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CAIR in the News, Feb. 13, 2024

CAIR: Family of Palestinian-American detained by Israel seeks her release. ‘I want my mother back’ – AP

“I want my mother back,” her son, Ibrahim Esmail, told a news conference on Monday hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.

CAIR-MN: Feds investigating Edina Public Schools for discrimination – Star Tribune

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR-MN, said the student walkout was held because Edina schools released a statement on Oct. 7 acknowledging Jewish students’ pain without acknowledging Muslim students’ pain or issuing another statement after the Israeli bombing campaign began in Gaza.

CAIR-MN: Federal investigation into Edina Public Schools over discrimination against Somali-American students

CAIR-SFBA: University pressure mounts to end pro-Palestine sit-in – The Stanford Daily

NAACP and the Council on American-Islamic Relations endorsed the sit-in and criticized University pressure to cease overnight demonstration.

CAIR: Gretna family demands US government do more to get mother released from Israeli prison

CAIR: Families of detained Palestinian Americans decry US government’s silence – Al Jazeera

“We’ve pleaded with the US government,” Elagha, a law student at Northwestern University in Chicago, explained. “The administration is fully failing in its duty.”

Hers is one of several families pushing for the protection of Palestinian Americans taken into Israeli custody, as the war on Gaza stretches on. They gathered in Washington, DC, for a news conference on Monday to press for action…

Suliman Hamed, a Louisiana resident, shared a similar experience at the event, hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Biden has failed to hold Israel accountable for attacking Americans: CAIR

CAIR-LA: New Horizon School Pasadena Welcomes Shaheen Nasser of CAIR-LA

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