Islamic Association of Palestine
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Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) is a religious based organization that purports to write articles of a factual nature on issues that "Zionist controlled" westernized media fails to report. It calls itself a "a not-for-profit, public-awareness, educational, political, social, and civic, national grassroots organization dedicated to advancing a just, comprehensive, and eternal solution to the cause of Palestine and suffrages of the Palestinians."
It has been accused of issuing anti-semitic propaganda and having links to terrorists by the ADL.
The organizations claims that it is, by definition, not anti-semitic. According to the IAP, "Semitic" is a linguistic term denoting a family of Afro-Asiatic languages, including Arabic. The group argues that, as Palestinians are speakers of Arabic, they are by definition Semites. Therefore, according to the IAP, a pro-Palestinian organization is inherently incapable of being anti-Semitic [1]. This is not the consensus view on the word; see the main article, anti-semitism.
The U.S. government considers the IAP a front for Hamas in the United States.
In December, 2004, a federal judge in the U.S. city of Chicago ruled that the IAP (along with the Holy Land Foundation) was liable for a $156 million dollar lawsuit for aiding and abetting the terror group Hamas in the death of a 17-year-old American citizen. Though IAP has already had its assets frozen by the U.S. executive branch of the government, this represents the first time a U.S. court officially linked IAP to Hamas.