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Aber Kawas claims that her activism began when her illegal alien father was deported after being arrested for a crime in New Jersey. Now she’s Zohran Mamdani’s first endorsement.
Kawas had described Fahad Hashmi, convicted of providing material support to Al Qaeda, and the Hamas fundraisers known as the ‘Holy Land 5” as “imprisoned heroes” and “living martyrs”. (Mamdani had previously also expressed his support for the jailed Hamas fundraisers.)
“A father of a friend, a brother of a friend, a cousin of a friend, a friend of a friend- from Fahad Hashmi, to the Holy Land 5, Tarek Mahena, or Muhammad Soltan, ect., sometimes it really strikes me how little of a degree of separation we all have to these imprisoned heroes. I often reflect about how in a more just world these names would not have just been headlines to me; I would have probably met them, organized with them, or even visited their households,” the Islamist activist backed by Mamdani and the DSA to represent a Latino district wrote.
During the New York City mayoral election, there had been some debate about whether Mamdani was a Marxist or an Islamist. Mamdani has answered that question with his first endorsement in which he backed Aber Kawas, a career Islamist activist for the State Assembly seat in the 34th district, over a Latino DSA member in a mostly Hispanic area in Queens.
Despite the district’s current DSA Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas putting her Latino DSA chief up for the role, Mamdani and the DSA went with the Islamist instead because, according to Kawas’ director, “we have to actually run a Palestinian Arab in this race because we need to draw the fire of the Israeli lobby” so that the Jews “don’t run things.”
Latinos and socialism have to take a back seat to the Islamic conflict with the Jews.
Kawas, like Mamdani, had just moved to Queens a year before the race to take over the borough. Her qualifications have nothing to do with the Latino district that she and Mamdani have carpetbagged their way into, just her Islamist credentials through Linda Sarsour’s local Islamist group, through Muslim Brotherhood groups such as CAIR and the MSA student group.
And the story of her father’s deportation.
According to Kawas, her illegal alien father was detained after “a Muslim informant turned him in for committing a petty crime” while at other times she claimed that he was deported “due to Islamaphobic and anti-immigrant legislation”. After spending three years in prison, he was finally deported back to his home in Jordan while her mother was forced to “learn English”.
The ‘Palestinian’ Kawas family, Aber, her sister Magdolyn Kawas, and their mother, Manal Abu Samaha or Manal Kawas, got involved in anti-American activism and protested against Trump.
Both the Kawas daughters became organizers with the Arab-American Association, headed by Linda Sarsour, who had co-founded the Muslim Democratic Club of New York where Mamdani had gotten his start. Sarsour recently boasted, “I would be honored to die a martyr”. Sarsour, a Bill de Blasio ally, had seen over $4 million in taxpayer money pour into the Arab-American Association. Aber Kawas became the face of the Islamist group’s activism against national security, claiming that her father had been “torn away” from his family for no reason at all.
According to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, not yet in Congress, writing an op-ed for the Nation of Islam (a violent racist hate group led by Louis Farrakhan), Aber’s family “came to the United States from Jordan when the first Iraq War erupted and decided to remain in the U.S. rather than return to a war-stricken region” and he was arrested for “putting his name on the title form of a car that didn’t belong to him, but to a friend who needed his help.” But, according to a documentary about how hard Muslims have it in America, he was deported for “selling out-of-state cigarettes”.
These three different stories are inconsistent and none of them would have normally involved police surveillance or an “undercover informant”, but Muslim cigarette smuggling rings have had ties to Islamic terrorist groups and terror funding.
The actual filing in the Kawas case reveals that Aber’s father had been convicted of an unspecified crime in New Jersey even while he was facing deportation for overstaying his visa. Abdul Kawas initially agreed to go back home, but then spent years challenging the removal.
In the process, the case seems to have implied that the entire family was illegally here. Abdul Kawas sued to claim permanent resident status because “his wife was the beneficiary of an approved employment-based visa petition” but it turned out “she had never actually worked for the establishment that had been the basis for her labor certification in the United States. According to Aber, “my mom had to work for the first time (since my father’s deportation). But before that, she had to learn English.” Aber’s mother had received resident status based on an employment visa, but she had never worked and never even spoke English.
Neither of Aber’s parents were legally here and therefore neither are their children.
Aber Kawas followed a typical pathway through Islamist organizations, she was a member of the notorious Muslim Students’ Association chapter at CUNY, which has been the subject of antisemitism investigations, described the Muslim American Society, another Brotherhood group linked to terrorists, as her “second home”, she interned at CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood group that celebrated the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, worked as an advocacy director at Sarsour’s Arab American Association, which receives funding from Qatar, and then the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: a fiscal sponsor for a BDS group that celebrated the Oct 7 attacks.
When Zohran Mamdani introduced a BDS bill in the state assembly that would have shut down most Jewish organizations, Kawas was described as a member of the steering committee behind it through the Campaign for Palestinian Rights. After the Oct 7 massacres, she falsely claimed that “Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans feel like they are experiencing the level of hate and Islamophobia that existed after 9/11 and during the Iraq war.”
Kawas hailed a mural of terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled and denounced Israel as a country created by “European Zionists” based on the “ethnic cleansing” of the Arab Muslim settler population. She moved to South Africa for a degree in Islamic Liberation Theology.
After blaming 9/11 on ‘colonialism’ and ‘Islamophobia’, Aber Kawas colonized and settled a Latino neighborhood in Queens and is trying to push out the Latino candidate to take it over.
Mamdani could have chosen his own movement or the Latinos who backed him. Instead he chose Aber Kawas, because he’s not a Marxist or a Socialist, he didn’t run to provide free buses or government grocery stores, but to advance the cause of Islam and its war on everyone else.
Not satisfied with taking over the New York City mayor’s office, Mamdani chose as his first endorsement: a woman who called an imprisoned Al Qaeda terrorist associate her hero.
