The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Biden administration to reverse its plan to give the genocidal Israeli government $3.5 billion to spend on U.S. weapons and force war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to the ceasefire proposal that he keeps attempting to sabotage.
In a statement, CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw said:
“The mountain of evidence of Israel’s ever-expanding genocide of Palestinians isn’t just metaphorical—it’s a literal mountain built from the dead, dismembered and charred bodies of almost 40,000 Palestinians, lives cut short by U.S.-funded or approved weapons.
“This horrific genocidal campaign grows with every delivery of arms approved by President Biden and Vice President Harris, a testament not to security, but to complicity. If there were even a shred of moral clarity in the Biden and Harris administration, they would halt these weapons transfers and refuse to further fuel a genocide that stains the conscience of our nation.
“This release of billions of taxpayer dollars for use in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza must be reversed and the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu must be forced to end that genocide.”
On Saturday, CAIR said that if President Biden “gives a damn about human life,” he will freeze the delivery of weapons to Israel and force a ceasefire after Israel slaughtered more than 100 Palestinians at prayer in Gaza.
CAIR called the mass slaughter of Palestinian worshipers “an attack on Islam.”
Israel has already slaughtered some 40,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and has systematically-destroyed the civilian infrastructure in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, mass starvation and genocide.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@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