A woman in upstate New York is charged with funding the terror group that murdered my daughter in 1995. The organization survives. Will this prosecution?

Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) does not need a state. It does not need an army. It needs a wire transfer and someone willing to send it. That has been true since before most people reading this were born, and it is true again this month in Irondequoit, New York.

Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to PIJ. According to the Justice Department, Washburn — a leader of a post-October 7 extremist group called the Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation — exchanged messages with someone she believed to be a PIJ fighter in Gaza. She told him she wished every day were October 7th. She said she hated Jews “very much.” She said she wished Israel would “disappear.” Records........

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