(Free Beacon) Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman’s (Ill.) decision to bribe a local Palestinian activist out of her 2020 primary race hasn’t just led to ethics issues — it also put a terrorist sympathizer in charge of her campaign’s foreign policy.
Last June, Newman began paying Palestinian activist and Columbia College Chicago adjunct professor Iymen Chehade roughly $10,000 a month as her campaign’s “director of foreign policy and research,” financial disclosures show. The hire came about a year and a half after Newman promised Chehade a six-figure job to keep him out of her competitive primary race, a bribe that sparked an ongoing ethics investigation.
Years before he joined Newman’s campaign, Chehade helped facilitate a 2015 panel that brought Rasmea Odeh to campus through his position as faculty adviser for his college’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. A convicted terrorist, Odeh was sentenced to life in prison for her role in a 1969 bombing that killed two college students in Jerusalem — but Chehade praised her as “extraordinary” in a now-deleted tweet.
