CAIR-WA – Joint Statement: US Sanctions on Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Erodes International Law – Human Rights Watch
CAIR: Arthur Waskow, pioneering social justice rabbi, dies – Religion News Service
CAIR: New polling explores Muslim Americans’ priorities, diversity, Gaza views and 2024 decisions – Spectrum News
CAIR: UMD Students for Justice in Palestine petitions to cancel event with IDF soldiers – The Diamondback
The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and CAIR Maryland released a statement Saturday expressing their opposition to the event and the presence of the Israeli soldiers on campus. The chapter also created a petition urging the university to adopt a “‘no platform for war criminals’ policy.”
“We cannot allow war criminals to be celebrated while students at this very university are restricted from mourning Gaza’s dead,” the petition read. “Our university must choose a side: the side of humanity and justice, or to side with genocide and complicity.”
CAIR-MN: Fresh details, surveillance photos released in Temple Israel vandalism in Minneapolis – Star Tribune
Earlier in the fall, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also voiced concerns over two separate incidents at the Al Hikma Mosque in Minneapolis. Police said they made an arrest in that case.
According to CAIR, an individual started a fire outside the building Sept. 29, and the same person returned days later and broke into the building.