Responding to President Trump’s recent plan for the terrorist enclave called Gaza, Knoxville’s representative in Congress, Tim Burchett, says they should come to Tennessee:

“We already have Palestinians in America and some of them are the finest people that I know. They live in Knoxville, Tennessee, and they’re wonderful Americans if they want to assimilate and become Americans, but if they don’t, they wanna bring terrorism and hatred and things like that in this country. I don’t think we should, but we have a pretty good record with Palestinians at least in Tennessee, so I welcome them” https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/rep-burchett-welcomes-idea-of-palestinians-relocating-to-us-tn/ar-AA1yChi5

Burchett then pivots to the problem of illegal immigration suggesting that a “litmus test” of who should be taken into the U.S. would apply to the Arabs (the proper non-political designation for so-called “palestinians”) because he says we already have the Taliban and Chinese spies in our country.

Presumably he is saying that bringing in more terrorist leaning anit-Jew and anti-America agitators is not a good idea.

Burchett has a short memory. This is the same Tim Burchett that as a Tennessee state senator, sponsored a 2007 bill, now law, that was supposed to penalize transporting illegal aliens into the state. The bill was amended to let certain NGOS (Catholic Charities???) defend bringing illegal aliens into the state if it was for so-called religious purposes like mission work. Of course the amendment made little sense since the goal of the bill was to punish transporting illegal aliens into the state.

In response to the religious defense amendment, House member Stacey Campfield, also from Knoxville, questioned whether this amendment would apply to an NGO bringing in aliens to commit jihad. Legitimate question but of course not taken seriously by the bill sponsors so the bill passed with the amendment.

Laughably Burchett believes there is a “litmus test” that can somehow discern which “palestinians” want to assimilate and become good Americans which just shows how little insight Burchett has to Islamist doctrine and thinking.

Ft. Hood’s 2009 jihadist U.S. Army Major Nidal Malkik Hasan was born and raised in the U.S. by “palestinian” parents who immigrated to the U.S. from the West Bank which is politically ruled by the Hamas supporting Palestinian Authority, aka, Fatah.

The 2015 Chattanooga jihadi Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who gunned down five U.S. servicemen and wounded two others, while not born in the U.S., was raised in Tennessee by parents who were reported to be Palestinian-Jordanians and who “identified themselves as Palestinians”.

Daoud Abudiab, a “palestinian” who labels his birthplace as “occupied palestine” where his parents still reside, has had leadership roles with the illegal alien supporting TIRRC and Jew-hating American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC). 

Daoud Abudiab, was a co-founder of AMAC and its first chairman and is a fellow traveler of Israel haters. Trying hard to portray himself as an interfaither with the singular agenda of creating a positive impression of Muslims through his “Our Muslim Neighbor,” (a project of Religions for Peace USA, an organization itself tied to Muslim Brotherhood organizations), Abudiab launched his Faith and Culture Center in 2014. Then his Center joined Nashville’s leftist collective to strategize with the emerging local BLM chapter. That was the same year that BLM leaders traveled to “occupied palestine” and publicly announced their support for the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

Coming out of the closet in his own way, Abudiab joined the Muslim Brotherhood organizations at the inaugural USCMO conference the same year the USCMO issued its “Washington Declaration”, an initiative intended to unite a globalized Islamist political force. The USCMO was founded by every major U.S.-based Jew-hating organization including CAIR, AMP (BDS leader American Muslims for Palestine), MAS – the Muslim American Society whose founder admitted that his organization was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Following his attendance at the USCMO conference, Abudiab amplified his hatred of Israel by speaking at FOSNA’s (Friends of Sabeel North America) 2015 conference. FOSNA attacks Christian Zionism, promotes the BDS campaign against Israel, and has teamed up with Black 4 Palestine to bring black churches and clergy into their Israel and Jew hate efforts.

FOSNA remains on the Anti-Defamation League’s top ten list of anti-Israel organizations in the U.S.

In the course of pretending to be focused on a “struggle for a just peace” FOSNA predictably offered a panel discussion on BDS.

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS campaign made it clear in 2010, and again, more recently, that the goal of BDS is to eliminate Israel. He expressly rejects a two-state solution and says that a palestinian right of return is the way to end Israel as a Jewish state.

Tennessean Dana Swaies a pro-palestinian Hamas supporter as far back as 2014, is so venomous that it earned her a profile on Canary Mission, which “documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond. Canary Mission investigates hatred across the entire political spectrum, including the far right, far left and anti-Israel activists.”

According to Canary Mission, “[a]s of August 2020, Swaies used the alias Bateekhahead and the screen name دانا on Twitter, Some of Swaies’ posts include:

According to Canary Mission, “As of March 2021, Swaies’s LinkedIn page said she was a Scheduling Coordinator at the Murfreesboro offices of Cumberland Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, in Tennessee, since November 2020.”

To round out the known who’s who of Burchett’s “finest [palestinain] people” in Tennessee, there is former UT Knoxville student Amira Sakalla who as reported by Canary Mission, “called for an Intifada, demonized Israel and spread Israel hatred online. Sakalla was the founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of Tennessee (UTK)  (SJP UTK), in 2012.”

And that is just a taste of Sakalla’s Jew-hatred. Among her many Jew-hating credentials was her 2015 -2016 stint as a staff intern at the anti-Israel organization Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) which is the same time period that Daoud got connected to FOSNA. Hmmm.

For anyone who has paid attention to the TN American Muslim Advisory Council during Zulfat Suara’s leadership, it was no surprise that Sakalla and her Jew-hating comrade Ash-Lee Henderson, were featured speakers at AMAC’s 2018 attack Zionism event. 

Someone in Tim Burchett’s district needs to share this information with him and strongly suggest that he reconsider expanding the community of “the finest people [he] knows”.