Report: Rashida Tlaib’s Pattern of Appearances with Alleged Terror-Linked Figures
ISGAP report documents $570k in campaign payments to consultant with ties to terror-affiliated groups, shared platforms with PFLP operatives, and history of antisemitic rhetoric
A new report released by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) outlines a systematic pattern of engagement by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib with individuals and organizations allegedly linked to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The report documents instances spanning from 2019 through August 2025, when Tlaib served as a keynote speaker at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, an event that also featured calls for political leaders to be “neutralized” and speakers defending Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
Campaign Spending and Consultant Ties
Among the report’s most significant findings is Tlaib’s campaign disbursement of over $570,000 between 2020 and 2025 to Unbought Power, a consulting firm led by Rasha Mubarak. According to ISGAP’s research, Mubarak has documented affiliations with organizations that faced scrutiny for ties to designated terror groups.
Specifically, Mubarak previously worked with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2009 Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial. Mubarak also served as a speaker for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and was listed as a press contact for the Alliance for Global Justice, an organization investigated for ties to Samidoun.
Samidoun, a prisoner advocacy network operationally and ideologically linked to the PFLP, was formally designated as a terrorist entity by both the United States and Canada in October 2024, with both nations citing its role as a mobilization and propaganda arm of the PFLP. Germany had previously banned Samidoun in 2023.
Shared Platforms with Terrorist Operatives
The briefing documents multiple instances in which Tlaib appeared alongside individuals with documented terrorist affiliations. Most notably, in April 2025, Tlaib participated in the Palestinian American Community Center Conference in New Jersey, where she shared the stage with Wisam Rafeedie, a former PFLP operative convicted of operating a PFLP publishing outlet that disseminated materials supporting terrorism against Israel.
In May 2024, Rafeedie participated virtually in the People’s Conference for Palestine, where he defended Hamas’s October 7 attacks, describing Hamas as part of the Palestinian resistance and dismissing documented atrocities as fabrications. He declared that “there is no longer a place for the two-state solution” and called for “one democratic Palestinian state on all Palestinian land, which will end the Zionist project in Palestine.”
When Tlaib spoke at the same 2024 conference, she told attendees: “You will always, every single one of you fighting for the liberation of Falasteen, will always be welcome in my city,” and characterized U.S. military assistance to Israel as “fueling genocide.”
August 2025 Conference and Congressional Response
The People’s Conference for Palestine reconvened August 29-31, 2025, with Tlaib again as a featured speaker. At this event, Nidal Jboor, M.D., co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide, told the audience to “neutralize” political leaders across Israel, the United States, and Europe: “They need to be locked up. They need to be taken out. They need to be neutralized to save children, to save humanity.”
Tlaib’s remarks included: “Outside of the decaying halls of the empire in Washington, DC, we are winning. … Change doesn’t come from the cowards and warmongers in Congress. It comes from the streets.”
Following her appearance, House Resolution 674 was introduced to censure Tlaib for promoting and endorsing terrorism and antisemitism. This represented the second formal censure motion against Tlaib; the first occurred in November 2023 for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7 attacks.
Antisemitic Rhetoric and Equivocation on Violence
The report catalogs instances in which Tlaib declined to explicitly condemn political violence when framed as “resistance.” Following the October 7 Hamas attacks, Tlaib did not issue a direct public condemnation of the Hamas terrorists. Instead, she framed events as part of a “struggle for liberation.”
The report also documents antisemitic rhetoric. In 2019, Tlaib stated that she felt a “calming feeling” when thinking about the Holocaust, describing it in the context of Palestinian land loss. In June 2025, Tlaib voted “present” on a bipartisan resolution condemning attacks on Jewish individuals in the United States, a deliberate abstention from affirming the measure.
ISGAP concludes that these patterns of engagement raise serious ethical and national security concerns and recommends formal House Ethics Committee investigation, enhanced campaign finance transparency, and a Department of Justice counterterrorism assessment.