(Free Beacon) House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.) is silent on whether he will return a $3,000 donation from a prominent Palestinian activist who called Israel a “parasite” that “sucks the blood of America.”
Osama Abuirshaid, the executive director of American Muslims for Palestine, during an interview with Jordan’s Yarmouk TV on Sept. 22 described Israel as “a parasite living off the American body” that “sucks the blood of America and scatters its attention,” according to a translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Abuirshaid, who has a history of anti-Semitic comments, donated $3,000 to Meeks in March, according to Federal Election Commission records. A spokeswoman for Meeks did not respond to a request for comment.
