CAIR-LA Welcomes Hate Crime Charges in Simi Valley Attack Targeting Black Teenager
The Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today welcomed the hate crime charges filed against five suspects in connection with a violent attack targeting a Black teenager outside a movie theater in California’s Simi Valley over the summer. SEE: Hate crime charges filed against teen suspects in Simi Valley attack caught on video A widely […]
CAIR-LA Condemns USC’s ‘Disturbing’ Sale of Human Cadavers for Israeli Military Training, Calls for Transparency and Accountability
The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today condemned the University of Southern California (USC)’s “disturbing” sale of human cadavers to the U.S. military for surgical training for the Israeli military, which has been engaging in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza for nearly two years. SEE: USC sold dead […]
CAIR Calls on Johns Hopkins U. to Lift Suspension of Jewish Student Over Alleged Participation in Peaceful Campus Protest
The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to immediately lift the interim suspension of Rockwell Shapiro, a Jewish student entering his final year in good academic standing who has been barred from campus for over five months for his alleged participation in a peaceful protest […]
CAIR Condemns Israel’s Reported Abuses of Kidnapped Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/6/2025) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned Israeli occupation forces’ reported abuses and inhumane treatment of American citizens and civilian activists – including Greta Thunberg – abducted while en route to Gaza delivering humanitarian aid. According to multiple media reports, Global Sumud flotilla (GSF) […]
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CAIR in the News, October 6, 2025
CAIR: Van Jones Apologizes for Crass ‘Dead Gaza Baby’ Joke: ‘I Messed Up’ | Video – The Wrap That apology is “positive but insufficient,” The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement Sunday. CAIR also insisted Jones should “fully retract his false claim, acknowledge Israel’s responsibility for killing the children whose deaths he […]
CAIR Calls Van Jones Apology for Joking About Slaughtered Palestinian Children a ‘Positive But Insufficient’ Step
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said an apology issued by CNN commentator Van Jones after he mockingly and falsely dismissed images of slaughtered Palestinian children on social media as a foreign disinformation campaign aimed at young Americans is a “positive but insufficient step.” CAIR said that […]
CAIR-Texas Calls on State Leaders to Repudiate Violent Anti-Muslim Post by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller
The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on state leaders to repudiate a violent anti-Muslim social media post shared by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller that depicts “Islam” as a snake squeezing a cowboy’s leg, with a knife […]
CAIR Applauds Passage of Historic U. of Maryland Student Government Resolution Supporting Divestment from Israeli Apartheid
The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MD), the state’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded the University of Maryland Student Government Association’s unanimous decision to support the call for the university and its charitable foundation to cut all ties with companies, institutions and academic entities that support or profit […]