ties” HERE)
