Palestinian group received handout from Biden admin despite leaders cheering for terrorists: Report
A Palestinian nonprofit received $78,000 from the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) despite board members’ ties to and/or support of terror groups, according to a report by NGO Monitor.
The Community Development & Continuing Education Institute (CDCEI), a Palestinian nonprofit designed to improve educational and socio-economic conditions, was given nearly $80,000 by USAID in a Civic Participation and Community Engagement grant from 2021 to 2023, according to USAID’s announcement. The aid was given despite CDCEI’s board chairman Imad Al-Zeer being photographed at a celebration event in 2019 with the U.S.-designated terrorist group Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as well as terrorist support from other board members, according to NGO Monitor’s report.
The event was celebrating the 52th anniversary of PFLP’s founding and had a full minute of silence to commemorate the “souls of the martyrs,” and noted Al-Zeer’s attendance, according to the Al-Hadaf news outlet, which is affiliated with the PFLP.
“The festival, which was moderated by the student Donia Dandis and the student Rami Al-Ahmar, began with standing a minute of silence in honor of the souls of the martyrs, followed by the national anthem, and was attended by the Chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees, Professor Dawood Al-Zeer, Dr. Emad Al-Zeer, Vice President of the University, Dr. Nafeh Al-Hassan, Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Dr. Muhammad Sa’abneh, Dean of Student Affairs, many families of martyrs and prisoners, and a large crowd from the Labor Front and university students,” the article read.
Al-Zeer was photographed during the event next to signs and posters with the PFLP insignia and faces of associated terrorists on them, according to NGO Monitor’s report.
Al-Zeer has been the chairman since at least 2012, according to a post on the CDCEI’s Facebook page, and he is not the only one with questionable relations to terrorism. CDCEI’s deputy chairman Mike Salman has multiple posts on his own Facebook account praising terrorists who bombed and murdered Israelis as “hero martyrs.”
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