The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said President Trump’s use of “Palestinian” as a racial slur is “beneath the dignity of his office.”
President Donald Trump today said in an Oval Office meeting that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., “is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore.”
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad, who is himself of Palestinian heritage, said:
“President Trump’s use of the term ‘Palestinian’ as a racial slur is offensive and beneath the dignity of his office. He should apologize to the Palestinian and American people. It is the continuing dehumanization of the Palestinian people that has resulted in horrific hate crimes against Palestinian-Americans, the U.S.-enabled genocide in Gaza, and decades of denial of Palestinian human rights by successive presidential administrations.”
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