“Reports of individuals with ties to terrorist groups or their affiliates engaging with students on college campuses are cause for the highest alarm,” wrote committee chairman Bill Cassidy.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions launched a probe into American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a prominent Hamas-linked advocacy group, over its role in fueling anti-Israel demonstrations on American college campuses, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R., La.) sent a letter to AMP’s founder and chairman Hatem Bazian on Wednesday demanding the nonprofit hand over documents and records detailing the group’s financial and logistical involvement in supporting college protests in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Bazian, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has argued that “it’s about time we had an intifada in this country.”
“Reports of individuals with ties to terrorist groups or their affiliates engaging with students on college campuses are cause for the highest alarm,” Cassidy wrote in the letter. “Activity that threatens the safety of others is not constitutionally protected free speech, and conduct that violates campus rules should not be tolerated.”