Meet the pro-Hamas activist courted by the Biden administration
By
Gabe Kaminsky
February 11, 2024 6:00 am
He’s called Palestinian terrorists “freedom fighters,” bragged about telling the White House he won’t “apologize for Hamas firing rockets at Israel,” and defended the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in the Jewish state.
Meet Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, an anti-Israel website in Dearborn, a city in Michigan with the largest Muslim population in the United States that the Wall Street Journal in February dubbed “America’s Jihad Capital.” And on Thursday, at least seven Biden administration officials headed to Dearborn to visit with Arab and Muslim American leaders as part of the White House’s efforts to win back pro-Palestinian activists angry with the U.S. government for supporting Israel. One attendee was, in fact, Siblani.
That Siblani was included in the meeting, which featured Jon Finer, the deputy national security adviser, and U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, underscores how the Biden administration has platformed Hamas sympathizers whose hypothetical boycott of President Joe Biden in the 2024 election could have major implications. Michigan has 200,000 Muslim and Arab residents, and Biden only beat former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee in 2024, by roughly 3 percentage points in the state when the two faced off in 2020.
“This is called political maneuvering,” Sam Markstein, national political director for the Republican Jewish Coalition, told the Washington Examiner. “The White House is seeing Biden’s poll numbers crater. Now, Biden has tried to appease his far-left, antisemitic base, which is becoming more and more mainstream.”
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