Presidential contender worked with terrorist

Senator Barack Obama, a U.S. Presidential contender, worked with terrorist, helped fund group opposing 'racist' Israel

Aaron Klein with World Net Daily News reported Sunday, Feb. 24, on Democratic Senator Barack Obama, now a U.S. Presidential contender, who served as a paid director for an Islamic charity funding an anti-Semitist group allegedly linked to terrorist sympathies.

The work to help the Arab American Action Network put Obama shoulder-to-shoulder with Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, a harsh critic of Israel’s right to exist.

Statements from Khalidi clarified his position as a supporter of anti-Israeli terror, in favor of the PLO, and its anti-Western terrorism while labeled by the State Departent as a terror group. 

In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network…for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president.

The Fund provided a second grant…for $35,000 in 2002.

Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website.

According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.

Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements.

Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The $40,000 grant from Obama's Woods Fund…constituted about a fifth of [the Arab American Action Network] reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND.

The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of [the group’s] reported grants for that year. …

Speakers at Arab American Action Network dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.

The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948. …

Obama served on the board with Ayers…a Weathermen leader [who wrote about] his involvement with the group's bombings of the New York City police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers told the New York Times in an interview released on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled "Fugitive Days." He continued with a disclaimer that he didn't personally set the bombs, but his group set the explosives and planned the attack. …

The charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct.

This WND artical follows a previous report quoting Israeli security officials characterized as "concerned" about Obama adviser Robert Malley, who advocated negotiations and international assistance for Hamas terrorists in Israel.

Malley’s views are noted in numerous opinion articles, including several co-written with a former adviser to the late PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.

They argued for dialogue with Hamas and against Israel for policies they claimed were harmful to displaced Arabs in the Gaza enclave and the “West Bank“ Arab communities.

Israeli leaders rebut the arguments with historical references to the root causes of the “Palestinian problem” involving Arab populations eager to join the pan-Arab war to destroy Israel at the time of its modern restoration in 1948.

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