Rep. Tlaib part of hidden Facebook group that glorifies Hamas: report

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who says she is advocating for “peace” after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack against Israel, is part of a hidden Facebook group that has praised the jihadists who kidnapped and killed hundreds of civilians — including at least 33 Americans.

Tlaib is a member of the Facebook group Palestinian American Congress, Fox News reported, whose founder, Maher Abdel-qader, has previously referred to Israelis as not “real Jews” and questioned whether the Holocaust really happened.

The Facebook group, which Tlaib joined six years ago, has posted several images of Hamas fighters following the terror group’s brutal assault that left at least 1,200 dead across southern Israel.

Around 240 people were also kidnapped and taken back to the Gaza Strip by the jihadists.

“We don’t want to throw you in the sea…we want you to ride it back from where you came,” a member of the Palestinian American Congress posted on Oct. 12, sharing a picture of an elderly Israeli woman identified as a Holocaust survivor held hostage by Hamas.

Another post on Oct. 19 showed a Hamas terrorist alongside a list of “achievements” reached by the “resistance in Northern occupied Palestine.”

Just three days after the terror attack, one member of the group denounced “American Media” coverage of the war for making “no mention” of “the killing of Palestinian women, children and entire families killed on a daily basses [sic] by the peace loving state of Israel using American gifts of weapons and jet fighters.”

“Yesterday I didn’t see Hamas I saw the grand kids [sic] of the refugees that ethnically cleansed from their homeland attacking the grand kids [sic] of the colonists whom sent them to the Diaspora,” the post also read.

Tlaib has similarly accused the Israeli government of “ethnic cleansing” and the US government of providing the funding for “war crimes.”

A spokesman for Tlaib did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The House censured Tlaib last week for amplifying content on social media that has defended Hamas’ actions as justified “resistance” and called for the destruction of Israel.

In a Nov. 3 post on X, the Michigan Democrat said that the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — which is widely understood as a call for the eradication of the Jewish state — was “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.”

Tlaib has also blamed Israel for conducting an airstrike on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which has since been determined by US intelligence to have been a misfired rocket from the Hamas-linked Palestine Islamic Jihad.

Abdel-qader, who served as finance chairman for Tlaib’s 2018 congressional campaign, referred to the hospital blast as an “Israeli Nazis air strike on Ahli Arab Hospital killed more than 500 people stop the massacre now.”

US intelligence concluded that between 100 and 300 were killed by the rocket, and the number likely fell on the lower end of that range.

Abdel-qader has also shared videos in which Jewish people were referred to as “Satanic,” which resurfaced two years ago and he later apologized for.

He posted Monday about a Chicago fundraiser for Tlaib and Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.), both of whom he said “whole heartedly support[s]” for representing the “just cause of Palestine,” according to a flier on his Facebook.