An asylum official with the Department of Homeland Security has been put on leave after it was revealed that she once served as a spokeswoman for the Palestine Liberation Organization — and recently wrote “F–k Israel” in numerous posts supporting Hamas, according to reports.
Nejwa Ali, an officer with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency of Homeland Security, worked as a public affairs officer for the PLO’s delegation to the US in 2016 and 2017, the Daily Wire reported.
She was hired at the USCIS in 2019 as an asylum officer and earlier this year was made an adjudication officer, according to her LinkedIn profile. The role includes vetting people before they enter the US.
Ali has expressed her support for Palestinian causes for years — and recently posted inflammatory comments about Israel in the wake of the surprise attack by Hamas, according to the outlet.
She posts as “Falastine Mi Amor” on private social media accounts, according to the outlet — including images of terrorists using paragliders.
“Palestinians have been suffering under Israel’s brutal, illegal, military, APARTHEID occupation for more than 75 years,” Ali reportedly wrote on Oct. 7, the day the terrorists launched their attack.
One image she posted with the caption “Free PALESTINE” depicts armed terrorists paragliding into Israel.
“F–k Israel, the government, and its military @stateofisrael @timesofisrael are you ready for your downfall…because we are ready for our freedom,” she wrote on Instagram.
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“Israel and every Israel [sic] has to remember one thing: respect our existence or expect resistance. Simple. No apologies. #freepalestine,” she added.
The following day, Ali wrote: ”Free Palestine and F–K APARTHEID Israel, and any Israeli that supports the bulls–t. Your privilege is blinding, apparently, but ignorance is not bliss and I hold every Israeli accountable for their governments actions, IF they do not speak against Israel and the Israeli military.”
On Oct. 9 — two days after more than 1,400 people were slaughtered in Israel — she posted a video captioned “F–k Israel and any Jew that supports Israel” and a photo that says: “A nation that has nothing but Allah has everything it will ever need.”
She also included an antisemitic cartoon of a Jewish nose.
Ali’s Facebook profile describes her as being from Dearborn, Michigan, a city with the largest Muslim population in the US.
“Palestine will be free one day,” she wrote on Instagram. “F–K APARTHEID Israel and any Israeli that supports that bull—t. F–k you, may Allah forgive you. and spare us the crocodile tears, I sure as hell give zero f–ks.”
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In another Facebook post, she encouraged people to “be on the right side of history” and included another expletive toward the Jewish state.
Ali claimed to the Daily Wire that she still worked for DHS — and refused to say if she had disclosed her previous job with the PLO.
“That’s none of your f–king business,” she told the outlet. “Mind your business before I call the police. If I were you, I’d respectfully hang up the phone right now.”
However, agency spokesman Matthew Burke told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that “this individual has been placed on administrative leave.”
“USCIS strongly condemns antisemitism and the use of violent rhetoric in any form,” Burke said.
“USCIS employees are held to high ethical standards both on and off duty, including their presence on social media. Any violation of these standards is taken seriously by the agency.”
Emilio Gonzalez, who ran USCIS during the Bush administration, told the Washington Times that Ali
“should be terminated.”
He was shocked she was hired in the first place given her background.
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“The PLO is a designated foreign terrorist organization,” Gonzalez told the outlet. “The fact that she worked for them and then was hired by the Department of Homeland Security tells me that somebody dropped the ball with her background checks.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) demanded in a Thursday letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the agency “terminate Ms. Ali’s employment … without delay” and suggested that her bias played a role in immigration cases involving both Palestinian and Israeli or Jewish applicants.
“Ms. Ali has explicitly linked her prejudicial views to her job,” Hawley wrote. “For instance, in one social media post associated with her name, she included the hashtags ‘#asylumseekers #palestine #refugeeswelcome’ — suggesting that she may preference certain immigration cases over others at DHS. This is unacceptable.”
“The Biden DHS needs to explain – now- why they had a pro-terrorist, pro-genocide anti-Semitic radical adjudicating asylum claims and why in the world she hasn’t been fired,” Hawley wrote on X.
According to the USCIS, applicants are “thoroughly vetted” and face “extensive” background checks before being hired for a permanent position, the Washington Times reported.
Its handbook also instructs employees not to post anything to social media that is “discriminatory, obscene, harassing or intimidating.”
