Via Free Beacon:
Palestinian teacher Hanan al-Hroub, who is scheduled to speak at a Clinton Global Initiative dinner on Tuesday, is receiving backlash from Republicans because her husband was convicted of participating in a terrorist attack in 1980 that killed six Israelis.
Al-Hroub’s husband, Omar al-Hroub, was convicted for being an accomplice to a 1980 bombing that killed six Israelis who were walking home from Sabbath prayers on a Friday night. At the time, Omar was a chemist and helped provide chemicals to make the explosives. He went on to serve as a senior Palestinian official, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
After serving a 10-year sentence, Mr. al-Hroub accepted the 1993 Oslo interim peace accord with Israel, served as a deputy Cabinet minister in the Palestinian Authority, and supports a two-state solution with Israel, according to an Associated Press story quoting Qadura Faris, director of the Palestinian prisoners’ association. Mr. al-Hroub is a senior Palestinian official who is close to President Mahmoud Abbas and “believes in his peaceful approach,” Mr. Faris told the AP.