The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on members of the U.S. House of Representatives to reject “one-sided, and dishonest” proposals about campus antisemitism that ignore anti-Palestinian racism and conflate criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“We call on the House to reject both the proposed antisemitism resolution and bill, which completely ignore anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim discrimination on college campuses, and which would be used to falsely conflate condemnation of the Israeli government with antisemitism.
“These one-sided, dishonest, politically-motivated proposals are not designed to protect college students; they are designed to silence college students who protest the Israeli government’s war crimes, including thousands of Jewish, Muslim and Palestinian students leading sit-ins across our nation.
“Creating a federal official to police domestic speech and silence criticism of the Israeli government under the guise of fighting antisemitism would escalate the McCarthy-era hysteria threatening student activists on college campuses.
“Congress must stop trying to smear and silence college students and start focusing on ending the U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza that has triggered these student protests.”
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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