(WASHINGTON, DC – 11/22/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Biden administration to ensure that the “important and long overdue” temporary ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal turns into a permanent ceasefire that results in the resumption of credible negotiations to secure a just, lasting peace.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Nihad Awad said:
“The Biden administration must ensure that today’s important and long overdue development leads to the permanent end of the Israeli government’s genocidal attacks on Gaza, the release of every innocent person wrongfully imprisoned and the resumption of credible negotiations to secure the end of the illegal occupation of Palestine.
“It is also important to note that the Biden administration should have demanded that Netanyahu take this obvious step of a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange over a month ago. Instead, the White House condemned American Muslims who called for a ceasefire as ‘repugnant,’ thereby enabling the Israeli government to massacre more than 13,000 Palestinians while conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank.
“Pausing the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza for a few days is not enough. It’s long past time for President Biden to listen to the American people, demand a complete ceasefire, and then pursue a just, lasting peace.”
[NOTE: More than 100,000 Americans have used CAIR’s action alert to contact their members of Congress and call for an end to the violence and the renewal of U.S.-led efforts to end the occupation. SEE: Urge Your Members of Congress to Address Root Cause of Mideast Violence]
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-999-8292, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com