by Itamar Marcus and Yocheved T. Kolchin
Family members Stuart Force, father of Taylor Force of blessed memory; Ruth Schwartz, mother of Ezra Schwartz of blessed memory; Rina Ariel, mother of Hallel Yaffa Ariel of blessed memory; Micah Avni, son of Richard Lakin of blessed memory; and Avraham Fraenkel, father of Naftali Fraenkel of blessed memory; have joined the Palestinian Media Watch in asking U.S. Secretary of State to stop Palestinian Authority terror activist Jibril Rajoub from entering the United States.
U.S. citizens who were murdered as a result of incitement by Jibril Rajoub from 2014 to 2016 include: Richard Lakin, 76; Ezra Schwartz, 18; Taylor Force, 29; Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13; and Naftali Fraenkel, 16.
Palestinian Media Watch is joined by the families of the American terror victims in calling on the United States Secretary of State to prevent Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub from entering U.S. soil.
Should he enter the country, we are calling on the U.S. to have Rajoub arrested and investigated for incitement to murder of American citizens. Rajoub is scheduled to speak in New York next Wednesday, April 5th at an event organized by the Israel Policy Forum.
In the letter to Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, PMW notes that Jibril Rajoub publicly incited terror and glorified terrorists throughout the 2015-2016 Palestinian terror wave that claimed the lives of four American citizens: Hallel Yaffa Ariel, Taylor Force, Richard Lakin, and Ezra Schwartz.
Rajoub also called on Hamas to kidnap Israelis in 2014, just a few months before U.S. citizen Naftali Fraenkel and his friends Gilad Sha’ar and Eyal Yifrach were kidnapped on their way home from school.
Under U.S. law any alien who “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity” is “ineligible for visas or admission” to the U.S. [8 U.S.C. 1182 – INADMISSIBLE ALIENS, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5] PMW has documented Jibril Rajoub’s continual vocal support for terrorism in its special report ‘The Jibril Rajoub File.’
Jibril Rajoub and other Palestinian Authority leaders who are responsible for inciting the recent terror campaign have concluded that there is no international price to pay for supporting murder of Israelis. Prohibiting Jibril Rajoub’s entry to the U.S. would demonstrate that there is no immunity for those who promote and glorify terror.
The U.S. is committed to fighting terror, and that begins by preventing terror supporters from entering US soil. It is time to hold Jibril Rajoub accountable for his calls for murder.
PMW calls on our readers to forward this to your contacts in the U.S. Congress, administration, and media to help prevent the terror supporter Jibril Rajoub from entering the U.S. and to have him arrested should he arrive.
The full text of the letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State Rex T. Tillerson can be accessed by clicking here.