The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned President Biden for enabling the murder of an American citizen in an Israeli bombing attack in Lebanon.
American citizen and Dearborn resident Kamel Jawad has reportedly been killed by Israeli forces during an Israeli air raid in Lebanon.
In a statement, CAIR said:
“We strongly condemn the Biden administration for directly enabling the Israeli government’s murder of American citizen and Dearborn resident Kamel Jawad in Lebanon. By illegally arming the Israeli government, justifying its indiscriminate attacks on Lebanese civilians, and refusing to evacuate Americans from Lebanon, President Biden bears direct responsibility for the murder of Kamel.
“Only politics and racism could explain the Biden administration’s disgusting pattern of indifference to Americans of color killed by the Israeli government, from journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to Aysenur Ezgi Eygi to Kamel Jawad.
“Every member of the Biden administration’s foreign policy team should be ashamed of themselves for enabling Israel’s war crimes against American citizens and countless other civilians. We do not expect this feckless and complicit administration to do anything to hold Kemal’s killers accountable, and we are done asking them to treat American Muslims killed overseas like human beings worthy of U.S. protection. Shame on them. That is all we can say.”
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@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