Pittsburgh “Hamas Operator” Allegedly Bought Explosives, Destroyed Jewish Buildings — And Donated to “Democrat Squad”

PITTSBURGH. Among the Steel City is a promising Hamas terrorist, and he likes it Detachment of Democrats.

The FBI and Pittsburgh police arrested two Pittsburgh residents on hate crime charges Wednesday for allegedly damaging or defacing Jewish buildings in July.

Shockingly, one of these individuals, Mohamad Hamad, a self-described “Hamas operative,” procured and tested the explosive materials for the future fireball and was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard stationed near Pittsburgh International Airport. criminal complaint.

The dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen also donated to the Democratic Caucus, which has called Israel’s years-long war in Gaza genocide and pushed for a U.S. arms embargo on the Jewish state fighting Iran and its terrorists.

Talia Lubit, accused as Hamad’s Jewish accomplice of graffiti about Hamas on a synagogue and a Jewish community center, called Jews the “enemy”, advocated for the district council to pass a controversial anti-Israel cease-fire resolution and joined a letter in defense of Pittsburgh Anti-Israel Squad member Summer Lee, who last month blamed Israel for the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on the first anniversary of its founding.

“In Pittsburgh, we’ve seen the infiltration of the Democratic Party by anti-Israel extremists who often target the Jewish community,” Jeremy Kazzaz, executive director of the Beacon Coalition, a nonprofit that fights anti-Semitism in the political sphere, told The Post.

The chilling allegations come after three Hebrew University of Pittsburgh students were attacked last semester, and 62 percent of Jews nationwide are concerned. anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party.

“Imagine the horror they would have seen if they had cameras. Hamas fighters are tearing down their flags in white suburbs,” Hamad, of Coraopolis, northwest Pittsburgh, told an FBI insider via Signal.

The encrypted messaging app is similar to Telegram, which Hamas members used to share first-person videos of the October 7 attack, in which more than 2,000 armed terrorists invaded southern Israel and killed and kidnapped more than 1,400 people.

Hamad used Signal to share his desire to be martyred for Islam.

He allegedly sent a photo of himself wearing a green headband with the Hamas logo and a black hoodie that said “RESPECT EXISTENCE OR EXPECT RESISTANCE” and wrote: “My heart longs to be with my brothers abroad.”

The emails show he bought two pounds of Indian black aluminum powder and two pounds of potassium perchlorate, which is used to make explosives.

And reports show that Hamad planned to light a “large projectile” on July 6 as practice for a future blast and enjoyed a video released the next day of “what appears to be the detonation of an explosive device and a corresponding fireball,” FBI Special. This was reported by agent Brian Collins.

After reading the criminal complaint, Kazzaz feared that Hamad was planning to attack the Jewish community in Pittsburgh.

Hamad also corresponded with Lubit, a Jewish activist who lives in Pittsburgh’s Oakland area, about graffiti on Jewish buildings days before the Chabad Synagogue on Squirrel Hill was spray-painted red on July 29 with the words “Jews 4 Palestine” and an upside-down triangle , a symbol used by Hamas to designate Israeli targets in Gaza.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh was also spray-painted with the words: “Funds the genocide of Jews, hates Zionists.”

Lubit seems to have tried to reconcile his Jewishness with anti-Israel activism.

“I literally feel like I’m starting to see the Jews as my enemies,” wrote Hamad, a recent graduate of Dickinson College in central Pennsylvania, the night before the vandalism, and also sent a group chat image of an Israeli flag with a Nazi swastika in the center. under the pseudonym “Warshava,” the complaint states.

“Every day I think, ‘I don’t want to be Jewish anymore,'” she told Hamad, believing it to be at odds with “being against oppression.”

Kazzaz said a worldview divided between oppressors and oppressed “led to the radicalization of two people from very different backgrounds” not only for vandalizing Jewish buildings, but also for Hamad “delivering explosive materials, trying to build bombs, seeking martyrdom of death”.

And Kazzaz argued that elected representatives of the Democratic Party are increasing the danger with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric.

“The way Summer Lee views the world and uses her crass pulpit legitimizes these extremists,” Kazzaz said of the freshman congresswoman, who calls Israel’s war for survival “genocide” and advocates resistance.

“It allows them, in some twisted way, to justify acts of terrorism against random innocent people,” he said.

“Jews are always seen as the oppressors in this dual system.”

Both Hamad and Loubit are associated with anti-Israel politics and members of the Democratic Party.

Hamad gifted $10 to Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar in November 2023 after she called on Israel to cease fire on the day of the October 7 attack on the Jewish state by Hamas.

Hamad also sent $5 Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan in April after Congress condemned a Palestinian-American congresswoman in November 2023 for defending a Hamas attack on Israel’s “apartheid government” as “resistance.”

Love was among more than just people from the Jewish community who signed the letter protecting Leewho called for a cease-fire 11 days after the Oct. 7 massacre, after about 40 Jewish leaders pleaded with Lee to show solidarity with Israel.

“If this is a war, it didn’t start on Oct. 7,” Lubitt said in March, sponsoring a county council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Israel, foreshadowing a statement from Lee, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Executive Sara. Innamorato blames Israel for the October 7 massacre.

“This is a dangerous situation that many of us in this situation have tried to convey to our elected officials and our neighbors, that the use of violent rhetoric, the misuse of language and reliance on age-old anti-Semitic tropes is making us and our communities less safe,” Kazzaz said.

He accused Democrats of pandering to pro-Palestinian voters to win elections, for boosting those anti-Israel voices in the party.

Although Sen. Bob Casey condemned Lee’s statement, which blamed Israel for the worst day since the Holocaust, the Pennsylvania Democrat continues to support Lee, prompting many Jewish Democrats to consider voting for your Republican opponent Dave McCormick.

“When (Democrats) put party over country, they hide these dangers. And these arrests are a reflection of that,” Kazzaz said.

“Jew hatred can turn into really dangerous situations and violence.”