Hat tip Politico
Rasmea Odeh. Where have I heard that name before? Oh yes. On May 1, activist Loubna Qutami spoke at UC Irvine on behalf of the Muslim Student Union as part of their annual hate Israel week. That was when campus cops mistakenly prevented me from taping her speech. During this speech Qutami referred to Odeh.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2014/05/loubna-qutami-speaks-at-uc-irvine.html
So now Odeh is having her deportation proceeding and, lo and behold, she wants the Jewish judge off the case.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/07/defense-wants-proisrael-federal-judge-off-case-192135.html
Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that the judge is Jewish, mind you. It's because he supports Israel. Right.
I wonder why Odeh's team is bring up the fact that the judge gave $3 million to the United Jewish Federation. (Of course, if that is the same Jewish Federation as that outfit we have out here in Orange County, maybe I want him off the case too.)
To me the facts are pretty clear. She hid the facts of her involvement in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (a terrorist organization) and her conviction on bombing charges on her immigration and citizenship applications (just as Nazis hid their party membership and war crimes hidden when they came to the US). That is grounds for deportation.
Get her out of here.
"That is grounds for deportation"
ReplyDeleteWill you say the same for "ex-terrorists" like Walid Shoebat or Kamaal Saleem???
Or are "ex-terrorists" who are now pro-Israel get to stay?
Is OJ Simpson an "ex-murderer"?
Marcus,
ReplyDeleteI never heard of Kamaal Saleem. As for Shoebat, it appears he has not tried to hide what he did before. He publicizes it. I heard him speak once at UCI. From what he said, I'm really not sure what the hell he did to merit the title, ex terrorist. If he did something significant or belonged to a known terrorist group and did not disclose that on his immigration papers then he would have a problem, wouldn't he?
As for Simpson, no-he is a murderer, plain and simple.
And I am not comfortable having Odeh in this country.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think this was legal in the US. I guess the law has been changed.
ReplyDeleteAll hyperemotional rhetoric aside, she probably won't get very far with this. The nearest precedent I know is that a judge who was Episcopalian did not have to recuse himself from a case merely because an Episcopal church (in another state) was a party to the case.
ReplyDeleteThe connection here is even more attenuated.
Shoebat and Saleem may indeed be con artists saying whatever gets them the lifestyle they aspire to, but there is a difference between openly stating and explaining your past associations, and hiding them. Simpson can't be deported, because he is a native born U.S. citizen (serving a rather long prison sentence last I knew). He's also a fool -- free as a bird with a $25,000 a month pension, untouchable by his in-law creditors, and he commits some sort of aggravated assault trying to reclaim a trophy. Dumb.