Democrat Adam Hamawy, endorsed by the Squad, just won the New Jersey primary for the U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman — despite documented ties to an organization the 9/11 Commission said "covertly provided financial and other support for terrorist activities" by Osama bin Laden. That organization is the Benevolence International Foundation. And this is the guy Democrats chose as their standard-bearer.

But sure, let's keep talking about Spencer Pratt's Instagram posts. Priorities.

According to Breitbart, Hamawy interned with the Benevolence International Foundation in Bosnia back in 1994. That might sound like ancient history, except for what the organization actually was. The 9/11 Commission explicitly stated it "covertly provided financial and other support for terrorist activities" carried out by bin Laden during the 1990s. In 2003, a federal court alleged that al-Qaeda used the foundation as "a base for operations in Europe against Al Qaeda's true enemy, the United States."

That's not some right-wing conspiracy theory. That's the 9/11 Commission. That's a federal court filing. Those are facts.

Hamawy's campaign responded to the scrutiny by calling it "absurd" and "bigoted." Of course they did. That's the playbook now. Any question about a candidate's association with a group tied to the worst terrorist attack in American history is just bigotry. Pack it up, folks. Nothing to investigate here.

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Now, to be fair, Hamawy is an Iraq War veteran who reportedly saved Sen. Tammy Duckworth's life after a helicopter crash. Nobody's questioning his military service. But military service doesn't erase the question of why you were interning with an al-Qaeda-linked foundation, and it certainly doesn't make that question "bigoted" to ask.

The Benevolence International Foundation also had ties to Saffet Catovic, a Bosnian diplomat who served as the organization's spokesman. Hamawy also reportedly did volunteer work in the Gaza Strip. None of this made the Squad think twice about putting their name behind him.

And that's the real story here. The Democrat Party didn't reject this candidate. They didn't distance themselves. They endorsed him. The Squad — the same caucus that can't bring itself to condemn Hamas without adding seventeen asterisks — threw their weight behind a candidate linked to a group the 9/11 Commission flagged for funding bin Laden.

Hamawy has never been charged with terrorism. Fine. But since when is "never been charged with terrorism" the bar for a United States congressman? We used to expect a little more from people who wanted to write our laws.

The New Jersey primary results came in overnight, and the media barely covered it. A Squad-endorsed candidate with ties to an al-Qaeda-linked foundation just won a congressional primary, and most of the press couldn't be bothered to mention the Benevolence International Foundation by name.

This is the modern Democrat Party. They'll call you a bigot for noticing.