CAIR: Girl Scouts of the USA apologize to St. Louis troop raising money for Gaza
CAIR Co-Hosts Maryland Muslim Lobby Day in Annapolis (Video)
CAIR Rep Joins MPAC Event to Thank South Africa for Israeli Genocide Case
CAIR-Philadelphia: Why they walked: Hear from UCC members why they joined week-long ‘Pilgrimage for Peace’ for Gaza
CAIR-MI: Key demographics for Biden in Michigan scrambled by Gaza war – Washington Examiner
People “recognize a double standard with the Biden administration,” according to Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s Michigan chapter.
“He was very quick to come out in and condemn the Putin regime for targeting civilians, but when it comes to Palestinian civilians being targeted by Israel, or when Yemeni civilians were being targeted by bombs given to the [United Arab Emirates] and Saudi Arabia, then that was all justified,” Walid, a black Muslim, said. “The reason why Black Lives Matter was started as a slogan is because black people felt that black lives didn’t matter as much in America as white lives. Well, it looks like white European lives matter more than Arab and Muslim lives to the Biden administration.”
CAIR: Michigan’s Muslim voters mobilize to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Democratic primary -Religion News Service
CAIR Rep Joins MPAC Event to Thank South Africa for Israeli Genocide Case
CAIR: Muslims account for 50,000 registered voters in Massachusetts -WGBH
CAIR: 73 Orgs Call on Meta to Stop Censoring Criticism of Zionism – The Wire
“Zionist” cannot be separated from the political ideology of “Zionism,” and both terms are explicitly unique and different from Jewish and/or Israeli identities. The proposed policy would too easily mischaracterize conversations about Zionists — and by extension, Zionism — as inherently antisemitic, harming Meta users and undermining efforts to dismantle real antisemitism and all forms of racism, extremism and oppression.
CAIR-SFBA: San José State University puts professor on leave over altercation with pro-Palestine student – Los Angeles Times
The Council on American-Islamic Relations celebrated the university’s swift move to place Roth on leave.
“Such an action is not only inexcusable but also a violation of the rights and safety of students,” said the group’s San Francisco Bay Area office.CAIR Calls for Probe of Possible Bias Motive for Incident Targeting Tennessee Mosque (Video