CAIR-MN: Minneapolis City Council Passes Resolution Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza
“We thank the council members, coalitions and community members who have been advocating for this in the last two months. This resolution is not just symbolic, but also very important and powerful, and it highlights how this issue is impacting our local community members and residents of Minneapolis,” Jaylani Hussein, executive director for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a public statement.
CAIR-NY: NYPD Probing Reported Chemical Attack Against Students During Pro-Palestinian Protest at Columbia (USA Today)
CAIR-Georgia Director Says Antisemitism Bill will ‘Be Used Specifically to Target Pro-Palestine Advocacy’ (Video)
CAIR-GA: Once Stalled, Georgia’s Antisemitism Bill Fast-Tracked Amid Growing War Tensions
CAIR-GA: Once Stalled, Georgia’s Antisemitism Bill Fast-Tracked Amid Growing War Tensions
After the Senate vote, Azka Mahmood, Georgia president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said her group will monitor how the law will be implemented, but she has concerns.
“The determination of intent as designed in this bill is problematic, and that’s the fear across a lot of communities, not just the Muslim community or the Palestinian community, but anyone who’s advocating or who’s critical of the state of Israel,” Mahmood said.
“And you know, it is a valid fear,” she added. “We’re not sure how this is going to be applied, if it’s going to be fair. It really depends on the prosecutors on how they want to take this kind of law. But historically we do know that this kind of legislation is used disproportionately against immigrants, minorities and people of color and that’s our fear.”
CAIR-LA: Jewish, Palestinian Leaders Speak Out on Gaza
Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, California:
“Palestinians living in Gaza are witnessing a genocide. Before the genocide, Palestinians all over historic Palestine — in Israel, the West Bank, or in Gaza — continue to be subjected to an apartheid system, as documented by every single human rights organization in the world, including Israeli ones. This is not me asserting; this is not a political statement. This is a factual statement made by every single human rights organization in the world today.”
CAIR: Florida Activists Push for Commission on Rise in Islamophobia