CAIR – New Poll: Nearly A Majority of Black American Voters Oppose U.S. Government Funding to Israel
According to Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), young Black voters might be turned off by President Joe Biden’s response to the Middle East conflict.
“And not just because he’s so supportive of Israel, which we all kind of expect,” Mitchell told theGrio, “but President Biden went above and beyond in not only supporting Israel but ignoring the suffering of the Palestinian people.”
He added, “We recognize the dehumanizing language that downplays people of color when they are victims of injustice, while only recognizing white people when they are victims of injustice.”
CAIR: Israeli Fire Kills Palestinian American Teen in Occupied West Bank (HuffPost)
Nihad Awad, the national executive director for the Council of American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement on Friday that Tawfiq’s death “again shows that President Biden’s unwillingness to call for an end to the ongoing Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing is resulting in the deaths of Americans citizens and their relatives.”
“The Biden administration has consistently shown its disregard for the killing and injuring of Americans of Palestinian descent,” Awad continued. “How many Palestinians must die before the Biden administration does what it would do for any other people similarly targeted by genocide?”