The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded a call by the NAACP for President Joe Biden to “indefinitely” halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and to put pressure on Israel to end its genocide in Gaza.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“We welcome this principled stance by the NAACP as recognition that civil and human rights are universal and should be honored in our nation and worldwide. As a Black American who received my first NAACP membership card before I was a teenager, I am deeply grateful that our community’s preeminent civil rights organization has called for an end to the transfer of U.S. weapons to the openly racist and genocidal Israeli government.
“This is a historic moment which shows that the attempts to smear and silence Black Americans who recognize Palestinian humanity is failing.”
Yesterday, CAIR called on X (formerly Twitter) and other social media companies to shut down a secret campaign by the far-right Israeli government to pressure Congress to continue the flow of taxpayer funds for its genocide in Gaza and called on President Biden to condemn the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Washington, D.C., based CAIR also called for international action after a report by Oxfam found that “85 percent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted” and that thousands of displaced people are being forced to use one toilet.
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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