CAIR: After Japan snubs Israel for Nagasaki commemoration, U.S., other envoys plan to skip event – UPI
Meanwhile, theWashington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, America’s largest Muslim civil rights advocacy organization, was critical of the U.S. decision to reject the Nagasaki invite simply over Israel’s non-invite over Gaza.
“Instead of coming to the defense of a far-right genocidal government, our nation’s representatives around the world should embrace a universal standard of human rights and humanity that does not exclude the Palestinian people,” Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director, wrote in a statement while thanking Nagasaki officials for not inviting envoys of other nations’ to the ceremony currently engaged in alleged genocidal acts in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
CAIR: AIPAC’s Influence Targets American Democracy – Counter Currents
Robert McCaw, the government affairs department director for CAIR, dissected how AIPAC along with other pro-Israel organizations has long vilified Muslim organizations with distortions, hateful rhetoric, misinformation and false accusations of their being connected to designated terrorist groups. “The goal is to make our community politically radioactive, unapproachable and to deny us of being able to express our views.” He went on to say that AIPAC has also accused them of being unregistered foreign agents when AIPAC itself has operated for many years as such.
CAIR: Genocidal war: Palestinian Americans reflect on 300+ days of Gaza massacres – TRT World
CAIR-Houston: Is it Houston’s duty to translate hurricane info for the city’s 145 languages? – Chron
Days after Beryl reached the city, the Houston chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, issued a statement that called for “increased language access in communications” from city and county governments regarding emergency warnings and recovery efforts. CAIR-Houston provides resources to about 500,000 Muslims in the Greater Houston region, where an expanding number of people speak Arabic.
“In the wake of this disaster, it is clear that so many residents of our diverse city and region were not included in early communications about the storm and are not being included by way of their native language in government communications,” said CAIR-Houston director William White. “There is a need at this moment for government offices and agencies to offer translation services to community members.”