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Leader of radical group that amplified pro-Hamas essay made multiple visits to Biden-Harris White House

Leader of radical group that amplified pro-Hamas essay made multiple visits to Biden-Harris White House

FIRST ON FOX: The head of a prominent “social justice” group that published an essay calling for “decriminalizing Hamas,” along with defunding the police and eliminating immigration agencies, visited the White House multiple times earlier this year. Joyce Ajlouny, listed as the general secretary of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), is shown on official logs visiting the White House twice in March 2024 for a total of three meetings with members of the Biden administration. Ajlouny and a delegation of religious leaders “met with Biden administration staff from the National Security Council, the Domestic Policy Council, and the Office of Public Engagement to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza,” according to a statement issued by Ajlouny at the time in a press release. “I joined with people representing many different churches and denominations to call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire and full access for humanitarian aid,” she continued. “The Biden Administration has the power to make this happen.”   MUSLIM CLERIC WHO PRAISED ADOLF HITLER, HAMAS SPOKE AT HARRIS RUNNING MATE TIM WALZ’S 2019 INAUGURATION AFSC has pushed a variety of far-left causes, including a September 2019 essay written by author Jonathan Kuttab, a “Palestinian human rights lawyer,” titled, “Decriminalizing Hamas.”  Kuttab called “to end the demonization of Hamas, bring it into the political process and begin the long road to peace and freedom,” the Washington Free Beacon reported this past week. AFSC, a self-described “Quaker org” based in Philadelphia, has been a fierce critic of Israel, blaming it as the “root cause” of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel last October. At the height of the George Floyd riots in 2020, the group also posted a call to defund the police. “In the wake of ongoing police killings of Black people, AFSC joins a growing number of groups calling on cities and states to invest money in schools, health care, and transformative justice approaches, rather than funding the police,” the post stated. In another post shared by the group, which is titled, “A Quaker call to defund the police,” the essay says, “Defunding the police is a demand from the Black Lives Matter movement.” “At this point we need to follow and support the calls and demands from the Black people and grassroots organizations offering profound leadership,” the essay continued. “It is not for us to mute or critique the demands that Black folks are making right now.” AFSC repeatedly called for defunding the police and abolishing ICE and border patrol on their official X account. The Marguerite Casey Foundation, a radical far-left organization that has repeatedly supported abolishing police and ICE, is one of several left-wing foundations that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to AFSC, which includes the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a billionaire-fueled fund that keeps popping up in the financials for anti-Israel groups. BIDEN FOCUSED ON ‘LEGACY’ IN FINAL MONTHS, BUT SKELETON SCHEDULE ‘SIGNALS’ AN EMPTY HOUSE TO RIVALS: EXPERT AFSC’s media relations director responded to Fox News Digital’s inquiry about their controversial positions by saying, “AFSC is a Quaker organization that values the life and dignity of every single person.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “For more than a century we have worked to end wars and alleviate suffering in the U.S. and around the world,” Layne Mullett said. “In 1947, the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to AFSC and the British Friends Service Council, in recognition of the work of Quakers worldwide to heal rifts, tend to the wounded, and oppose war.” “We have a long history in Israel and Palestine and began doing relief work in Gaza in 1948,” she continued. “We continue to do vital humanitarian work there today. We have been outspoken advocates to end the occupation of Palestinian and to build lasting peace with justice between Israelis, Palestinians, and all people for decades.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Harris campaign for comment but did not receive a response.

‘He ignored us’: Local Minnesota school superintendent slams Walz’s ‘negative impact’ on K-12 education

‘He ignored us’: Local Minnesota school superintendent slams Walz’s ‘negative impact’ on K-12 education

EXCLUSIVE: A local private school superintendent believes Gov. Tim Walz’s policies have had a “negative impact” on education in Minnesota, suggesting he “broke trust” with residents during the coronavirus pandemic. “He’s ignored us,” Kim Friesen, who has lived in rural Minnesota for 21 years, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “I think he’s broken trust with rural Minnesota because of education and how he hasn’t listened or visited or been out here.” Friesen, who works as an administrator at Mountain Lake Christian School, detailed the effect she has seen Walz’s policies have on education in the state. “The majority of the thinking that Governor Waltz did was all Metro. He didn’t consider some of the unique problems that we face in rural Minnesota, for example, connectivity,” Friesen said of rules enforced in the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been kind of hard to see the negative impact that has taken place under Governor Waltz’s leadership.” ‘NOT MY GOVERNOR’: MINNESOTA SMALL BUSINESS OWNER RIPS HARRIS VP PICK’S ‘RADICAL’ COVID-ERA POLICIES Friesen said that rural families faced roadblocks to online learning requirements during the pandemic, such as not having access to the internet. FORMER MINNESOTA RESIDENT UNLOADS ON GOV WALZ AFTER MOTHER DIED OF ‘LONELINESS’ DURING PANDEMIC “Rural Minnesota really suffered during that time,” she added. “I don’t think he cared for all his people well. He cared for the center of our state. North, south, rural, east and west, we did not get his attention, and we deserved his attention.” Friesen also said that she does not think Walz appears to want to connect with rural Minnesotans. “I do believe that some of the things that he has said are very self-focused rather than people-focused. And I need a vice president that is going to be us focused,” she said. “He needs to know his people better. And if he’s not willing to do it in a state, how can he do it for the nation?” When asked about a potential Harris-Walz administration, Friesen said that the policies enacted in Minnesota could be reflected at a national level – such as social issues and illegal immigration. Walz signed an order making Minnesota a “trans refuge state,” where minors from out of state could receive transgender surgical procedures and hormone prescriptions. “His ideas on allowing children or encouraging children from other states to come for transgender surgery or therapy, it just breaks my heart,” Friesen said of the order. “It rips parents’ authority away. And I don’t believe that’s God’s design. God gave children to parents, not to the government.” “Neither one of them are ready to lead a nation. Neither one. They don’t have the experience. They don’t have the wherewithal to fight for people who are here. And I think they have some distorted views on how to move forward. That would not better our state, nor our nation,” she said. “So that’s of concern.” Before entering the political scene, Walz worked as a high school teacher in Minnesota. One of Walz’s former students, who asked to remain anonymous, told Fox News Digital that he was a “very belittling teacher.” “He yelled at students constantly. He would treat conservative students poorly and he would one side his teaching. If you were liberal he liked you, and if you were conservative he treated you like garbage. He was not a kind person. I nicknamed him “Hitler” because he was so strict and was constantly yelling at kids down the halls,” the former student told Fox. “Not to mention he was a traitor and left his crew behind during war. There is nothing honorable about that!”

Biden committed ‘impeachable conduct,’ ‘defrauded United States to enrich his family’: House GOP report

Biden committed ‘impeachable conduct,’ ‘defrauded United States to enrich his family’: House GOP report

President Biden engaged in “impeachable conduct,” House Republicans found in their months-long impeachment inquiry, declaring in their highly anticipated report that he “abused his office” and “defrauded the United States to enrich his family.”  Fox News Digital obtained a copy of the 292-page report prepared by the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. Those panels have been leading the impeachment inquiry against Biden.  “The Committees have accumulated evidence demonstrating that President Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct,” the report, which lays out evidence gathered to date, says.  HOUSE REPUBLICANS REFER HUNTER BIDEN, JAMES BIDEN FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AMID IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY Republicans said there is “overwhelming evidence” that Biden participated in a “conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family.” They alleged that the Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by “leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden.”  The committees said the Biden family and its associates received more than $27 million from foreign individuals or entities since 2014. They also alleged that the Biden family leveraged Biden’s position as vice president to obtain more than $8 million in loans from Democrat benefactors. The loans “have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the committees.” The Republicans said the conspiracy took place while Biden was serving as vice president. HUNTER DEMANDED $10M FROM CHINESE ENERGY FIRM BECAUSE ‘BIDENS ARE THE BEST,’ HAVE ‘CONNECTIONS’ “As Vice President, President Biden actively participated in his conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on speakerphone by Hunter Biden,” the report states. Republicans referenced in the report a 2014 dinner that Biden attended for his son, Hunter, with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina. After the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Hunter Biden’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Thornton.  Fox News Digital had previously reported that Biden attended dinners with Hunter Biden’s business associates, including Baturina, in Washington, D.C., at Café Milano in Georgetown in both 2014 and 2015. Biden also met with Jonathan Li of BHR in China in 2013.  Fox News Digital also previously reported that Biden met with the chair of Chinese energy firm CEFC, Ye Jianming, in 2017.  “Based on the totality of evidence, it is inconceivable that President Biden did not understand that he was taking part in an effort to enrich his family by abusing his office of public trust,” the report states. FLASHBACK: HUNTER BIDEN IN 2017 SENT ‘BEST WISHES’ FROM ‘ENTIRE BIDEN FAMILY’ TO CHINA FIRM CHAIRMAN, REQUESTED $10M WIRE Republicans also said the Biden family “went to great lengths to conceal this conspiracy.” “Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial transactions,” the report states. “The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large transactions into numerous smaller transactions.” Republicans said Hunter Biden and his business associates leveraged Joe Biden’s position as vice president to garner “favorable outcomes in foreign business dealings and legal proceedings.”  “Several witnesses testified that Hunter Biden invoked his father in business dealings with Romanian, Chinese, Kazakhstani, and Ukrainian companies, resulting in millions of dollars flowing to the Biden family,” the report states. DEVON ARCHER: HUNTER BIDEN, BURISMA EXECS ‘CALLED DC’ TO GET UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR FIRED “President Biden’s participation in this conspiracy to enrich his family constitutes as impeachable conduct,” they said. “By monetizing the Vice Presidency for his family’s benefit, he abused his office of public trust, placing the welfare of his family ahead of the welfare of the United States.” Republicans added, “He also put foreign interests ahead of the interests of the American people.” Meanwhile, Republicans in their report also said Biden used his official position to “conceal his mishandling of classified information as a private citizen.”  “During his tenure as Vice President, Joe Biden removed highly sensitive classified documents from the White House, despite having no authority to do so,” the report states.  FLASHBACK: HUNTER BIDEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATE’S TEXT MESSAGES INDICATE MEETING WITH JOE BIDEN Special Counsel Robert Hur investigated Biden’s improper retention of classified records for months but did not recommend charges against the president. The records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other records related to national security that implicated “sensitive intelligence sources and methods.” But Hur earlier this year described Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” and said it “would be difficult to convince a jury they should convict him.” The report also shifts to allegations from IRS whistleblowers, who said federal investigators allowed the statute of limitations to expire on Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes.  “The Justice Department prevented line attorneys from conducting key interviews and pursuing important lines of inquiry,” the report states. “The special treatment for Hunter Biden, which only ceased at the onset of congressional attention on the Department’s investigation, may be a basis for impeachment, as the distortion of an official investigation was a basis in the prospective impeachment of President Nixon in 1974.”  BIDEN MET WITH CHAIR OF CHINESE ENERGY FIRM HUNTER DID BUSINESS WITH IN 2017, EX-ASSOCIATE TESTIFIES The report adds, “In certain circumstances the President may be impeached for the actions of subordinate officials.”  “The totality of the corrupt conduct uncovered by the Committees is egregious,” the report states. “President Joe Biden conspired to commit influence peddling and grift. In doing so, he abused his office and, by repeatedly lying about his abuse of office, has defrauded the United States to enrich his family.”  Republicans argue that “not one of these transactions would have occurred, but for Joe Biden’s official position in the United States government.”  JOE BIDEN RECEIVED $40K IN ‘LAUNDERED CHINA MONEY’ FROM BROTHER IN 2017, COMER SAYS “This pattern of conduct ensured his family – who provided no legitimate services – lived