The American Congress member, and the "secret group" praising Hamas
Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is a member of a Facebook group that praises Hamas following the recent violence in the Gaza Strip. This was reported today (Wednesday) on Fox News. Tlaib, a member of the Democratic Party, is part of the "Palestinian-American Congress" group, which is hidden from non-members and does not appear in Facebook's internal search engine.
The founder of the Facebook group, Maher Abdel-Qader, is connected to Tlaib and other politicians. Abdel-Qader faced harsh criticism in the past due to anti-Semitic posts, including questioning the occurrence of the Holocaust.
In the Facebook group that he manages, a post was made on October 12th stating, "We don't want to throw you into the sea... We want you to slip back to where you came from." The post included a picture of an elderly Israeli woman who was captured by a Hamas militant.
Tlaib joined the group six years ago and posted in it during her 2018 congressional campaign. A year later, she faced criticism when it was revealed that she was a member of the same group, but this did not lead her to leave.