“Day Without a Woman” Protest Organizer is a Convicted Terrorist, Illegal Immigrant


In 1970. Odeh was convicted in Israel for participating in a 1969 bombing that killed two Israeli students. She served a 10-year sentence before being released to Jordan as part of a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Somehow she got into the United States while hiding her criminal past. (Sound familiar?) She became active in Palestinian-American affairs and served as the associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago. She then was able to secure her U.S. citizenship in 2004.

Later she was arrested on immigration fraud charges and convicted in Federal court in Detroit in 2014. She was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and stripped of her U.S. citizenship. She appealed the decision, claiming she had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from her time in Israeli prison that caused her to lie on her immigration paperwork.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals accepted her claim for a retrial, overturned the District Court conviction and sent the case back to the District Court. A new trial was schedule for January 2017, but her attorneys have succeeded in getting it moved to a later date.

Meanwhile, this convicted Palestinian terrorist will be front and center on March 8 as a leader of the “Day Without a Woman” protest.

U.S. Army veteran Angelina Newsom has this reaction to the outrageous situation:

“This should trouble all women who claim to be advocates for women’s rights. . . . Meanwhile there are women who have honorably served their country in many different ways, who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of fighting terrorism There are women who are permanently disabled due to injuries suffered as a direct result of terrorism, the very acts that Odeh was convicted of committing. Instead of fleeing their country, proud American women have stepped up to serve in the Armed Forces. These militant organizations – and especially this terrorist who is in America fraudulently – do not speak for me.”

Source: Washington Examiner, Opslens



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