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Palestine House of Freedom, also known as Dar Alhurriya, a federally tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to host an event Thursday with Nasser Abu Srour, a Fatah member convicted of participating in the brutal 1993 murder of an Israeli security officer.
Abu Srour will appear virtually from Egypt, where he has lived since Israel released him in a 2025 hostage-prisoner exchange. The event will run from 6 to 8 p.m. on Aug. 20.
Admission is free, but the registration page solicits “tax receipt eligible” donations to Palestine House of Freedom. The organization also says copies of Abu Srour’s prison memoir, The Tale of a Wall, will be offered as gifts in exchange for donations.
The Murder Missing From the Event Description
Abu Srour was serving a life sentence for participating in the January 1993 murder of Haim Nahmani, a 25-year-old officer with Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service.
Contemporaneous reporting said Nahmani was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in an apartment in Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood on Jan. 3, 1993. He had arrived to meet Maher Abu Srour, a Hamas terrorist who had been acting as an informant.
Palestinian sources have also independently acknowledged both his affiliation and participation.
A 2023 Arabic-language profile published by the Palestinian Vision Center for Political Development states that Abu Srour joined Fatah, participated in operations against Israelis during the First Intifada and established an armed cell with his cousins Maher and Mahmoud Abu Srour. It explicitly says he “participated in killing a Zionist officer.”
Fatah’s own media outlet has likewise reported that Abu Srour was serving life for participating in the killing of an Israeli officer.
In a 2013 prison interview with Israel’s Channel 2, Abu Srour described himself as a soldier rather than an innocent bystander.
“I was a soldier in the army of Palestine,” he said. “What do soldiers do? They fight.”
Abu Srour added that he had done his part in the struggle and would “continue” through other means. He predicted that, without a diplomatic solution, there would be “a third, fourth, fifth and sixth intifada.”
Released in a Hamas-Israel Exchange
Abu Srour remained imprisoned through multiple proposed prisoner releases before being freed in October 2025 as part of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement. He was among more than 150 Palestinians serving life sentences who were released and transferred to Egypt, according to reports.
Abu Srour’s public statements since his release indicate that his underlying position on armed “resistance” has not changed.
In a July 2026 Arabic-language interview with Al Jazeera, Abu Srour said prison had changed nothing about his core convictions. He defended Palestinian terror groups retaining their weapons, calling the gun “a revolutionary means” and an integral part of Palestinian identity.
He also praised former Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, describing him as a charismatic and imposing leader. Abu Srour said the October 7 attack was unsurprising to those who had known Sinwar in prison and rejected efforts to hold him responsible for the resulting destruction in Gaza.
Referring to Hamas’s name for the attack, “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Abu Srour said October 7 had shattered Israel’s image of invincibility.
“The Palestinian has proven that the occupation state is an entity capable of bleeding,” he said, according to a translation of the Arabic interview. “As long as the entity is capable of bleeding, it is capable of dying and disappearing from this region.”
A Tax-Exempt Organization Near Congress
Palestine House of Freedom operates under Education for Peace & Understandng, the name as rendered in IRS records. The organization has been federally tax-exempt since July 2023 under Section 501(c)(3), making qualifying donations tax-deductible. Its EIN is 92-1906608.
Its 2024 Form 990 reported $510,746 in revenue, including $509,556 in contributions. The organization spent $211,045 and ended the year with $314,845 in net assets. Founder and President Avraham “Miko” Peled received $98,077 in compensation.
Palestine House describes itself as a nonprofit with “extensive outreach to Congress” located “just steps away from the halls of Congress.” Its stated vision calls for “a free, democratic Palestine on all historic Palestine to replace the current apartheid regime.”
Peled has generated controversy through his own comments about terrorism and Jews. During a November 2024 Oxford Union debate, he declared that the Hamas-led October 7 attack “was not terrorism.”
“They were acts of heroism of a people that have been oppressed,” Peled said.
In 2016, Princeton’s Palestine committee canceled one of Peled’s appearances after he posted that people should not be surprised that Jews had a reputation for being “sleazy thieves.”
A Pattern of Controversial Programming
The Abu Srour event follows several other programs that have placed Palestine House of Freedom at the center of controversy.
In May, the organization hosted a virtual discussion with U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Its announcement said Albanese would appear by video “since she is sanctioned from entering the United States.” The Treasury Department had placed Albanese on its sanctions list over what the State Department described as her efforts to advance International Criminal Court actions against American and Israeli officials.
In June 2025, Palestine House hosted a fundraiser for Birzeit University. The university has faced congressional scrutiny over its Hamas-affiliated student bloc, which held a majority in the student government. Harvard halted its formal collaboration with Birzeit during an institutional review, while a House committee later described Birzeit as an institution whose student body showed overwhelming support for Hamas.
Two months later, Palestine House screened To Kill a War Machine, a documentary about Palestine Action. Its own listing promoted the film as having been banned in Britain after Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organization.
A Federally Tax-Exempt Platform
By placing Thursday’s event under its charitable banner, Palestine House of Freedom is lending its institutional name and Washington platform to Abu Srour’s appearance. The program offers a concrete example of the figures the organization chooses to elevate through its nonprofit activities. That decision potentially merits scrutiny from donors and the broader public.