Democrat Rep.’s Boyfriend Caught Labeling Terrorist ‘Legend And A Hero’ In Deleted Post

A resurfaced, now-deleted social media post by Ammar Campa-Najjar, the boyfriend of Rep. Sara Jacobs and a congressional candidate, is reigniting scrutiny over his family ties.

Campa-Najjar is a Christian who was born and raised in San Diego. He is not a Muslim, and he has previously rejected his grandfather’s actions.

The controversy centers on a deleted message in which Campa-Najjar wrote that his grandfather, Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, was “a legend and a hero.” The post also included a personal reflection about his father, saying he watched him “stumble from one career path to another,” hoping he would choose a different path than the one that “cost his parents their lives,” and referenced “a lifetime of disappointment.”

Al-Najjar has been described as a mastermind of the terrorist murder of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Games. Campa-Najjar has said he rejects that violence and has sought to distance himself from his grandfather’s legacy.

Ammar Campa-Najjar, boyfriend of Congresswoman @RepSaraJacobs, is running for Congress.

In a now-deleted post, he wrote that his grandfather, Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, reputedly the mastermind behind the Munich Olympic massacre, was “a legend and a hero.”

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The resurfaced post is drawing attention because Campa-Najjar has been here before politically. In 2018, he ran in a deeply Republican San Diego-area district against then-Rep. Duncan Hunter, who won re-election even as he faced federal corruption charges involving the personal spending of campaign money.

During that campaign, Hunter called Campa-Najjar a “national security risk,” and accused him of being an “Islamist” over his Palestinian ancestry, prompting San Diego rabbis to demand the Republican desist.

Hunter ultimately won 54.3 percent to Campa-Najjar’s 45.7% in a race viewed as a test of partisanship in the Trump era. Afterward, Hunter thanked supporters and said he intended “to make it business-as-usual in working with President Trump for the next two years to achieve more success, especially given the challenge of having a Democrat-led House.”

Now, with Campa-Najjar back in the political arena, critics say the deleted post undercuts his prior insistence that he rejects his grandfather’s legacy. Supporters argue candidates shouldn’t be judged by relatives, particularly when they’ve condemned the relative’s conduct.

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