The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) would not say Tuesday whether it is investigating people identifying themselves as part of a foreign terrorist organization heard chanting “We are Hamas ” outside U. S. institutions including Columbia.
Video footage shows masked Islamists taunting Israeli students outside of President Barack Obama’s old school. One person shouted at a pro-Israel advocate, “We are Hamas” while standing outside Columbia University. “We’re all Hamas. ”
Another person who covered his face was seen on movie promising more energy murder, rape, and abduction: “Remember the 7th of October! That will occur no one more time, not five more times, to 10 more days, never 100 more days, not 1,000 more days, but 10,000 occasions! ”
“Never ignore the 7th of October, ” another unknown male donning the Arab symbol outside the school cries in a video recording. “Are you set? Seventh of October is about to be every time. Every time. Seventh of October is going to be every day for you. ”
The Federalist asked the FBI whether they would check the self-proclaimed jihadists.
“Thank you for your examination. But, we decline comment on this subject, ” the commission replied.
The FBI defines Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Perhaps the FBI’s unwillingness to let the American people know it ’s monitoring self-proclaimed terrorists is because the agency allegedly trained some of its personnel using material that “ranked people who oppose abortion, pro-life activists, as a greater threat than Islamists, ” as former special agent Steve Friend told the Tennessee Informer.
Friend said he received the teaching materials in 2014 but was doubtful whether the firm still used it. The materials, he said, were produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ), a hate group whose materials inspired a gunman to shoot up the offices of a conservative DC organization in 2012, and another gunman to attempt to murder a member of Congress in 2017.
As of 2023, the FBI also uses some SPLC supplies. SPLC responded to the October 7 terrorist assault in Israel by claiming that, while “all deeds of hate crime ” are bad, Israel targets Israeli civilians. That is a Hamas advertising stop.
The FBI even cited SPLC in a 2023 report targeting standard Christians for opposing pregnancy and holding conservative views about the women. It labeled them “racially or ethnically motivated violent radicals” and also suggested cultivating FBI sources within local churches.
The FBI has also smeared Americans who support former President Donald Trump as potential terrorists by including them in their “domestic extremism ” definition, a 2023 report from Newsweek found. Newsweek found “nearly two-thirds of the FBI’s current investigations ” focus on Trump supporters who allegedly disregarded “anti-riot ” laws.
After Jan. 6, 2021, the agency also expanded its “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists-other ” classification so it could monitor anyone who disagrees with any government action. A 2021 investigator general report found that many FBI officials lied to cover up firm errors and dinged the company for its widespread absence of rapid investigation of afterwards convicted child sex abuser Larry Nassar.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.
