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In 1969, Edward Joffe, 22, and Leon Kanner, 21, both students at Hebrew University, were obliterated in a bomb attack at a Jerusalem supermarket. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group designated as terrorists by the United States, orchestrated the carnage. Among those involved was Rasmea Odeh, convicted in an Israeli court in 1970 for her role in this atrocity. Two young men, shopping for groceries before the Sabbath, reduced to mere casualties in the name of a vicious cause.
Enter Zohran Mamdani and his outfit, Students for Justice in Palestine, a group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, openly supportive of Hamas and the barbarism of October 7. They rallied for Odeh, a convicted terrorist, with a fervor that betrays their priorities.
Mamdani, ever the smooth-talking progressive, assures New York’s Jewish population that they will be safe under his stewardship. Yet his track record, his enthusiasm for “localizing the intifada,”casts a long, dark shadow over such promises.
Supporting a terrorist linked to the murder of two Jewish students in a supermarket bombing is not exactly a ringing endorsement of peace.
Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner were barely out of their teens when their lives were snuffed out. They were at the SuperSol supermarket when a bomb, hidden under a counter, detonated, killing them and wounding ten others. This was no random act of violence; it was a calculated strike, meant to terrorize and destroy.
Rasmea Odeh, the terrorist in question, later slipped into America, where she became a darling of Islamists and their leftist fellow travelers. Zohran’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, with its unapologetic embrace of Hamas and the October 7 atrocities, took up her cause with gusto. This is what it means to “globalize” and then “localize” the intifada—a chilling euphemism for importing the rhetoric and reality of terror.
A commenter on JW unearthed the grim details from US Immigration records about Odeh’s past. The bombs that killed Joffe and Kanner were planted in 1969:
Before immigrating to the United States, Odeh had been convicted overseas for her participation in two 1969 terrorist bombings in Israel, and for having been a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States. Specifically, she was convicted of placing two bombs at a supermarket that killed two individuals and of planting a bomb at the British Consulate in Jerusalem, as well as membership in an illegal organization. Odeh was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released after serving more than 10 years in prison as part of a prisoner exchange with the PFLP.
Odeh obtained a US immigrant visa in 1994 and lived in America for 22 years, even securing citizenship in 2004. She achieved this by lying, brazenly, deliberately, about her criminal past. She failed to disclose her arrests, convictions, and imprisonment in both her visa and citizenship applications. According to her plea agreement, she admitted:
Odeh knew her lies were unlawful. Had she told the truth, as required, she would never have set foot in America, let alone gained citizenship. Her deception allowed her to live freely for over two decades, celebrated by those who, like Mamdani, seem to find in her story not shame but inspiration.
This is the reality of "localizing the intifada," a grotesque romanticization of violence, dressed up in the language of justice. And it raises a question that Mamdani and his allies must answer: how can you claim to protect a community while championing those who have sought its destruction?
Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner were barely out of their teens when their lives were snuffed out. They were at the SuperSol supermarket when a bomb, hidden under a counter, detonated, killing them and wounding ten others. This was no random act of violence; it was a calculated strike, meant to terrorize and destroy.
Rasmea Odeh, the terrorist in question, later slipped into America, where she became a darling of Islamists and their leftist fellow travelers. Zohran’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, with its unapologetic embrace of Hamas and the October 7 atrocities, took up her cause with gusto. This is what it means to “globalize” and then “localize” the intifada—a chilling euphemism for importing the rhetoric and reality of terror.
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| Terrorist Rasmea Odeh |
A commenter on JW unearthed the grim details from US Immigration records about Odeh’s past. The bombs that killed Joffe and Kanner were planted in 1969:
Before immigrating to the United States, Odeh had been convicted overseas for her participation in two 1969 terrorist bombings in Israel, and for having been a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States. Specifically, she was convicted of placing two bombs at a supermarket that killed two individuals and of planting a bomb at the British Consulate in Jerusalem, as well as membership in an illegal organization. Odeh was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released after serving more than 10 years in prison as part of a prisoner exchange with the PFLP.
Odeh obtained a US immigrant visa in 1994 and lived in America for 22 years, even securing citizenship in 2004. She achieved this by lying, brazenly, deliberately, about her criminal past. She failed to disclose her arrests, convictions, and imprisonment in both her visa and citizenship applications. According to her plea agreement, she admitted:
she lied about her criminal history by falsely denying that she had ever been arrested, charged with a crime, convicted, or imprisoned. In her plea, Odeh also admitted that at the time she made the false statements, she knew the statements were false, and that "she made the false statements intentionally and not as a result of any mistake, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or any other psychological issue or condition", as she had previously claimed in court proceedings, "or for any innocent reason."
Odeh knew her lies were unlawful. Had she told the truth, as required, she would never have set foot in America, let alone gained citizenship. Her deception allowed her to live freely for over two decades, celebrated by those who, like Mamdani, seem to find in her story not shame but inspiration.
This is the reality of "localizing the intifada," a grotesque romanticization of violence, dressed up in the language of justice. And it raises a question that Mamdani and his allies must answer: how can you claim to protect a community while championing those who have sought its destruction?
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