The “Liberated Casbah of Basel Al-Araj”
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Anti-Israel protestors who took over the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics called for launching a nationwide insurgency and domestic terrorism campaign.
Ryan Mauro | Capitol Research | 5-23-24 | Condensed and Edited | Full Report
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Shortly after the building was taken over, a declaration appeared on social media, spread by pro-terrorism and anarchist supporters. The demonstrators announced they had renamed the Institute of Politics “the Liberated Casbah of Basel Al-Araj” in honor of a Palestinian terrorist killed in 2017 during an Israeli counterterrorism operation, whom Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) subsequently honored. Al-Araj had praised the “guerilla warfare” of the “Palestinian resistance,” referring to fighters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza, such as the Taliban, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
A Declaration of War. The extremist protestors’ published statement is titled “Bring the Intifada Home,” a call for Palestinian terror campaigns and a clear call for a violent uprising.
The statement explicitly says they are now launching a broader militant campaign aimed at destroying what it sees as the infrastructure of oppression and U.S. involvement with Israel. Named targets include the police and defense contractors and complicit universities, lawyers, and politicians.
The remarks leave no room to deny their violent intentions: “Those who make war do not deserve peace. The Palestinian resistance continues to escalate against the Zionist state and its institutions, and so are we.”
Their statement of principles makes their intentions clearer, including:
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- “We must escalate our actions against all governments, institutions, and corporations who participate in, profit off of, and enable genocide. There must be consequences to their property, income, reputation, privacy, and safety.
- “We embrace many methods of attacking our enemies. Whatever is effective, destructive, fun, creative, creates leverage, disrupts power, or changes minds is welcome. We refuse to police and surveil each other and remember the enemies are the state, the pigs, and the war profiteers.”
- “We support engagement in individual and collective self-defense. Under conditions of domestic warfare, settler-colonialism, and fascist violence, engaging in self-defense is necessary for maintaining our survival. We cannot allow the state or its functionaries to have a monopoly on violence.”
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The statement also refers to the U.S. as “Turtle Island,” a revolutionary far-Left term that asserts that the U.S. is an occupier of Native American land and has no right to exist. They seek to wipe the U.S. off the map just as they and their Hamas colleagues seek to wipe Israel off the map.
The leading suspects in the building takeover are UChicago United for Palestine, UChicago Jews for a Free Palestine, and the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, whose president, Ghassan Barakat, is a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official. Additionally, Students for Justice in Palestine, co-founded by Senan Shaqdeh, a fighter for the PFLP terrorist group, not only supported the Hamas-led massacre on October 7 but also declared itself to be a part of Hamas, not just a supporter.
The Intifada declaration of war proves the anti-Israel protest movement has morphed into a broader seditious insurgency that is intent on committing acts of domestic terrorism.
Chicago’s DePaul University posted a collection of screenshots, videos, and images showing how the protestors had armed themselves with knives, cement bricks, a bowling ball, a pellet gun, and boards with long nails and screws. Other posts show protestors engaging in battery, gesturing death threats, praising the 10/7 attack, threatening the safety of Jews, exalting the spokesman for Hamas, and calling for the murder of billionaires. Chilling Instagram Post Here>>
Militant protestors are distributing guides on various acts of violence and sabotage, arguing for broadening their campaign to “impose their will rather than just influence opinion and policy.” They aim to dismantle the U.S. and Israeli military alliance and capitalism through numerous small attacks over a short period, seeing this as more feasible than large-scale operations like 9/11. The U.S. is entering a heightened threat environment, with militants' capabilities likely to grow quickly.
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