CAIR: ‘Sickening Beyond Words’: Biden Approves Another $20 Billion in Weapons for Israel – Common Dreams
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said Wednesday that “by approving another massive shipment of arms to the far-right Israeli government, the Biden administration is pouring gasoline on a fire that could engulf millions across the region.”
CAIR: Emory is on CAIR’s list of ‘Institutions of Particular Concern’ – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has designated three universities as “institutions of particular concern” because of the threat to the safety of Muslim, Arab, Jewish and other students and faculty who stand against occupation, apartheid and genocide. These universities are among the worst offenders who are promoting a campus environment where those who object to Israel’s decadeslong occupation, apartheid and genocidal treatment of Palestinians are most likely to be silenced, subjected to state force or otherwise harmed for their viewpoints.
These three universities are George Washington University, the University of California Los Angeles and Emory University.
CAIR: The “Dangerous” California Bill Inspired by Pro-Palestine Campus Protest Is Still Alive – The Intercept
The original version of the bill was bluntly aimed at criminalizing pro-Palestine protests when it was drafted, said Leena Sabagh, an advocate and a policy manager with the Council on Islamic-American Relations.
The original bill included a proposed ban on a “call for or support of genocide,” which Sabagh took as a direct attempt to prohibit the common protest slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The “genocide” language was eventually cut from the bill after pushback by free speech advocates and state assembly members who were concerned the ban would violate First Amendment rights.
“It was very clear who this bill was targeting,” Sabagh said, pointing to the original “genocide” provision. Students who support Palestine have already been met with intense pushback from schools, including police violence, arrests, and suspensions. The bill would give universities even more tools to punish students who are protesting in support of Palestine, she added.
CAIR-MN: Northeast Minneapolis mosque gets harassing and threatening phone calls – Star Tribune
In one instance, the caller sent a video link depicting the 2019 mosque massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, to a worshiper who had missed one of the calls, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) said.
“This is a clear intimidation and targeting of our mosque,” CAIR-MN Executive Director Jaylani Hussein said during a news conference at the mosque Tuesday. “This is unacceptable and alarming to our community.”
CAIR: US clears $20bn in arms sales for Israel as atrocities continue in Gaza – Al Jazeera
Instead, the US is “pouring gasoline on a fire that could engulf millions across the region, said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in a statement.
“The increasingly unhinged Israeli government has demonstrated time and again that it not only intends to continue its brutal genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, but also to provoke a broader regional war,” he said.
CAIR: Killings of Palestinian Journalists Continue – Aided by Uninterrupted Flow of US Arms – Palestine Chronicle
Ibrahim Hooper, National Communication Director at the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said:
“The only thing that can explain the shocking silence of American and international media professionals about the mass killing of their Palestinian colleagues is the decades-long and systematic dehumanization of the Palestinian people, in which the lives of Palestinians have lesser or no value. Journalists worldwide must begin to speak out about these killings and about the Israeli genocide in Gaza.”
CAIR: Mayor Adams joins NYC’s India Day Parade controversy over float – Gothamist
“The proposed float for the parade is a blatant attempt to glorify the illegal demolition of the historical Babri Mosque and celebrate ongoing violence and terror against 200 million Indian Muslims,” said a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Adams signed by a number of interfaith groups, including the Indian American Muslim Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Hindus for Human Rights. “This is not merely a cultural display but a vulgar celebration of anti-Muslim hate, bigotry, and religious supremacy.”
CAIR: Controversy over Ram Mandir tableau for India Day parade in New York explained: ‘Target of hate crime’ – The Week
As many as 22 civil society organisations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Hindus for Human Rights, and Federation of Indian American Christian Organisations of North America, wrote to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams asking for steps to ban the float.
In the letter, the organisations said the proposed float was a blatant attempt to glorify the illegal demolition of the historical Babri Mosque and celebrate ongoing violence and terror against 200 million Indian Muslims. “This is not merely a cultural display but a vulgar celebration of anti-Muslim hate, bigotry, and religious supremacy,” the organisations wrote.
CAIR-MA: Yusufi Vali, Wu’s outgoing deputy chief of staff, bids bittersweet farewell to Boston City Hall – Boston Globe
“He does unapologetically open doors and opportunities for people who ordinarily would not get those invitations and who ordinarily would be left out, and the significance of that is major,” said Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR: Palestinian-American plaintiffs file suit against US Attorney General over placement on terrorism watchlist – Jurist
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit Monday against US Attorney General Merrick Garland and other officials alleging two Palestinian individuals were wrongly placed on a terrorism watchlist. The lawsuit claims that the plaintiffs were placed on the list due to their “work and activism opposing Israel’s ongoing military attacks.”