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Conference in Baltimore features Islamist speakers with antisemitic histories Hatem Bazian, who was on a panel at the three-day event, said at a 2004 San Francisco rally: 'It’s about time that we have an intifada in this country.'

June 12, 2023 Unlisted Author

(JNS) The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) concluded their three-day annual conference late last month at the Baltimore Convention Center. A number of activists and clerics with histories of antisemitism and anti-Israel statements were listed […]

Lipstadt: Aware of CAIR’s antisemitic past, giving them a chance to overcome Lipstadt's Combating Antisemitism Strategy was criticized for including CAIR despite it being known for its antisemitism and anti-Israel comments.

June 11, 2023 Zvika Klein

(Jerusalem Post) Deborah Lipstadt, United States special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism, knows that there are Jewish leaders who are upset about the way her historic Combating Antisemitism Strategy was launched a few weeks ago at the White House, but she […]

Va. board member brags about using taxpayers’ $3B for ‘Muslim power,’ pushing Palestinian agenda in schools Fairfax County school board member, Abrar Omeish, previously refused to vote on a motion that would commemorate Sept. 11 victims

March 14, 2023 Hannah Grossman

(Fox) A controversial Fairfax, Virginia, school board member, Abrar Omeish, who previously refused to vote on a motion that would commemorate Sept. 11 victims, shared plans to use $3 billion available in the district’s budget for a Palestinian agenda before she was […]

Ron DeSantis: Republican rising star alarms Muslim, Palestinian communities As the Florida governor positions himself for a possible presidential bid, activists and organisers say DeSantis reminds them of bigoted rhetoric birthed in US-led 'war on terror'

December 5, 2022 Umar A. Farooq

(Middle East Eye) In 2006, then-Navy officer Ron DeSantis was an appointed attorney supporting the US military’s mission at Guantanamo Bay. Not much is officially known about his months-long stint at the prison, which at its peak held nearly 800 Muslim men […]

Legislation seeks to ensure halal, kosher foods available in hospitals, schools

November 21, 2022 Madhu Krishnamurthy

(Daily Herald) As suburban families prepare to come together this week for Thanksgiving meals, among the meat options they might find at the grocer are halal and kosher turkeys. Halal (permissible) and kosher (pure, proper or suitable for consumption) meats and foods […]

Rashida Tlaib: Terrorist-affiliated charities ‘inspire me every single day’

October 24, 2022 Steven Emerson

(IPT) When U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib argued last month that true progressives cannot “back Israel’s apartheid government,” she and her supporters insisted it wasn’t an antisemitic statement covering the vast majority of American Jews. As I noted at the time, however, the […]

American Islamists mourn MB cleric who defended Hitler and called for murdering Jews

September 29, 2022 Abha Shankar

(IPT) American Islamists rushed to offer tributes this week to a radical Egyptian cleric and spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who had a long-established support for violent jihad and murdering Jews. The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of […]

CAIR accuses Democratic lawmakers of Islamophobia for criticizing Rep. Tlaib’s anti-Israel remarks

September 22, 2022 Kerry Picket

(Washington Times) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s largest Muslim advocacy group, called on all Democratic House members Thursday “not to engage in dishonest, Islamophobic attacks” on Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her latest remarks about Israel. Ms. Tlaib, Michigan Democrat, reignited […]

Rashida Tlaib says progressives cannot support Israel’s government, sparking sharp criticism from fellow Democrats

September 21, 2022 Ron Kampeas

(JTA) It’s an argument that has percolated for years in salons and on social media and now members of Congress are duking it out: What fits better into the “progressive” portmanteau, supporting or opposing Israeli policies? Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat […]

Rashida Tlaib campaign events in 2018 were organized by alleged terror financiers

July 18, 2022 Andrew Kerr

(Washington Examiner) Two men who held key positions at nonprofit groups that were found liable in a Hamas terror financing scheme helped organize campaign fundraising events for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) in 2018. The men, who organized events that were paid for […]

Reps. Omar and Tlaib among Democrats tied to group with alleged links to Hamas slaying

July 13, 2022 Andrew Kerr

(Washington Examiner) At least eight Democratic members of Congress share close ties to a nonprofit group that is now subject to discovery in a landmark federal civil lawsuit that seeks to hold the group financially liable for the terrorist slaying of an […]

Meet the Cori Bush activist who wants to burn Jews alive Neveen Ayesh wants to 'set Israel on fire'

July 12, 2022 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) spent years cultivating a relationship with a pro-Palestinian activist who once tweeted that she wants to “set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in […]

Government-funded Canada Muslim org hosts anti-LGBTQ, pro-terrorism speakers One speaker has said in the past that all homosexuals deserve the death penalty, and another praised terrorist attacks from the recent terrorism wave in Israel.

July 1, 2022 Michael Starr

(Jerusalem Post) Featured speakers who have supported terrorism, antisemitic conspiracy theories and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments are being hosted at a Friday Toronto convention by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), which has received millions of dollars in funding from the Canadian government for […]

The obvious answer to Dana Milbank’s question

June 23, 2022 Steven Emerson

(IPT) “Why not?” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank asked that simple question last week after the normally publicity-mad Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told him it had nothing to say about a BDS chapter’s promotion of a “mapping project” condemned as antisemitic […]

Federal judge rejects American Muslims for Palestine motion to dismiss decades-old terror-financing case The family of teenager David Boim is seeking to collect $156 million from groups alleged to have provided funding to Hamas

May 19, 2022 Melissa Weiss

(Jewish Insider) A federal judge in Illinois rejected a motion for dismissal by defendants in a decades-old legal fight waged by the family of a slain Jewish teenager, whose parents allege that the defendants had, under other identities, provided funding to Hamas, […]

Zahra Billoo removed as keynote speaker at San Mateo women’s conference

February 10, 2022 Emma Goss

(Jewish News of Northern California) Zahra Billoo, a Muslim civil rights attorney and activist in the Bay Area who came under fire recently for controversial remarks attacking mainstream Jewish organizations, has been removed as a keynote speaker from San Mateo County’s RISE […]

The American Islamist campaign to free Aafia Siddiqui

January 15, 2022 Steven Emerson

(IPT) Most Americans may not have heard of Aafia Siddiqui before Saturday, when a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, outside Dallas, and took the rabbi and three congregants hostage. Thankfully, the standoff ended without any hostage being harmed. But […]

Muslim civil rights group leader continues attacks on ‘Zionists’ as she goes on sabbatical

December 21, 2021 Ron Kampeas

(JTA) A Muslim civil rights leader who stirred outrage when she said “polite Zionists” like Jewish federations “are not your friends” continued her critique of “Zionists” as she announced that she is going on a sabbatical. “I am still in the middle […]

Head of ADL blasts Muslim advocacy org CAIR for ‘blatant antisemitism’

December 13, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Algemeiner) The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a strong condemnation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Sunday after the Muslim advocacy group backed racist and antisemitic statements made by one of its executive directors, accusing both of “blatant […]

CAIR supports member that said ‘Zionist synagogues’ behind Islamophobia Zahra Billoo claimed Zionist organizations were behind Islamophobia, police brutality, and border control.

December 12, 2021 Michael Starr

(Jerusalem Post) After the outrage following remarks by CAIR San Francisco executive director Zahra Billoo — who said that Jewish Zionist organizations are “enemies” who are part of a conspiracy behind [Islamophobia] — the Council on American-Islamic Relations came out in support […]

Muslim leader’s warning about Hillel, ADL and other pro-Israel groups prompts backlash

December 8, 2021 Arno Rosenfeld

(Forward) A speech by a leader in the Council on American-Islamic [Relations] — the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group — drew a concerned response from some pro-Israel Jewish groups after she warned that Muslims who support Palestinian rights should not work […]

Zionists are behind Islamophobia, US police brutality — CAIR official Billoo claimed Zionist organizations were behind Islamophobia, police brutality and [US border control]

December 6, 2021 Michael Starr

(Jerusalem Post) “Zionist synagogues,” the Anti-Defamation League, Hillel and other Jewish organizations are “enemies” who are part of a conspiracy behind [Islamophobia], American police brutality, and US border control, according to a speech made by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) San […]

Head of Palestinian American lobby group joins conference with terror-group members Osama Abuirshaid has openly expressed anti-Semitic views in the past; has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood; and has voiced support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.

December 3, 2021 Unlisted Author

(JNS) The executive director of the new lobby group Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) was a guest speaker at a recent conference in Jordan that also hosted members of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine […]

CAIR’s Awad considers Tel Aviv ‘occupied,’ prays for its liberation

December 1, 2021 Steven Emerson

(IPT) Nihad Awad normally presents himself as mild mannered and measured. That demeanor has helped the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) co-founder and executive director appear on national news channels and be welcomed in congressional offices. But his true radicalism was exposed […]

US Islamist groups call for ‘Lady al-Qaeda’ to be set free CAIR, AMP, ICNA and MAS continue to embrace their pro-terrorist roots.

November 26, 2021 Joe Kaufman

(FrontPage) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and the Muslim American Society (MAS) all have their foundings linked inseparably with militant Islamic ideologies. For CAIR and AMP it was Hamas, […]

Meeks won’t say if he’ll return donation from activist who called Israel a ‘parasite’

October 7, 2021 Alana Goodman

(Free Beacon) House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.) is silent on whether he will return a $3,000 donation from a prominent Palestinian activist who called Israel a “parasite” that “sucks the blood of America.” Osama Abuirshaid, the executive director […]

September 11 event to feature speakers affiliated with terrorists A 9/11 event sponsored by Rutgers University and San Francisco State University academic departments will feature speakers affiliated with terrorists or who have otherwise supported terrorism.

September 10, 2021 Philip Caldwell

(Free Beacon) Rutgers University and San Francisco State University are set to host a discussion panel on the Sept. 11 attacks that will feature speakers with sympathies for terrorists. Several organizations that will cosponsor the event have also praised terrorists and voiced […]

Tlaib’s campaign paid out over $100K to a firm founded by defund the police, anti-Israel activist Rasha Mubarak tweeted 'abolish the police' in April 2021

July 22, 2021 Cameron Cawthorne

(Fox) The campaign of “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has paid out over $100,000 for “fundraising consulting” to a Florida-based progressive firm founded and operated by a defund the police and anti-Israel activist, campaign filings show. Tlaib’s campaign and PAC sent […]

Tlaib ally runs organization accused of promoting anti-Semitism Hatem Bazian has claimed that the US Congress is an 'Israeli-occupied territory'

June 2, 2021 Houston Keene

(Fox) An ally to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., runs an organization that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says has “provided a platform for anti-Semitism.” University of California at Berkeley instructor Hatem Bazian is a Tlaib ally and donor who is also a co-founder […]

CAIR to boycott White House Eid celebration over Israel support The Muslim advocacy group said it was 'incredibly disappointed and deeply disturbed' by the administration’s position in response to the violence.

May 15, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Politico) The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Saturday said it will boycott the traditional White House Eid celebration in protest at the Biden administration’s actions amid escalating violence between Israeli and Palestinian forces. President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Reps. Rashida Tlaib and André Carson protest outside Biden’s State Department for Palestine

May 11, 2021 Aila Slisco

(Newsweek) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.) joined a pro-Palestinian protest that took place outside the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Tlaib and Carson both spoke at the event amid the escalating conflict pitting the Israeli military […]

CAIR to Blinken: Don’t call it ‘the Palestinian situation.’ It’s ‘apartheid’ or ‘campaign of terror’

March 4, 2021 Patrick Goodenough

(CNS) Two leading American Muslim organizations on Thursday slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken for voicing opposition to the International Criminal Court decision to open an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories. American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and the Council […]

PA Rep. Guy Reschenthaler blasts Rashida Tlaib, demands swift action

December 5, 2020 Joshua Klein

(Breitbart) In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Friday, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for recent anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric, urging his colleagues “across the aisle” to join him in calling for Tlaib’s immediate removal from all […]

Omar and Tlaib headline anti-Israel hatefest Dem lawmakers join Hamas-tied anti-Semites at American Muslims for Palestine annual conference

December 2, 2020 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) Democratic representatives Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Betty McCollum (Minn.) headlined a conference this weekend run by one of the nation’s most prolific anti-Israel advocacy groups, lending their support to an organization that champions boycotts of Israel and […]

New York mosques to protest Macron’s ‘blatant disrespect of the prophet’

October 30, 2020 Steven Emerson

(IPT) A consortium of New York mosques plans to protest at the French Consulate in Manhattan this Sunday to express their rage at Emmanuel Macron’s support for publishing caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. “The French President is directly provoking the Muslim world […]

Radical Muslim infighting: AMP vs. Emgage For the Hamas-linked AMP, some Islamists are just not anti-Zionist enough.

October 7, 2020 Joe Kaufman

(FrontPage) American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Emgage are both radical Muslim organizations found in the US. Yet, one of these organizations, AMP, has taken issue with what it claims to be the other’s involvement with Zionist groups, something that is far […]

US congresswoman Betty McCollum receives award for Palestinian children advocacy McCollum thanked American Muslims for Palestine for the 'Champion of Palestinian Rights Award' and accepted it on behalf of 'those who stand up to support human rights for children'

September 16, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Middle East Eye) A Palestinian American rights and advocacy group awarded US Congresswoman Betty McCollum on Tuesday with an award for her work advocating for Palestinian human rights. Speaking at the Virtual Palestine Advocacy Day hosted by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), […]

House Dems partner with extreme anti-Israel group on day of historic Israel peace deal

September 16, 2020 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) Several House Democrats teamed up with a leading anti-Israel organization on Tuesday as part of the group’s “Palestine advocacy days,” an event that has raised eyebrows for being held on the same day the Trump administration announced a historic peace […]

‘Palestinian self-determination not for sale’: Protesters in US rally against normalisation Hundreds gather outside the White House to condemn normalisation deals between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates

September 15, 2020 Umar A. Farooq

(Middle East Eye) As US President Donald Trump brought together leaders from Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to sign deals to establish diplomatic relations, just outside of the White House, hundreds of Palestinians, civil rights and advocacy groups gathered in […]

Linda Sarsour, who raised funds for terrorist, featured as DNC 2020 speaker

August 18, 2020 Jordan Davidson

(Federalist) Former Women’s March leader and Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate Linda Sarsour officially spoke in the Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly meeting at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Sarsour was ousted from her Women’s March position over public antisemitic comments. In […]

ADL condemns CAIR NJ head for saying Israel is ‘choking the Palestinian people’ during ‘Day of Rage’ protest

July 10, 2020 Aaron Bandler

(Jewish Journal) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) New York / New Jersey issued a joint statement with the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey (JFNNJ) on July 10 condemning the head of New Jersey’s Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for accusing Israel of “choking” […]

Sarsour group backs ‘no Zionists’ Juneteenth rally

June 23, 2020 Ariel Behar

(IPT) It was an event to celebrate freedom and protest ongoing bigotry and discrimination. But the group Muslims4Abolition, which wants “… to be part of the movement to abolish bail, abolish jails, abolish the police, abolish prisons,” openly engaged in bigotry and […]

Soros-funded Muslim group associated with homophobia, terrorist defenders endorses Biden Biden 'honored' by endorsement

April 18, 2020 Joe Schoffstall

(Free Beacon) A George Soros-backed Muslim group, which cohosts a conference that in recent years drew speakers who called homosexuality a “disease” and defended terrorist groups, announced its endorsement of Joe Biden for president. Emgage, which bills itself as the largest Muslim […]

Congresswomen to speak at anti-Israel group’s ‘online gala’

April 16, 2020 Steven Emerson

(IPT) Islamist groups, like many others, are doing what they can to adjust to life during the coronavirus. Conferences and fundraising dinners are off the table, so many are turning to online gatherings. American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a group that in […]

ViacomCBS to host BDS advocate Linda Sarsour as part of Women’s History Month 'Why would they help promote the idea of someone who has spoken in such ugly terms about American Jews and the victims of Islamist violence? It’s unbelievable!' exclaimed CAMERA researcher Dexter Van Zile.

March 8, 2020 Jackson Richman

(JNS) ViacomCBS is scheduled to host this month former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour, who is known for her support of the anti-Israel BDS movement and has been accused of spreading anti-Semitism. “Join us 3/11 at 4:30 pm EST for a conversation […]

US: Hundreds gather in DC to back Turkey amid Idlib op Demonstrators throw their support behind Turkey's efforts against Syrian regime

March 2, 2020 Servet Günerigök

(Anadolu) Hundreds of people from the Turkish-American community gathered outside the White House this weekend to voice their support for Turkey’s efforts to end the Assad regime’s violence in northwestern Syria. The rally Saturday afternoon in Lafayette Square came after the Syrian […]

Tlaib to address American Muslims for Palestine gala The anti-Israel group supports the BDS movement and was founded by Hatem Bazian, who co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine.

February 28, 2020 Unlisted Author

(JNS) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is scheduled to address the annual gala on Saturday as the guest of honor for the Missouri chapter of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Tlaib was the keynote speaker at AMP’s annual national conference in November 2019, […]

Tlaib donor praised terror backer who called for new Holocaust

January 29, 2020 Cameron Cawthorne

(Free Beacon) A Muslim community leader accused of having financial ties to Hamas donated to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D., Mich.) campaign last month, records show. Salah Sarsour, an alleged Hamas sympathizer who once boasted about meeting a Muslim Brotherhood leader known for […]

Rashida Tlaib and Rasha Mubarak, American Muslims for Hamas Why are Democrats ignoring the Islamist fifth column infiltrating their party?

January 16, 2020 Joe Kaufman

(FrontPage) Following the founding of Hamas in 1987, the Muslim Brotherhood set up worldwide committees to assist the newly formed terrorist group. In the US, it was called the Palestine Committee, and by the end of 1994, it would consist of four […]

Rashida Tlaib headlined anti-Semitic hate fest Other speakers have compared Israel to white supremacists, rapists

December 5, 2019 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) was the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by a Muslim organization that traffics in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and that counts among its supporters many who seek Israel’s destruction. Tlaib headlined the American Muslims for […]