The Liar Queen of falestine and MIFTAH

What is on my mind is all the news media talk about the cancellation and then the cynical request by US Rep Rhashid Talib for a "humanitarian visit" that she used to defame Israel.

I am writing this so you may share the knowledge with others. Just WHO is this group that funded the heinous "trip / visit" of US Reps Ilahan Omar and Rashid Talib?
MIFTAH is a Palestinian, non-governmental organization (NGO), established in Jerusalem in December 1998. Its Secretary-General is the long-time PLO spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi.
According to its mission statement MIFTAH's main goal is:

“to engage local and international public opinion” in support of “the Palestinian cause by disseminating the Palestinian narrative and discourse …”. 

In short, Miftah is clearly a propaganda organization that has frequently published numerous accusations to bash the Jewish State of Israeli with “cultural genocide,” “war crimes,” and “apartheid”, through posts in English and Arabic on their web site. MIFTAH also promotes anti-Israeli BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns to defame Israel as well as to circulate articles glorifying terrorism.
"An example of this "Glorification" was in a piece by Johorah Baker;who has been identified as the group’s “Director of the Media and Information Department.” Elsewhere on the Miftah website, she is listed with other titles.

Johorah Baker's article was entitled; “Palestinian Women and the Intifada” from the 5th of July 2006 that focused on Palestinian women who: “decided to join the ranks of the resistance movement."
Now who did she exactly select to glorify? She chose Wafa Idris a 28-year-old, divorced Red Crescent Volunteer who lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah. Idris is glorified as “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” On the 27th of January 2002 shortly before 12:30 PM Idris detonated a 22-pound bomb in the center of Jerusalem outside a shoe store on Jaffa Road that killed her and Pinchas Emanuel Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem. Over 150 people were wounded in this suicide bombing.
Pinchas Tokatli had been returning home from a painting class via the downtown area, where he was going to buy some paints as an amateur painter, when he was murdered, according to police, Pinchas had been standing near the female suicide bomber when she blew herself up. Regretfully he died only a short distance from the very spot on Jaffa Road where, in the 1940s, British soldiers beat him up, damaging his vision.
Another falestinian "heroine" that was chosen for "Glorification" by Johorah Baker was Hanadi Jaradat.
Hanadi blew herself up on Saturday, the 4th of October 2003 in a suicide attack in the beach front Maxim restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The bomb Jaradat wore included metal fragments packed around an explosive core, that sprayed around the restaurant, maximizing lethal effect.
According to Haifa police sources, the aftermath was gruesome, with some of the dead still sitting upright at their tables, while others, including children and babies, were slammed against the walls. Due to the force of the explosion, all that remained of Jaradat was her head. In this particularly gruesome attack 21 innocent Israeli citizens who were peacefully eating, including five members of the Almog family from Haifa and five members of the Zer-Aviv family from Kibbutz Yagur near Haifa-were among those murdered and included four children and four Christian Arab Israelis. The explosive charge she used included metal fragments packed around the explosive core, that sprayed around the restaurant, maximizing lethal effect. Her father Taisir stated: that he was proud of what his daughter had done, and that "I will accept only congratulations for what she did. This was a gift she gave me, the homeland and the Palestinian people. Therefore, I am not crying for her."

Johorah Baker also wrote an article, titled “Let Us Honor Our Own,” which to this day appears on the Miftah website. The article strongly defends the right of the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.
In this particular article she praises the terrorist Dalal al-Mughrabi who led the infamous terrorist attack known in Israel as the Coastal Road Massacre. Dalal Mughrabi and her terrorist group slaughtered 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children and 71 were wounded. One member of the IDF was killed in the assault. The Coastal Road Massacre was the highest casualty toll in any terrorist attack in Israel’s history.

On March 9, 1978, a Palestinian terrorists from the  PLO faction of Fatah, led Dalal Mughrabi, left Lebanon on a ship headed for the Israeli coastline. They were equipped with AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, RPGs- rocket propelled grenades, light mortars and high explosives
In their fear of being discovered by a Israeli Navy patrol early on the morning of March 11th, 1978, they transferred to two Zodiac boats and headed towards the shore. One of the Zodiacs capsized in the rough weather, and two of the terrorists drowned, but the surviving 11 carried on with their mission
The plan made by Abu Jihad was to seize a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and to "kill as many Israelis as possible".
On that fateful morning of March 11th, 1978 Gail Rubin, an American nature photographer, happened to be taking photos that early morning on the beach near Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael. Dalal Mughrabi asked Rubin where they were and immediately after she told them, Mughrabi shot her in the head. Both surviving attackers claimed that Mughrabi shot Rubin, who was a niece of United States Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff.

After the murder of Rubin the terrorist teams approached the coastal highway where they opened fire at unsuspecting passing civilian vehicles. When several vehicles were damaged and abandoned the terrorists blocked the road and hijacked a taxi, killing its occupants. They chased down a passing bus with the taxi and seized it and headed to Tel Aviv. They then hijacked another bus, moving the now 71 hostages to the first bus of the Egged national carrier carrying employees and their families who had set out on a holiday.
The bus was finally stopped by a large police roadblock set up at the Glilot Junction the main highway north of Tel Aviv near Herzliya were the traffic police had spread spiked strips on the road to puncture the bus' tires. Due to the speed at which the attack was transpiring, Israeli counter-terrorism squads had not been able to mobilize quickly enough, and the roadblock was manned by ordinary patrolmen and traffic policemen, who were lightly armed in comparison to the militants and untrained in dealing with hostage situations. A firefight quickly erupted, and police broke the bus' windows and yelled at passengers to jump. Escaping passengers were shot at by Mughrabi. According to the Israeli police, Assaf Hefetz, then head of the Israeli Police counter-terrorism unit, arrived at the scene before his unit, and stormed the bus, killing two terrorists. Hefetz sustained a shoulder injury during the battle, and was later awarded the Israeli Police Medal of Courage. The Palestinians allege that Mughrabi raised the Palestinian flag and declared the establishment of a Palestinian state, but no flag was ever found.
The MIFTAH article “Let Us Honor Our Own," from August 29, 2011 strongly defends the right of the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists and she denounces Israel for objecting to such salaries and for objecting to the PA’s policy of naming parks, streets, and other venues after Mugrabi and other terrorists.
The Palestinian Authority dedicated the public square in the city of al-Bireh to Mughrabi and it bears a plaque that depicts Mughrabi cradling a rifle against a map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In addition, the Palestinian Authority launched a seminar called "Martyr Dalal Mughrabi Camp," to be held in Jericho. In May 2017, the Palestinian Authority via its organisation Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) named a women's center in the town of Burqa after Mughrabi and celebrated her as a role model.
Here’s what Ms. Johara Baker wrote about Mughrabi:

“When Palestinians named a square after Dalal Al Mughrabi, a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978, Israel was up in arms, claiming the Palestinians should not be allowed to name streets or squares after ‘terrorists.’

"… Countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of others. If the Palestinians want to name a street after one of their national heroes, regardless of how this person is perceived by Israel, that is their business.”

Baker’s use of quotation marks around the term “terrorist” in her article makes it clear that she rejects that description. Baker writes that the murders Mughrabi carried out were “a military operation” so,  according to MIFTAH the murderer of a US senator’s niece is “a Palestinian fighter” and a “hero.”

In addition to the praises and "Glorification" of terrorists there is the the atrociously antisemitic canard by Nawaf al-Zaru who published an article lambasting then President Obama that repeated the infamous blood libel against Jews.

Or “Passover” and “Jewish blood rituals..?!Much of the chatter and gossip about historical Jewish blood rituals in Europe are real and not fake as they claim; the Jews used the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover …"

This disgusting antisemitic myth was the cause for many deadly pogroms against Jews in medieval Europe, resulting in the murder of thousands and the brutal elimination of entire communities. In the 19th century, accusations increased, expanding as far as Damascus, and also fueled Nazi propaganda, including in Der Sturmer.
This vulgar antisemitic libel, like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have been widespread in Arab and Muslim media, including in the publications of “mainstream” NGOs, such as Miftah, and is included in a deadly mix of Arab and Neo-Nazi anti-Israel propaganda and incitement.

Miftah has acquired a visibility and impact as the result of massive funding received from donors who, while publicly condemning antisemitism and incitement, turn a blind eye to its practice.

In 2011 (the latest available report), Miftah’s funder/enablers include the European Union (via the Anna Lindh Foundation), the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Italy, and Austria, as well as two official German political foundations (the Heinrich Boell and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung), and the UK branch of Oxfam (itself a recipient of state funding). As well as, the US-based taxpayer supported International Republican Institute,which provided money between 2007 and 2012.
Surely, European and American government officials who approved funding this and other such NGOs should have considered the highly antisemitic much less virulent anti-Israel / Zionism hatred expressed by the web site and their representatives.
Similarly, the members of parliaments; who approved the budgets in most cases, without access to any of the details, (which EU and other officials have labeled top secret), and the journalists, who showed no interest in the virulent hatred and its consequences, share in this moral failure.

Funders, particularly those who use the money provided by taxpayers, are also enablers, and are thereby accountable for all of the activities, including antisemitism, of the organizations in which they invest. The massive damage, that has already been done by European governments, enablers and US NGO groups as a result irresponsible support for Miftah and its counterparts, is immeasurable, and every additional grant does further harm and strengthens the abysmal hatred.