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Osama Abu Irshaid is the National Director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and serves on the board of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations.
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- Osama abu irshaid palestine syria and turkey 15th mas icna convention
- Osama abu irshaid mas icna convention
- Career
- Views
- References
Irshaid completed his Ph.D. thesis on Hamas at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He also founded and served as the editor in chief of Al-Meezan newspaper, an Arabic language newspaper published in the United States. Abu Irshaid has frequently appeared on Arabic satellite networks such as Al Jazeera, Syrian TV, Al-Alam, and Al Hiwar TV as a commentator on Palestinian and Middle Eastern affairs and U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
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Career
Abu Irshaid was listed as a Research Fellow at the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) in a 1999 article published in the Middle East Affairs Journal, a publication of UASR. The article was titled “Occupied Palestine or Independent Israel: ‘The Right to Existence’ After More Than Fifty Years of Occupation”. The article argued against past peace agreements with “Zionists”, including the 1993 Oslo Accords. The academic journal published by UASR has been said to be “involved in passing Hamas communiques to the United States-based Muslim Brotherhood community and relaying messages from that community back to Hamas”. UASR is also part of the group of organizations that are tied back to the Palestine Committee, a now defunct network created by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance Hamas’s agenda in the United States. The Hamas support network was shut down in the United States between 2001 and 2008.
Beginning in 2002, Osama Abu Irshaid served on the board of the American Muslim Society (AMS), another name for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which served as a propaganda outlet for Hamas. Abu Irshaid previous served as the editor of IAP’s Arabic periodical Al-Zaitounah, which published Hamas propaganda. The periodical also published advertisements for charities that were tied to terrorism, including the Holy Land Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation (GRF) and the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF).
In 2009, The United States Institute of Peace published a controversial study co-authored by Abu Irshaid and Paul Scham called “Hamas: Ideological Rigidity and Political Flexibility”. The study suggests that Hamas has undergone political and ideological shifts over time that make it possible for it to coexist with Israel without violence. The report analyzes Hamas’s statements and actions from an Islamic point of view, using the framework of Sharia law, on which Hamas is based, to define which actions it can and cannot take.
Abu Irshaid currently serves on the national board of American Muslims for Palestine, which is one of several groups that carries out lobbying, fundraising, and propaganda campaigns that were carried out previously by the Palestine Committee.
In 2014, Irshaid helped form the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), which is an umbrella organization of prominent American Muslim organizations seeking to unify the approach, agenda and vision of the Muslim Community. He is currently a board member of the organization. Several of the groups involved in the USCMO and its founding members have been linked to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other extremist groups and opinions.
Views
During 2014 and 2015, Irshaid frequently openly supported Hamas on his Twitter and Facebook accounts, applauding Hamas’s war tactics against Israel, and criticizing Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. His articles, speeches and statements are often anti-Israeli and he has publicly defended what others have criticized as “Jew-hating” bus advertisements paid for by American Muslims for Palestine.