California Rep. Sara Jacobs holds a peculiar position on the Israel-Hamas war.
Despite her Jewish faith, Rep. Jacobs is prominently anti-Israel when it comes to the conflict. She previously called upon the United States government to withdraw arms funding for the Benjamin Netanyahu’s forces, and her remarks often focus on the impact on Palestinian civilians rather than the atrocities of the Hamas-led regime.
This seemingly conflicted viewpoint was emphasized once again on Thursday, July 24, when she announced she would not be attending the Israeli Prime Minister’s speech to Congress.
However, it was the response by one social media user which really raised eyebrows.
As some sleuthing from Ariel Sterman uncovered, a few simple Google searches reveal that her fiancé is Palestinian.
Now, that wouldn’t be damning on it’s own. After all, surely she’s more likely to sympathize with the Palestinians if she’s going to be married to one.
But the rabbit hole goes far deeper than that. Her Palestinian husband is the grandson of Abu Youssef, a member of the terrorist and far-left Palestine Liberation Organization, and key planner of the 1972 Munich massacre, which killed 11 Israelis. Seven months later, Youssef and his wife were killed in an Israeli raid on their Beirut apartment while their children were home.
In 1965, while working in Kuwait, Abu Youssef co-founded Fatah with Yasser Arafat and other exiled Palestinians.
Youssef’s grandson Ammar Campa-Najjar is also involved in U.S. Democrat politics, and worked as a regional field director for Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign. He was also a White House intern during the Obama administration, and worked in the Labor department. He’s also unsuccessfully run for Congress twice.
Commenters reacted with shock at the response.
