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Late last year, FBI agents searched, among other locations, the Chicago-area home of Hatem Abudayyeh, the chief of the Arab American Action Network. "The warrants are seeking evidence in support of an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism," explained an FBI spokesman in Minneapolis, where other homes were searched.
Subpoenas also went to numerous Chicago activists, including Thomas Burke of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who was asked for records showing payments to Abudayyeh's groups and to terror groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). According to Burke, anxious to show political motivation, he and several other subpoena recipients were contributors to Fight Back!, a socialist newsletter opposing U.S. "wars of occupation" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although presumably uninformed about the details of secret grand jury testimony, one prominent Presbyterian activist has declared dramatically: "The time for all Americans to speak up about these encroachments on our constitutional right to dissent is now. We must not wait until Presbyterians who are Palestinian solidarity peacemakers receive the 'knock on the door.'"