The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said that President Biden needs to change his policy, not just his rhetoric, after a reported ultimatum to Israel’s far-right leader Netanyahu that U.S. support in the ongoing Gaza genocide depends on “immediate” steps to protect civilians and aid workers.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“What the American people want is a change in policy, not just a change in rhetoric. President Biden must not wait to see how many more innocent people the far-right Israeli government kills before he decides to change course.
“The Israeli government’s slaughter of over 33,000 Palestinians, several Israeli hostages waving white flags, and of World Central Kitchen aid workers is more than enough reason for President Biden to stop enabling the Israeli government’s genocidal war on everyone in Gaza right now, without delay.”
Earlier today, CAIR said President Biden must act after a group of officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) warned that the Israeli-imposed and U.S.-backed starvation in Gaza is “unprecedented in modern history” and that the pace of hunger-related deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”
CAIR also condemned the torture that is reportedly resulting in the amputation of limbs of Palestinians held in Israeli detention centers and Israel’s reported use of AI software to carry out its mass slaughter in Gaza.
Yesterday, CAIR joined 80 advocacy Muslim, Palestinian, and allied organizations representing communities across the United States to send a letter to President Biden that objects to his recent decisions to both transfer more deadly weapons to the Israeli government and falsely certify that the Israeli government’s war on Gaza complies with U.S. law.
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