CAIR: US Holocaust Memorial Council Member Says Gazans Are “Fundamentally Evil” – Hyperallergic
CAIR: Protest planned in Washington as Netanyahu meets Trump amid Gaza truce – TRT World
CAIR: What could be worse than the Muslim ban? Plenty. – Religion News Service
Second, it sets up a 60-day window for the State and Justice Departments, as well as Homeland Security and other intelligence officials, to pinpoint countries, arguably those without a consulate or U.S. embassy, whose “vetting and screening processes are so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.”
These steps have several civil rights organizations, particularly those advocating for Muslim, Arab and Palestinian American communities, worried. “The danger is that it’s not (targeting) Muslims per se. It’s for anyone who holds any public discourse or discussion that could be linked to criticizing the country of Israel,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan.
“There could be discussions on university campuses, (or students) could participate (in anything) from encampments to social media posts, and that could constitute, in this ambiguous language, views that are hostile to the United States,” Walid told me.
CAIR: Advocates warn Trump’s threat to deport pro-Palestine students harms all – Al Jazeera
“The order completely ignores real and documented incidents of anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim violence against American college students by pro-Israel extremists,” CAIR wrote in its statement.
It also called the order an “attempt to smear the many Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian and other college students who protested” the war together.
CAIR: Trump’s Antisemitism Order Leaves Many Questions Unanswered – Inside Higher
Trump’s order is “a dishonest, overbroad and unenforceable attempt to smear college students who protested against the Israeli government’s genocidal war on Gaza in overwhelmingly peaceful ways,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote in a news release. “The broad language of the order appears to threaten deportation based on unprovable ideological tests and for mere participation in any anti-genocide protests, which the order’s fact sheet broadly mischaracterizes as ‘pro-jihadist,’ ‘violent’ and ‘antisemitic.’”