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“From my time in the Obama Administration, military service, and educating the next generation – I’ve dedicated my life to service. I’m ready to rematch Darrell Issa and complete the mission: Defend democracy, fight for a government that works for working people, and invest in an America that empowers future generations to live, work and retire with dignity.”
That is from the campaign website of “U.S. Navy officer, Palestinian-Mexican American, Ammar Campa-Najjar,” as he runs against Republican Darrell Issa. There’s more about Ammar that people should know, starting with family connections.
The Palestinian-Mexican American running for Congress is the grandson of Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, mastermind of Black September terrorists who murdered and mutilated 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. In 1973, Israeli commandos killed the Munich mastermind and his son Yasser al-Najjar, became a fugitive. The Palestinian-Mexican American running for Congress is the son of Yasser al-Najjar, who claims his father “migrated from the Middle East on a student visa” and “met a Mexican-American lady named Abigail and raised a family in San Diego County.” Sounds good but there’s a problem here.
Back in 2003, Linda Gradstein of National Public Radio interviewed Yasser al-Najjar at his office in Gaza, where he served with the Palestinian Authority. Yasser was married with four children but his wife and children were not named. Son Ammar has not documented Yasser’s move to the United States, or claims that he earned an MBA from San Diego State and started several clothing boutiques.
“I was born in America, the son of a Mexican mother and Muslim father who migrated from the Middle East to America on a student visa,” Ammar told The Hill in 2017. The “Mexican-Palestinian American and former Obama campaign and administration official,” as the author was billed, failed to mention the Munich connection but did say “I grew up in the crosshairs of the Israeli-Palestinian war in Gaza, returning to the U.S. in 2001.” This claim raises another issue.
Why anybody would move from San Diego, “America’s finest city,” to Gaza is hard to fathom. Ammar told the San Diego Union-Tribune he “lived in Gaza from ages 8 to 12.” If he was born in 1989, that would put Ammar’s Gaza stretch from 1997 to 2001. In Gaza he witnessed a “U.S.-funded war” in which “my mom, stepmom, dad and younger brothers hid in the dark corner of a cold kitchen floor as Apache helicopters and F-16s leveled surrounding buildings and carpet-bombed the town for hours.”
Note the joint presence of “mom and stepmom.” Ammar has two mommies, and a daddy who allegedly “migrated to the USA on a student visa” but is also a Palestinian Authority official in Gaza. His own time in Gaza, Ammar told Rolling Stone, was “a very Obamaesque, Dreams of Your Father, situation.” He was able to return because “I had a winning lottery ticket, an American passport, that allowed me to come home to San Diego.”
In February 2018 it emerged that “Grandson of Munich Massacre Terrorist Is Running for Congress,” in a report from Haaretz, an Israeli publication. America’s vaunted “investigative journalists” failed to uncover the back story of the Palestinian-Mexican American who served in the Obama administration. The suddenly exposed candidate told reporters “I hoped this tragedy wouldn’t be politicized.”
As La Prensa San Diego revealed, the candidate once went by the name Ammar Yasser Najjar and only changed it to Ammar “Campa-Najjar” when he ran for Congress as a Palestinian Arab-American, and other variations. The candidate never missed an opportunity to claim he was born in San Diego County and joked with reporters that he was a “happy Campa.” Rolling Stone billed him as a “rockstar Democratic candidate.” Composite character president Obama endorsed him and CAIR had his back.
In 2018, the Palestinian-Mexican American ran as a progressive but lost to embattled Republican Duncan Hunter. In 2020 Najjar ran as a moderate conservative and lost to Darrell Issa. In 2022 the Latino Arab-American ran for mayor of Chula Vista but lost to Republican John McAnn. So the three-time loser goes and joins the Navy.
“Only in America can the son of a Mexican woman from the barrio and an Arab man from a conflict zone have the freedom to chart his own course, serve his country, and become a Navy Officer for the greatest military the world has ever known,” the Palestinian-Mexican told People magazine. He quoted Winston Churchill that as a reservist he was “twice the citizen.”
Adrian Eng-Gastelum, a campaign strategist for Joe Biden and adviser to Biden’s HHS boss Xavier Becerra, told People that “Ammar’s story encapsulates what it’s like to run for office in America as a young, first-generation person of color.” The journey “from Gaza and the barrio to a congressional candidate smeared by disinformation to a Navy Officer” is all about “resilience in the face of racism and xenophobia that reinforces our shared hope that we can live up to the American Dream.”
Two months after Ammar joined the Navy, on October 7, 2023, Hamas perpetrated the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. On October 15, hundreds of pro-Hamas demonstrators gathered in San Diego, but if the newly minted naval officer showed up he did not speak to reporters. As it turned out, the Navy was not the Palestinian-Mexican’s last port of call.
Last fall he enrolled at Georgetown University to pursue a master’s degree in conflict resolution. As the Times of San Diego noted, Campa Najjar “typically accompanies Rep. Sara Jacobs to Washington when the House of Representatives is in session, returning to San Diego on weekends and when Congress is in recess.” Sara Jacobs, one of the top 15 wealthiest members of Congress, is the granddaughter of self-made billionaire Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm, a tech company with assets of more than $50 billion.
As La Prensa of San Diego notes, the Latino-Arab American lives at Jacobs’ home and drives her white Tesla. So the San Diego Democrat “from the conflict zone” is all set on the money side. The graduate student claims to be teaching government at Georgetown, which does not list him as an instructor, teacher or professor. Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan, spurred him to run for Congress again.
“I’m deeply fulfilled by my work teaching government at Georgetown University and serving my country in uniform,” the Democrat posted last October 30, accompanied by a photo of himself in uniform. “My whole life’s mission – a journey through poverty to the middle class, to the Middle East and back, has been an act of defiance against a system that tells us that person’s zip code determines their destiny,” and so on. That month, on the second anniversary of the 10/7 attack, the Munichian candidate posted on Instagram:
As a Palestinian-Mexican American I mourn the loss of Israel’s youth on that fateful day, just as I despair for the innocent children in Gaza killed throughout Netanyahu’s military campaign. No one child’s life is more precious than another’s. In truth what these past two years demonstrate is that the lives and futures of Israelis and Palestinians are inextricably bound. Acknowledging the atrocities on October 7 doesn’t negate the atrocities in Gaza. They should both weigh on our conscience.
No mention or condemnation of Hamas, and no word of the whereabouts of his father Yasser al-Najjar, the official with the Palestinian Authority who spoke to NPR in 2003. According to the All4Palestine site, Yasser Muhammed al-Najjar is “a Palestinian politician and diplomat. His father, Abu Yusuf al-Najjar, was the commander-in-chief of the Fatah Storm Forces and a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.” Yasser al-Najjar was appointed ambassador to Norway, Iceland and Albania before retiring in 2018. The site bears no photo of the man his son says came to America on a student visa.
The election of Uganda-born Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York surely boosted the Palestinian-Mexican American’s confidence. This month the California Democrat denounced “the recent escalation of state-based violence” and called for Kristi Noem to “resign immediately.”
Like Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, this candidate will say and do anything to get what he wants. He knows that eleven other Democrats seek to unseat Darrell Issa, so the Palestinian-Mexican American may not get to face the voters in November. As the election awaits, Najjar’s utterly unbelievable story deserves a serious investigation, starting with forensic document examiners at the State Department.
When did the fugitive Yasser al-Najjar “migrate” to the United States on a student visa? Do State Department records back up his son’s claim? When did the visa expire, and when did Yasser return to Gaza? His son’s trip from San Diego to Gaza, and back again, should also yield documentation. That “winning lottery ticket,” a US passport, should show up in the records. Did any of that documentation emerge when the composite character president, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, brought the Palestinian-Mexican American aboard? Do the records show any evidence of tampering or blocking of access?
San Diego State could show records of Yasser Najjar’s degree, and city records could reveal the clothing shops he supposedly operated – if they don’t have an existential problem. What do city and state records show of Yasser’s marriage to sweet Abigail? What do state and city records show of the birth of Yasser’s son Ammar? What is all this business of a “mom and step-mom”? Are the parties willing to confirm their claims with a DNA test? And don’t forget the United States Navy a prime target for Islamic terrorists.
In 1985, 13 years after Munich, Hezbollah terrorists hijacked a commercial jet and singled out Navy diver Robert Stethem solely because he was a member of the United States military. Stethem fought back and the terrorists beat him before shooting the American and dumping his body on the tarmac. The American’s face was so deformed he had to be identified through fingerprints and medical records.
In 2000 in Aden, terrorists detonated explosives near the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors and wounding more than 30 others. By his own account, the Palestinian-Mexican American was in Gaza at the time. What did the Gazans, victims of a “US-funded war,” say about that attack?
Did the United States Navy seek any documentation of Ammar’s past? Did Naval Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), FBI or CIA have any input on the matter? Did anyone in the Biden administration – effectively the composite character’s third term as David Samuels contended in “The Obama Factor” – pull strings for him? How can a reserve naval officer glide so easily to Georgetown and pose as a teacher? And so on.
If officials in the Navy, State Department and Congress do not probe these questions they are not worthy to hold their jobs. For the third time, the Palestinian-Mexican seeks to represent the people of California – or is it the people of Palestine? His unbelievable story makes a case that all candidates should submit to DNA tests to confirm that they are who they say they are. Otherwise someone who shouldn’t even be in the country could possibly gain election.
The Munichian candidate, darling of the Democrat establishment, has his eyes on the prize. Whatever happens in the June primary or November, he’s sure to return.
