WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the 24th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Graham Platner is hosting a fundraiser at Exiles Bar in Washington, D.C. The bar that has historically aligned itself with the Islamic terror group, Hamas, in its fight against Israel.
The Daily Wire first reported, “Exiles, located a little over a mile north of the White House, hosted an event last year with the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), a group that claims that Israel started an “assault on Gaza” on October 7, 2023 — the day Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and killed around 1,200 people, taking hundreds more hostage… During an April 18, 2024, event, Exiles Bar gifted 10% of some of its food and drink sales to TIMEP.”
This is not the first time Graham Platner has embraced Islamic terrorist organizations, just a year after the 2001 attacks on 9/11, Platner penned an op-ed arguing, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” and bemoaning “every terrorist is portrayed as evil.”
“Graham Platner has a deep-rooted, alarming history of excusing terrorism to kowtow to a radicalized base,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Samantha Cantrell. “As Americans mark the 24th anniversary of September 11th and honor those who lost their lives at the hands of Islamic terrorism, Graham Platner is focused on raising money at a bar that aligned itself with the same ideology that attacked innocent Americans and the values our nation holds dear.”
Graham Platner’s deep rooted and alarming history of defending terrorism:
- Platner penned an op-ed defending terrorist groups and arguing, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” and “every terrorist is portrayed as evil.”
- Platner was voted “Most Likely to Start a Revolution” in high school, holding a piece of paper that said “Free” Palestine, among other countries.
- Platner said that he would have supported Bernie Sanders’ bill to block American aid to Israel.
- Platner said that he will never get American-Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) endorsement, that he refuses to take campaign cash from the “billionaires” who fund the Jewish group, and called Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists “a genocide.”
- Platner donated to Ilhan Omar’s campaign despite Omar’s history of incendiary, antisemitic language, belittling Jewish students as “pro-genocide,” and calling Israel’s self-defense “an act of terrorism.”
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