A human rights group working to block lawmakers from meeting with "abusive" foreign lobbyists employs a senior lobbyist who admitted to physically abusing his wife and was fired from a previous job for sexual misconduct.
While Jarrar now denies that he abused McCracken, and claims the letter was coerced, the history of misconduct allegations against him from women could raise questions for DAWN, a human rights group founded by slain Saudi dissident and Washington Post opinion contributor Jamal Khashoggi. DAWN's executive director is Sarah Leah Whitson, a vocal critic of Israel who once lamented that the Jewish state was not experiencing enough suffering during the COVID pandemic.