. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23). Omar Barghouti, the co-founder and face of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is seeking to spread his message of hate throughout the US Muslim community. His vehicles to do so are two remnants of a Hamas network that existed in the 1980s and 1990s, CAIR and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). If makes sense that he would use these groups, as Barghouti’s own organization includes Hamas as part of its national committee. Yet, it also reveals the true mission of BDS, which is the destruction and dismantling of the one and only Jewish state and a main reason why BDS is deemed to be anti-Semitic.