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New Jersey Dems Vote for Al-Qaida/Hamas Affiliate. Shouldn't We Deport Him Instead?

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A surgeon who worked for an al-Qaida terror front and a Hamas-controlled hospital just won his Democrat primary in New Jersey, but I say the U.S. government should be sending him off on a slow boat to Gaza.

Adam Hamawy testified on behalf of the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman, mastermind of the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing, concerning a conference to which Hamawy traveled with Abdel-Rahman where the sheikh and other jihadis promoted pro-terror views. According to the New York Post, which viewed the trial transcripts, Hamawy initially lied under oath and said the sheikh had not discussed jihad, only admitting the truth when confronted with evidence to the contrary.

Hamawy traveled to Bosnia in 1994 with the “Benevolence International Foundation," which Bosnian authorities later shut down in an operation coordinated with U.S. authorities after they found the organization was a front for funding and supporting al-Qaida. Osama Bin Laden himself founded the offices where Hamawy worked.

Not only that, but it appears Hamawy is still aligning himself with terror movements. In 2024, he visited Gaza (where the overwhelming majority of residents support jihad) and falsely accused Israel of "genocide," an accusation repeatedly debunked but dangerously effective in fueling violent antisemitism. While there, Hamawy worked as a surgeon at Gaza's European Hospital, which was subsequently exposed as a literal Hamas command center. Israel later eliminated Hamas boss Mohammed Sinwar and other key terrorists in a tunnel right under the hospital. Israel's military confirmed that Hamas used the hospital as a command center during the Oct. 7 atrocities, before Hamawy arrived there. There's even evidence that Hamas was holding Israeli hostages in the tunnels there while Hamawy was working at the hospital, per the Washington Free Beacon.

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It seems that Hamawy is now an American citizen, and has been for a long time, although I was unable to confirm exactly when that occurred. He was born in Egypt. And yes, I understand that it is a very difficult and tedious process to revoke citizenship and deport someone. But it has been done recently, notably in the case of former North Miami Mayor Jean Philippe Janiver, who obtained his U.S. citizenship fraudulently. At around the same time, the Department of Justice announced the move to denaturalize convicted sex offenders Erwin Galindo and Gurmeet Singh. Therefore, revoking citizenship from Hamawy for his openly admitted work with a literal terrorist group is not so far-fetched or impossible as some might think.

Indeed, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services explicitly states that a "person is subject to revocation of naturalization if the person becomes a member of, or affiliated with, the Communist party, other totalitarian party, or terrorist organization within five years of his or her naturalization." The question would be whether or not Hamawy worked with the al-Qaida affiliate or associated himself with the likes of the Blind Sheikh within five years of his naturalization. It is also possible to lose citizenship if one willfully concealed key information that might affect one's approval process.

Adam Hamawy could well end up sitting in Congress, and that is a prospect that should terrify all American patriots.

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