{"id":435992,"date":"2021-12-16T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=380987"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:38:18","slug":"josh-gottheimers-wild-claims-in-rutgers-speech-are-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/16\/josh-gottheimers-wild-claims-in-rutgers-speech-are-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Gottheimer\u2019s Wild Claims in Rutgers Speech Are Falling Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rep. Josh Gottheimer,<\/u> a New Jersey Democrat, attacked the organization founded by Jamal Khashoggi on Monday as linked to Al Qaeda, echoing allegations that Saudi officials have leveled to muddy the waters around the state-sanctioned butchering of the Washington Post journalist.<\/p>\n
In a speech at Rutgers University, Gottheimer criticized the\u00a0school for hosting Khashoggi\u2019s organization for an event. \u201cAt another event, the same group hosted Democracy for the Arab World Now, DAWN, whose officials have connections to Al Qaeda and Hamas networks,\u201d Gottheimer said<\/a>. \u201cHamas sympathizers, or others with ties to other terrorist organizations involved in 9\/11, have no place on college campuses. Associates of Palestinian Islamic jihad have no place on this college campus. I know we all believe that hate has no home here. It\u2019s time we all practice what we preach.\u201d<\/p>\n During his speech, Gottheimer also claimed that at an earlier protest organized by the Working Families Party,\u00a0somebody had shouted<\/a> \u201cJew!\u201d at him. \u201cNot long ago, I held an event in my district to talk about the benefits of the bipartisan federal infrastructure bill, only to have members of the Working Families Party disrupt the event by screaming ‘Jew\u2019 at me,\u201d he said. While he did not specify which event he was referring to, representatives from\u00a0the\u00a0Working Families Party say they only showed up at one, on September 20.<\/p>\n