The besieged United States Agency for International Development (USAID) paid $ 3.3 million to an organization led by a rapper who released anti -Semitic songs, claimed a Republican legislator.
New York Rep. Mike Lawler, 38, hit the Tomorrow's youth organization, an NGO that helps the Palestinian youth, with the Multimillion-Dollar subsidy in 2022, he said in a press release.
The Republican called the executive director of the organization, born in America Raffoul Saadeh, a 'vicious anti-Israël rapper who argues for Jewish hatred in his music'.
'[He] Has a long history of anti -Semitism, in which Palestinian experience is compared to that of the Jews in Auschwitz, “said the release.
The legislator quoted three songs from Saadeh – scars from Gaza, from the ghetto, and tears about Palestine – in which the rapper “Israel and the Jewish people connect,” according to the statement.
Lawler connected to three apparent music videos for the songs, but none of them was available from Thursday morning.
The release was also linked to a report of March 2024 by the New York Sun, which stated that Saadeh's Song Song Side signs of Gaza include the text: “Auschwitz Reincarnated brought back to life by the victims burned by the Nazis.”
There was also a video for the song that was posted but then online 'ends with a call for violence'.
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Representative Mike Lawler, 38, (photo) hit USAID to offer tomorrow's youth organization, an NGO that helps Palestinian young people, with a $ 3.3 million subsidy in 2022
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The Republican called the executive director of the organization, born in America Raffoul Saadeh (photo), a 'vicious anti-Israël rapper who argues for Jewish hatred in his music'.
Dailymail.com has contacted Saadeh for comments.
In his song from 2014 tears about Palestine, viewed by DailyMail.com, Saadeh raged: 'Imagine that Arabian Anne Frank writes her diary / Imagine Arab babies are thrown into Infernos / The Holocaust of Palestine / What a Vicious Circle.
“My anger runs deep and my emotions are numb, so a middle finger for that solider who holds that gun.”
Later in the song, Saadeh rips: “I can't forget my brother, the past, I see him in Paradise / I hope to see the corpse of his murderer by parasites.”
Lawler's New York District is one of the most Jewish in the country. The congress himself is a practicing Catholic.
“USAID gives $ 3.3 million to an organization led by a vicious anti-Israel rapper is outside of pale and emblematic for the problems that can exist when transparency is lacking in our government,” Lawler added in a press release.
'The executive director of the Youth of Tomorrow compares Palestinian experience with that of the Jews in Auschwitz is disgusting and calls the decision -making process in question on the USAID.
“We cannot allow anti-Semitism and the anti-Israeli preference that has been unbridled by the UN and other international organizations to infect our institutions here in the United States.”
Lawler called on the Trump government to look at USAID to 'get to the bottom why the Biden administration finished Jewish hatred'.
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'[He] Has a long history of anti -Semitism, in which Palestinian experience is compared to that of the Jews in Auschwitz, “said the press release of the congressman that said
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The press release pointed to a report from 2024 by the New York Sun, which claimed that the Song Scars of Gaza from the Georgetown graduated the text: 'Auschwitz Reincarnated brought back to life by the victims burned by the Nazis'
In 2015, Saahed – who was born in Connecticut before he moved to Palestine in seven months old – was a member of BBC to talk about the conflict.
The Christian Palestinian said he was “discriminated against by the system.”
“Here I see soldiers, I see armies being taught to distinguish between an Arab and an Israelian,” he told the outlet. “That's what I'm upset.”
He also called for Israel's mistakes to be 'proclaimed'.
“If you say that Palestinian leadership makes mistakes, Israeli leadership is also filled with mistakes,” he told BBC almost a year after releasing tears of Palestine. 'The system makes us [Palestinians and Israelis] hate each other.
'And I feel that it is the gap we need to be negative. Every person can love each other; Everyone wants to live, laugh and love, but you have to talk to the other side.
“And when there is a wall that separates two groups of people, you can't talk to the other side.”
The Trump government dismissed the Inspector General of USAID only one day after he had given a sharp warning about the state of affairs within the organization.
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Saahed is now the executive director of the Youth of Tomorrow
Inspector General Paul Martin was dumped on Tuesday via an e -mail from the Deputy Director of the Office of Presidential Staff, who said his role was “ended, immediately in force.
A day before, Martin had released a report in which it was warned that President Trump's dismantling by President Trump, with the help of the DOGE led by Elon Musk, had made it anything but impossible for $ 8.2 billion in non-stressed humanitarian funds to check.
Inspectors general are generally independently financed watchdogs associated with government agencies and charged with eradicating waste, fraud and abuse.
The Trump government previously purified more than a dozen inspectors -general, but Martin had been spared, even when his department was examined for wasting expenditure.
The office of Martin issued a Flash report in which it was warned that the freezing of the Trump Government on all foreign aid and movements to cut USAID staff supervised humanitarian aid 'largely non -operational'.
This includes the agency's assets to ensure that none of the financing falls into the hands of violent extremist groups or wanders in conflict areas, the watchdog said.
A spokesperson for the USAID Office of Inspector General confirmed that the role of Martin had ended. They gave no reason for the decision.