The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned remarks by Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks that appeared to endorse the idea of giving a “blank check to Israel” to “finish the job quickly” by carpet bombing Gaza.
“If you need to carpet bomb the area, do it. Just get it done. Rip the band-aid off,” Brooks told reporters when explaining his own understanding of what President Trump’s Gaza policy would be following an address to the Republican National Convention.
In a statement, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said:
“The Republican Jewish Coalition leader’s apparent support for the genocidal idea of carpet-bombing Gaza speaks volumes about the systematic, racist dehumanization of the Palestinian people. Genocide is wrong, no matter its victim. Republican elected officials should renounce this genocidal rhetoric, as well as the Israeli government’s ongoing use of American taxpayer dollars to bomb churches, mosques, hospitals, schools, refugee camps, and innocent men, women and children across Gaza.”
Yesterday, CAIR expressed deep concern that President Biden is either misstating his own policy on Gaza or receiving incorrect information from White House’s national security staff after he made numerous false statements about Gaza during a recent interview.
CAIR also condemned the killing of 48 Palestinians, among them children, in Israeli airstrikes on schools in Gaza and the killing more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into Tuesday by Israeli airstrikes.
SEE: Children among 48 killed in Israeli air attacks on Gaza IDP site, school
Israeli strikes in southern, central Gaza kill more than 60 Palestinians, including in ‘safe zone’
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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