(Staten Island Advance) The Islamic Leadership Council of New York is condemning the state Legislature’s first Muslim-African American lawmaker, Island Assemblyman Charles Fall, for his recent trip to Israel.
Fall and other members of the Assembly went on a trip to Israel last week sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY), which regularly sponsors trips to Israel for lawmakers.
But the Islamic Leadership Council of New York, which represents more than 90 mosques and Muslim organizations across the state, some of which supported Fall before he was elected to the Assembly, view JCRC trips as Zionist “propaganda trips” that only provide a “one-sided and pro-Israel” narrative of the region.
