CAIR: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fact-Checking Announcement Is Worse Than You Think – Slate
CAIR: Yellowstone shooters’ white nationalist leanings ‘nothing new,’ community members say – Jackson Hole News & Guide
“Bigotry in all its forms must be repudiated by our nation’s leaders and by ordinary Americans,” said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
CAIR-LA: Anti-hate groups critical of O.C. report charting hate crime decline in 2023 – Los Angeles Times
For other anti-hate organizations, an incomplete picture of O.C.’s hate climate goes beyond partial reporting by some law enforcement agencies.
“We know that in 2023, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian, and anti-Arab hate were at an all-time high,” said Amr Shabaik, CAIR-LA’s legal director. “The exclusion of community-based organizations and the sole reliance on incomplete numbers of hate crimes reported to law enforcement does not capture this reality.”
Shabaik added that CAIR’s national organization received the most biased-based complaints in its 30-year history in 2023, with the local Anaheim-based office reporting 600 complaints alone.
CAIR-MA: Mass. man accused of making antisemitic threats arrested after Nazi flag, ghost gun found in home – New York Post
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations praised local law enforcement for taking down the alleged Nazi supporter.
“We welcome the arrest of this suspect, thank law enforcement authorities for their action in the case and stand in solidarity with the Jewish community and all other communities of faith targeted by hatred and violence,” CAIR-MA Executive Director Tahirah Amatul-Wadud wrote in a statement.
CAIR: US Muslim group calls out Meta for Palestine censorship – Al Jazeera
CAIR-GA: Institution chains students to ground, they turn to each other in solidarity – Emory Wheel
Emory administrative officials’ actions reveal an ugly truth: They are vastly against student expression and advocacy for those whom the world maltreats. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Georgia chapter filed a complaint against Emory on April 5 for fostering a “hostile” and “anti-Palestinian environment,” which they claimed violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Later that month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil rights launched an investigation into the complaint.
CAIR: US bill aims to target those involved in ICC investigations of Israeli officials and Benjamin Netanyahu – The New Arab
The Council on American Islamic Relations issued a statement condemning the bill for its targeting of international investigators, noting its focus on Israel.
“Congressional support for the International Criminal Court is eternally in flux, depending on whom the alleged war criminal is. Congress has shown they cannot be trusted to uphold universal human rights and apply the law equally across nation states,” reads CAIR-Florida’s statement.
CAIR: The US is manufacturing doubt about Gaza’s famine
Aid and Advocacy groups responded to the U.S. attack and FEWS Net retraction with swift condemnation. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a statement condemning the report’s removal:
“To reject a report on starvation in northern Gaza by appearing to boast about the fact that it has been successfully ethnically cleansed of its native population is just the latest example of Biden administration officials supporting, enabling and excusing Israel’s clear and open campaign of genocide in Gaza.”