CAIR-Houston: Pro-Palestine demonstrators disrupt Mayor John Whitmire’s address at boycotted Houston Iftar – Houston Chronicle
Sporting red latex gloves to symbolize the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in Israel’s monthslong bombardment of the Gaza Strip, dozens of protesters led by the group Houston for Palestinian Liberation stood up at the beginning of Whitmire’s keynote address Sunday evening at the Bayou City Event Center. They unfurled a banner that read “No ceasefire, no iftar” as they chanted pro-Palestine slogans.
Whitmire drew the ire of the protest group and prominent Muslim organizations in Houston after a meeting with Muslim community leaders earlier this month in which he reportedly refused to support a ceasefire in Gaza. Organizations including the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, Al Noor Masjid, Muslims United Political Action Committee and the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Houston chapter boycotted Sunday’s iftar event, saying in an open letter that they would not attend unless Whitmire and other Houston-area officials who “failed to call for a ceasefire” were uninvited.
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Council Member Shahana Hanif, a Muslim progressive, has called on mosques not to invite Adams in, and the nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations has backed a boycott of Adams’ own Iftar event planned for Tuesday.
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