Hamas Supporters Attempt To Breach White House Fence

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39. WaPo is reporting that the "demonstrators arrived by the busloads"

for the protest in Washington.

It is also reporting that one of the march organizers was the umbrella group American Muslim Task Force for Palestine of which both American Muslims for Palestine and CAIR are members.

The rally, organized by the American Muslim Task Force for Palestine and other groups, is the second large protest in support of Gaza in Washington since the Israel-Gaza war began on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/13/march-for-gaza-dc-rally-israel-hamas-war/

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Here's what Influence Watch has to say about American Muslims for Palestine:

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is an anti-Israel organization with strong ties to pro-Hamas individuals and organizations. While AMP refers to itself as an educational organization focused primarily on raising awareness for Palestinian causes, it has been described by the Anti-Defamation League as “the leading organization providing anti-Zionist training” in America.

Multiple individuals associated with AMP have ties to organizations that have been implicated by the federal government for offering support to terrorist entities such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. At a 2014 AMP conference, a lecturer invited attendees to “navigate the fine line between legal activism and material support for terrorism.”

AMP has been accused of serving as a de facto rebrand of a group called the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) that shut down shortly after a 2004 judgment which implicated it and several similar Muslims groups in providing “material support” to Hamas. A subsequent lawsuit alleged that AMP had essentially the same leaders, mission, and initiatives as the IAP. The AMP has contested these claims, denying the allegedly shared leadership and insisting that there was a two-year gap between the old organization shutting down and its own launch.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-muslims-for-palestine/