The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Trump administration to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accountable for the killing of an American teenager in the occupied West Bank yesterday.
CAIR also urged President Trump to reject Netanyahu’s push for the United States to go to war with Iran during his visit to the White House.
Israeli soldiers reportedly killed 14-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Rabea and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night.
SEE: Palestinian American teen shot dead by Israeli soldiers in West Bank, official says | CNN
In a statement, CAIR said:
“The Trump administration’s foreign policy has so far been Israel First, not America First. That’s why President Trump is rolling out the red carpet for indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu even though the man is a mass murderer who just added an American child to his list of victims.
“President Trump should hold Netanyahu accountable for the murder of 14-year-old Omar Rabea, force him to end the genocide in Gaza, and reject his efforts to pull the United States into a disastrous war on Iran.
“Donald Trump has been behaving as if Benjamin Netanyahu is the President of the United States. This pattern must end before more Americans, Palestinians, and even Israelis, pay the price for Benjamin Netanyahu’s desperation to remain in power.”
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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