A vocal anti-Israel activist, who has made several donations to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s, D-Mich., House campaigns, mourned the assassination of a top Hamas leader on Wednesday, saying his “martyrdom is not in vain.”
Zahra Billoo, a disgraced former Women’s March leader and the executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in San Francisco, took to social media after it was reported that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran, prompting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to vow “revenge” for the attack.
“Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it,” Billoo said in the first part of her post, appearing to quote the Quran.
“Tonight, we mourn Ismail himself but know his martyrdom is not in vain,” she continued,using a controversial phrase pushed by anti-Israel activists to mean the elimination of Israel. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will …