{"id":15446,"date":"2024-02-12T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/judicial-group-targets-antisemite-biden-nominee-with-alleged-ties-to-terrorist-sympathizers\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:46:49","slug":"judicial-group-targets-antisemite-biden-nominee-with-alleged-ties-to-terrorist-sympathizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/judicial-group-targets-antisemite-biden-nominee-with-alleged-ties-to-terrorist-sympathizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial group targets \u2018antisemite\u2019 Biden nominee with alleged ties to terrorist sympathizers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), a conservative judicial advocacy organization based in the nation\u2019s capital, is rolling out a digital ad campaign against one of President Biden\u2019s controversial nominees who has alleged ties to 9\/11 hijacker sympathizers.<\/p>\n

The advertising campaign from JCN \u2013 slated to run in Pennsylvania, Montana and Washington, D.C. \u2013 consists of an initial buy of $50,000 and specifically targets Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who was recently nominated by Biden to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.<\/p>\n

The ads appearing in Pennsylvania and Montana urge Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., to vote \u2018no\u2019 on Mangi\u2019s nomination to a lifetime appointment on the federal court and accuse the judicial nominee of being an \u2018antisemite\u2019 who is far too \u2018extreme.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018President Biden wants to remake the courts with the most extreme judges he can find,\u2019 the narrator states in the ad. \u2018But antisemite Adeel Mangi might be the worst of all.\u2019<\/p>\n

The ad goes on to highlight Mangi\u2019s tenure as a member of the board of advisers for the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers Law School from 2019 to 2023.<\/p>\n

JCN said the \u2018extremist organization\u2019 Mangi was affiliated with \u2018teaches students to hate Israel, to hate America, and to support global terrorism.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Mangi\u2019s organization blamed America for the Sept. 11 terror attacks and has hosted speakers with terrorist connections, including a convicted terrorist,\u2019 the narrator continued. \u2018Mangi\u2019s organization even blamed Israel for the Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7. When Mangi was given opportunities to condemn these hateful views, he refused to do so.\u2019<\/p>\n

JCN president Carrie Severino blasted Mangi\u2019s ties to the \u2018radical, antisemitic group\u2019 in a statement to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is bad enough that President Biden has appointed activist judges who can\u2019t identify major constitutional provisions and are hostile to law enforcement. But now Biden wants to give a life-tenure judicial position to a lawyer with ties to a radical, antisemitic group that blames the United States for\u00a09\/11\u00a0and teaches students to hate Israel and America,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018In a time when antisemitism is on the rise, how can alleged moderates like Sens. Jon Tester and Bob Casey rubber stamp this kind of nominee for life tenure? There is no place on the Third Circuit for this disdain of our nation\u2019s principles and the rule of law,\u2019 Severino added. \u2018Senate Democrats should be ashamed of their support for Adeel Mangi and President Biden should promptly withdraw his nomination.\u2019<\/p>\n

Since being nominated, Mangi has garnered significant criticism from GOP lawmakers for his personal and financial affiliation with the university research center that has been accused of giving a platform to \u2018terrorist sympathizers.\u2019<\/p>\n

Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans announced they are investigating the funding of the center and insisted its \u2018platforming of radical ideologues\u2019 was \u2018troublesome.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The work of the Center, its promotion of terrorist sympathizers, and its platforming of radical ideologues is troubling to us as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,\u2019 Republicans on the committee said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

The center, according to members of the committee, co-sponsored an event titled \u2018Whose Narrative? 20 Years since September 11, 2001\u2019 on the 20th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Additionally, members of the committee noted that the center hosted an event titled \u2018Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine\u2019 three days after the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas militants. Center faculty affiliate Dr. Lara Sheehi opened the talk by saying, \u2018Zionist settler colonialism is a structure that is the provocation,\u2019 according to the committee.<\/p>\n

The center also held a December 2023 event titled \u2018The West, Israel and Settler Colonization of Palestine\u2019 with Professor Joseph Massad, who lauded the Oct. 7 massacre in \u2018jubilant\u2019 terms in an article that was published one day after Hamas invaded Israel.<\/p>\n

Massad wrote at the time, \u2018No less awesome were the scenes witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the news, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking through Israel\u2019s prison fence or gliding over it by air.\u2026 No less striking was the capture of some of Israel\u2019s colonial soldiers and officers in their underwear while sleeping.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mangi\u2019s nomination and affiliation with the center has also raised concerns from 10 House Republicans who represent districts over which the Third Circuit Court of Appeals presides.<\/p>\n

Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., and nine of his colleagues from Pennsylvania and New Jersey raised \u2018grave concerns\u2019 over Mangi\u2019s nomination in a letter to Biden last month.<\/p>\n

The center has a \u2018deep history of amplifying antisemitic speech, terrorist propaganda, and anti-American rhetoric,\u2019 the lawmakers said in the letter.<\/p>\n

\u2018During his tenure as a board member, the Center supported efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel by pushing for the boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) movement and calling for resistance in Palestine,\u2019 they wrote. \u2018In 2021, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey stated that one of the Center\u2019s events sought to \u2018delegitimize Israel and to push their antisemitic agenda into a mainstream discourse.\u2019 The Jewish News Center, among other organizations, labeled a 2021 center event as \u2018pro-Hamas\u2019 and a \u2018terrorist-whitewashing webinar.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Like their Senate colleagues, the GOP House lawmakers also said the center has a record of sympathizing with radical terrorist organizations and pointed to the 9\/11 anniversary event it hosted<\/p>\n

The Republicans informed the president that Sami Al-Arian, a convicted felon who provided support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was a featured speaker. At the event, Al-Arian blamed the 9\/11 attack on the U.S. and its support for Israel.<\/p>\n

\u2018As your Administration is aware, PIJ is a foreign terrorist organization and was involved in the atrocities committed against Israel on October 7, 2023,\u2019 they wrote.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers went on to argue that \u2018while Mr. Mangi\u2019s affiliation and financial support for the Center is cause for alarm, we also find it deeply troubling that he has failed to denounce the Center and its radical ideology.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018On numerous occasions in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mangi was given ample opportunity to denounce examples of antisemitic rhetoric espoused by the Center,\u2019 they said. \u2018He failed to do so in his written responses and oral testimony to the committee every single time.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mangi advanced out of the committee on an 11-10 party-line vote. His nomination now awaits a vote by the full Senate.<\/p>\n

Last month, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital that \u2018President Biden is deeply proud\u2019 to have nominated Mangi, calling him \u2018an indisputably qualified and experienced attorney who has lived the American dream and is devoted to our Constitution and the rule of law.\u2019<\/p>\n

He called the Republicans\u2019 criticisms \u2018vile, unconscionable smears,\u2019 noting that they have \u2018been discredited by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, among many others.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bates also accused the GOP lawmakers of applying a \u2018religious litmus test,\u2019 targeting Mangi for his Muslim faith \u2013 which, he noted, the Constitution \u2018forbids.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mangi, a New Jersey resident and partner at the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, has been praised by Democrats for possibly being the nation\u2019s first Muslim American federal appellate judge.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mangi is a standout figure in New Jersey\u2019s legal landscape. It speaks volumes that his exceptional legal abilities are only exceeded by his character and unwavering commitment to fairness in the administration of justice,\u2019 Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said in a statement last month.<\/p>\n

The Coalition for Jewish Values, the Zionist Organization of America, Americans Against Antisemitism and others have opposed Mangi\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

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