CAIR Md. Testifies Before State Board of Education Calling for Mandatory Palestine Cultural Literacy to Address Rising Hate in Schools
This morning, the Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, delivered formal testimony before the Maryland State Board of Education (MSDE) urging the Board to adopt mandatory, age-appropriate Palestine cultural literacy and anti-hate instruction in public schools as a necessary step to protect student […]
CAIR, Partners Obtain Federal Court Ruling Allowing Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine Suit Against U. of Missouri to Move Forward
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Baldwin and Vernon, LLC, and the First Amendment Clinic at Washington University in St. Louis welcome a federal court’s decision advancing a civil rights complaint filed by the University of Missouri’s chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine (MSJP), alleging that Mizzou Chancellor Mun Y. Choi unconstitutionally excluded MSJP […]
CAIR Says Jerry Seinfeld’s Claim that KKK is ‘Better’ Than ‘Free Palestine’ is Part of Dehumanization of Palestinians
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said that comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s recent claim that the racist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is somehow “better than” the growing worldwide campaign for a “Free Palestine” is part of the efforts of those supporting Israel’s genocide to dehumanize the […]
CAIR-Texas Condemns Anti-Palestinian Harassment of Med Student in San Antonio
The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the alleged anti-Palestinian harassment of a medical student at a Merit Coffee location in San Antonio after he was targeted for wearing a small Palestinian flag pin on his backpack. According to media […]