The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on President Biden to personally condemn Israeli’s latest massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, this time the killing of at least 20 people waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City.
Israel has now killed some 26,000 Gazans, mostly women and children.
SEE: KNOW THEIR NAMES – Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
According to a new Economist/YouGov poll, more than one in three Americans believe Israel is carrying out genocide against Palestinians. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague announced that it will issue a preliminary order Friday on South Africa’s case charging Israel with genocide.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“As the key supporter of the far-right Israeli government’s genocidal war on the people of Gaza, President Biden should personally use his own voice to condemn this latest massacre of Palestinian civilians.
“President Biden can no longer ignore the fact that his administration is directly complicit in all of the war crimes Benjamin Netanyahu’s government carries out on a daily basis with U.S. military, financial, and political support.
“As recent polls show, Americans of all backgrounds are increasingly aware of the Israeli government’s genocidal campaign and increasingly opposed to the president’s blind support for the mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing of civilians in Gaza.
“President Biden must call for an immediate ceasefire and pursue a just, lasting peace that ends the occupation.”
He noted that yesterday, CAIR called on the Biden administration to demand that Israel’s far-right government end its attack on hospitals in Gaza housing hundreds of patients and displaced civilians.
Awad added that CAIR recently condemned the latest of what it calls the “Israeli war crime of the day,” the murder of a Gaza civilian in a group holding a white flag and holding their hands up in a so-called Israeli “safe zone.”
CAIR also condemned other “Israeli war crimes of the day” in Gaza, including eyewitness reports of the execution of civilians by Israeli forces, looting of archeological artifacts, reports of the “torture” of detainees and the ongoing desecration of cemeteries.
He noted that Israel’s far-right government has systematically destroyed religious (1,000 mosques destroyed), historical, educational, institutional, and cultural sites in Gaza.
CAIR condemned the killing of a Palestinian-American teen by the forces of the far-right Israeli government in the occupied West Bank.
CAIR previously called on the Biden administration to condemn the far-right Israeli government’s targeted murder of journalists in Gaza.
An investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists reports at least 83 journalists and media workers were among the almost 25,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza since the war began.
CAIR also called on President Biden to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and take action after he admitted to being opposed to the existence of a Palestinian state in any scenario.
CAIR condemned other Israeli war crimes, including a new call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza by a top Israeli government official, the demolition of a Gaza university, attacks near a Gaza hospital, video of Israeli troops mocking Palestinian suffering, and Israeli actions forcing women to give birth in the streets.
SEE: CAIR Condemns ‘Israeli War Crimes of the Day,’ Including New Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
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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, 202-742-6448, 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