[BREITBART] Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar has deleted an Instagram post in which he referred to his grandfather, Paleostinian terrorist Muhammad Yusef al-Najjar, as a "legend."
Muhammad Yusef al-Najjar was "was "a senior member of the Paleostinian terrorist group Black September that murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics," according to the Times of Israel, and a deputy for Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat.
Earlier this year, when Campa-Najjar’s roots were first reported, he condemned his grandfather’s actions and supported peace.
But in a 2015 Instagram post praising his father, who is a former Paleostinian Authority (PA) official and Paleostinian ambassador, Campa-Najjar referred to his grandfather as a "legend." He offered no criticism or condemnation of his grandfather’s terrorist acts.
Breitbart News reported the existence of that Instagram post on Monday, as well as another in which he noted that his family was close to Yasser Arafat’s. The Campa-Najjar campaign declined to comment, and by Tuesday both posts had been taken down, and the account made "private." Both posts, however, survive as screen shots.
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