Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization says Congress must threaten to oppose future military aid to stop Netanyahu
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/16/2025) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a Senate resolution signed by 28 senators that calls for the Trump administration to pursue an end to Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid and the war on Gaza.
CAIR encouraged all senators to sign the resolution.
S. RES. 224, which states that “the entire population of the Gaza Strip, an estimated 2,200,000 people, is facing acute levels of hunger” and “since January 2025, approximately 10,000 children have been identified as suffering from acute malnutrition.” The resolution “calls on the White House, Department of State, and other relevant United States Government agencies to urgently use all available diplomatic tools to bring about the release of the hostages, an immediate cessation of the blockade on food and humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians, and a durable end to the conflict in Gaza.”
ACTION ALERT: Contact Your Senators and Urge Them to Support S. RES. 224
In a statement, CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw said:
“We thank the U.S. senators who have sponsored a resolution that recognizes the man-made humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza and calls for the Trump administration to secure an end to the unconscionable blockade, the release of captives and an end to the war.
“Although we welcome this symbolic resolution, it will not stop Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal murder spree without the threat of losing U.S. diplomatic, military and financial support. Every single senator should co-sponsor this resolution and then go further by announcing they will not vote for any additional military aid to the Israeli government due to its ongoing war crimes.”
Israel has slaughtered more than 53,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children.
Yesterday, CAIR condemned the Israeli slaughter of more than 100 Palestinians on the day marking the 77th anniversary of the Nakba (May 15), during which Israeli forces carried out the ethnic cleansing of most of Palestine in 1948.
CAIR’s condemnation comes as Human Rights Watch said today that Israel’s total blockade of Gaza, in place since March 2, has become “a tool of extermination.”
Earlier this week, CAIR condemned the Israeli government’s escalating slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 22 children, as a “transparent attempt to sabotage” the Trump administration’s recent push to restart ceasefire negotiations and pursue an end to other regional conflicts.
CAIR also condemned the latest Israeli deadly bombings of Gaza hospitals as indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu says half of Gazans will be ethnically cleansed and there is “no way” Israel will halt its genocide in Gaza, even if a ceasefire is achieved.
Washington, D.C., based CAIR called on the Trump administration to drop U.S.-Israeli efforts to force starving Palestinians in Gaza into de facto concentration camps surrounded by the Israeli military in order to receive food and other humanitarian aid after the release of a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IFSPC) stating that Gaza’s entire population is at imminent risk of famine.
CAIR also condemned the “systematic abuse and torture” that Gaza detainees face in Israeli prisons as outlined in a report released today. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) report says that abuse is “an integral component of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.”
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
La misión de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensión del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.
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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