Ted Cruz pushes to designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

Republican Senator Ted Cruz announced plans to reintroduce a bill that would designate the radical Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, as a terrorist organization.

Cruz's remarks follow a recent anti-Semitic attack in Boulder, Colorado, where an Egyptian Islamist named Mohamed Soliman firebombed a group of Jewish demonstrators who were calling for the release of hostages held by the terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Soliman injured 16 peaceful demonstrators in the Boulder attack.

Soliman has reportedly voiced support for the Muslim Brotherhood on social media.

"The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is Hamas"

On Tuesday, Cruz said he plans to draft a "modernized" version of the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, a bill he first introduced in 2015.

"The Muslim Brotherhood uses political violence to achieve political ends and destabilize American allies, both within countries and across national boundaries," Cruz said in a statement to The Hill.

"The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is Hamas, a terrorist group which on October 7th committed the largest one day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and which included the murder and kidnapping of dozens of Americans," he added.

"The Brotherhood used the Biden administration to consolidate and deepen their influence, but the Trump administration and Republican Congress can no longer afford to avoid the threat they pose to Americans and American national security," he said.

The Muslim Brotherhood is designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.