CAIR-LA Announces Successful Resolution in Complaint Filed Against UCLA Medical School for Discrimination Targeting Muslim Palestinian-American Med Student
The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today announced the successful resolution of a federal civil rights complaint filed last year against the University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) for allegedly violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On July […]
CAIR Designates N. Arizona U., U. of Pittsburgh as Hostile Campuses for Targeting Anti-Genocide Voices
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today designated Northern Arizona University (NAU) and the University of Pittsburgh (UPitt) as Hostile Campuses due to ongoing suppression, intimidation, and criminalization of student activism advocating for Palestinian human rights and opposing genocide. Despite public commitments to free expression and diversity, both institutions have escalated punitive […]
CAIR-SFBA Welcomes Hate Crime Charges in Attack on Indian Mother and Child in Fremont
The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed hate crime charges filed by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office against a man accused of assaulting an Indian woman and her children at a Fremont McDonald’s earlier this month. According to […]
CAIR Applauds Sen. Van Hollen’s Attempt to Meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador Prison
The Maryland office and national headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded the attempt by Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an El Salvador prison where he was negligently sent by the Trump administration. Van Hollen was denied a meeting or phone call with Garcia, but he did […]
60+ Faith-Based, Civil Rights and Human Rights Groups Oppose Sen. Cassidy’s Probe of American Muslims for Palestine
Today, more than 60 national, regional, and state faith-based, civil rights, and human rights organizations – including Muslim, Jewish, and Christian groups – sent a joint letter to U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, to express strong support for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and to […]
CAIR-Ohio Calls for Hate Crime Probe into Islamophobic Threat Sent to Muslim Woman’s Home
The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Ohio) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to conduct a hate crime investigation into an Islamophobic and threatening letter reportedly sent to a Muslim University of Cincinnati student’s home. The woman, who heads the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at her […]
CAIR Repeats Call for U.S., International Media to Speak Out After Israel Murders Gaza Journalist Fatima Hassouneh, 10 Members of Her Family
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on U.S. and international media to finally speak out against Israel’s intentional targeting of journalists in Gaza after a Palestinian journalist and 10 members of her family were slaughtered in an Israeli air strike. Israel reportedly bombed the Gaza home of […]
CAIR Urges Tennessee Lawmakers to Reject Bill to Keep Confederate Flag in County Seal
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged Tennessee lawmakers to reject a bill that would keep a Confederate flag on a county seal in that state. That bill, which could be used to protect the seal of Williamson County that shows a Confederate flag draped […]
CAIR-GA: GA Civil Rights Organizations, Kuck Baxter Immigration to Address International Students’ Visa Revocations
On Thursday, April 17, Georgia Civil Rights organizations, including CAIR-Georgia, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, American Civil Liberties Union-Georgia – and Kuck Baxter Immigration, a private immigration law firm, plan to hold a press conference to address the visa revocations of international students by the U.S. Department of State, the students’ illegal status terminations by the U.S. […]
CAIR Welcomes Harvard’s Rejection of Trump Demands, Urges University to Support Anti-Genocide Students
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed Harvard University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s efforts to stifle academic freedom, while continuing to urge the university to protect anti-genocide students and faculty. The Trump administration froze more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts after the university rejected […]