The Clinton Foundation is drawing intense ire for scheduling the wife of a Palestinian terrorist to speak at a Clinton Global Initiative dinner on Tuesday.

Hanan al-Hroub, this year’s winner of the Global Teacher Prize, is scheduled to speak at the dinner — despite the fact that her husband, Omar, served 10 years in an Israeli prison for providing chemicals used in a 1980 terror bombing attack that killed six Israelis. This was apparently no big deal to the Clinton Foundation — even as the U.S. investigates the weekend bombings in New Jersey and New York, as well as the stabbing spree that occurred in a Minnesota mall.

“The decision to honor the wife of a terrorist by Hillary Clinton’s foundation shows a complete lack of judgment and a callousness that should disqualify her from holding the presidency.”

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Foundation donors were quick to defend the invitation of al-Hroub.

“Hanan al-Hroub is a beacon of hope in a part of the world that is very dear to me and in desperate need of more hope,” said Haim Saban, a major Clinton Foundation donor, according to The Wall Street Journal. “I only wish more people honored her and the cause that she embodies.”

When news surfaced that al-Hroub would be present at the CGI dinner, Republicans immediately pounced.

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“Today’s report that the Clinton Foundation is feting the wife of a Palestinian man convicted of helping bomb innocent Israeli citizens is deeply disturbing, especially in the wake of this weekend’s attacks,” Jason Miller, the senior communications adviser for Donald Trump’s campaign, said in a statement. “The decision to honor the wife of a terrorist by Hillary Clinton’s foundation shows a complete lack of judgment and a callousness that should disqualify her from holding the presidency.”

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Raj Shah, the deputy communications director for the Republican National Committee, blasted the tone-deafness shown by the Clinton Global Initiative.

“In the wake of this weekend’s attacks, granting a platform to the spouse of a terrorist bomb-maker just miles away from where explosives were detonated days ago is an insult to the victims and makes a mockery of the Clinton Foundation,” Shah said in a statement provided to WSJ.

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Trump has hammered President Obama and Hillary Clinton as responsible for the rise in global terrorist incidents and made the promise of security a key tenet of his campaign’s appeal.

“The threat from radical Islamic terrorism has only grown under Obama and Clinton, and ISIS has greatly expanded the number of countries where it is fully operational. Our enemies neither fear nor respect Hillary Clinton, and as a nation, that is dangerous, and it is disgraceful,” Miller said in a Monday statement addressing the past weekend’s attacks.

“Mr. Trump will bring an end to these attacks — because unlike Obama and Clinton, he believes we’re in more than a fight about ‘narratives.’ These terrorists pose an existential threat to our country and our values and they must be destroyed before they can harm any more of our citizens.”