Nihad Awad

Academics & Education

Gottheimer urges NJ Education Board to reject CAIR’s calls to cut ties with ADL Gottheimer: ‘Now is not the time to dismiss critical resources to combat anti-Jewish bias and Holocaust distortion. Rather, educators should embrace them’

September 17, 2025   

(Jewish Insider) Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) wrote to Kathy Goldenberg, the president of the New Jersey State Board of Education, on Monday urging the state to reject calls from the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the state’s […]

Academics & Education

CAIR systematically trying to influence K-12 education across US, investigation finds A new Jewish Onliner investigation found that CAIR's efforts to influence young students extend far beyond Philadelphia, spanning New Jersey, Oklahoma, Florida, and Illinois

September 10, 2025   

(Jewish Onliner) Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) this week petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running what he termed “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives in public schools, following investigative reports that exposed controversial lesson plans […]

Academics & Education

Cotton to Education Department: Investigate ‘possibly illegal’ partnership between ‘pro-terrorist’ CAIR and K-12 schools The CAIR lesson plans include instructions not to use terms like 'jihadists' and 'radical Islamic terrorists' when discussing 9/11, and a course called 'American Jews and Political Power'

September 9, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country’s public schools. CAIR, whose leaders celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror […]

Academics & Education

CAIR-Philadelphia, whose leader blamed Israel for Oct. 7, announces partnership with local schools to make them ‘more inclusive’ The anti-Israel group provides educational materials including 'American Jews and Political Power: Myth or Reality'

August 28, 2025   

(Free Beacon) The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose executive director said that Israel is behind the “root causes of what is happening in Palestine/Israel,” announced this week that it is partnering with local schools to make them […]

Academics & Education

Cotton to IRS: Investigate terrorist-supporting Palestinian Youth Movement The group maintains ties to terror orgs and is illegally receiving tax-exempt donations, Arkansas senator says

August 22, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Friday formally petitioned the IRS to investigate the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) — a “virulently antisemitic” activist group that released maggots into Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hotel room last year — for potential […]

Government & Politics

CAIR letter to Marco Rubio: We’re being targeted for Palestine advocacy MEE is the first to obtain the letter sent by the Muslim-American rights group, which asks the top diplomat to clarify recent remarks he made

August 15, 2025   

(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to clarify comments he made on a radio show earlier this week, where he appeared to threaten the domestic non-profit group with a terror designation […]

Government & Politics

Tom Cotton presses IRS to probe CAIR’s tax-exempt status, citing ‘ties to terror organizations’ 'Tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a right, and it should not subsidize organizations with links to terrorism,' Arkansas senator writes

August 5, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is petitioning the IRS to formally investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for violations of its tax-exempt status, citing “ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,” according to a formal letter […]

Academics & Education

Elise Stefanik takes CUNY chancellor to task for hiring chief diversity official from CAIR: ‘Unacceptable to New York taxpayers’ Felix Matos Rodriguez said Saly Abd Alla, a former civil rights director for the pro-Hamas group, still works for the public university system

July 15, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) grilled City University of New York (CUNY) chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez over the school’s decision to hire Saly Abd Alla, a former employee of the pro-Hamas Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as its chief diversity officer. “In 2021, you hired […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Critics have meltdown and accuse Trump of imposing renewed ‘Muslim ban’ through ‘disgusting’ travel order Democrats say Trump is bucking 'core American values'

June 5, 2025   

(Fox) Democrat lawmakers and social media critics are accusing President Donald Trump of rolling out a “bigoted” travel ban they say is riddled with “Islamophobia.” “This discriminatory policy, which limits legal immigration, not only flies in the face of what our country […]

Government & Politics

CAIR leader who serves on California state civil rights panel cheers Biden’s cancer diagnosis, says Trump’s ‘time will come’ Zahra Billoo says Biden’s cancer diagnosis is 'God’s wrath' for his handling of the Israel-Hamas war

May 19, 2025   

(Free Beacon) An official with the anti-Israel Council on American-Islamic Relations who also serves on a California state civil rights board is cheering former president Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and expressed hope that President Donald Trump’s “time will come too,” citing the […]

Clothing

‘Outrageous,’ says Chicago Jewish Alliance of city’s mayor wearing keffiyeh 'The keffiyeh isn’t just a cultural symbol. Not anymore,' the organization wrote. 'It’s a flag of war.'

April 24, 2025   

(JNS) The Chicago Jewish Alliance denounced Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday after the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations posted a photo of him wearing a keffiyeh to celebrate Arab Heritage Month. “This is outrageous,” the alliance wrote. “For […]

Christians

Multifaith community leaders condemn EPIC City probes at North Texas news conference Spokespeople for the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Jewish Voice for Peace, along with a Christian minister, call heightened scrutiny of a Muslim-centric neighborhood evidence of Islamophobia.

April 8, 2025   

(Dallas Morning News) Muslim, Jewish and Christian community leaders gathered for a news conference Tuesday morning to condemn the slew of recent investigations into Muslim-centric neighborhood EPIC City. EPIC City, currently the subject of at least five investigations announced by Texas politicians, […]

Academics & Education

After Nasrallah mourner’s expulsion from US, CAIR tells non-citizens: Travel with burner phones to avoid deportation ‘Don’t wave the banner in front of the protest,’ one speaker warned visa holders

March 26, 2025   

(Free Beacon) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is advising non-citizens to take “proactive steps” — like using a burner phone — to avoid deportation after traveling abroad as the Trump administration cracks down on foreigners who support terrorism. During the anti-Israel […]

Employment

Meet the CAIR-linked group that aims to place Muslim Americans in federal jobs Muslim Americans in Public Service's ties to terrorist supporters could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside government

March 24, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Muslim Americans in Public Service is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that coordinates with federal agencies to help Muslims obtain and advance careers in government. To do so, it partners with Islamic organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, that have […]

Demonstrations

New Jersey gubernatorial hopeful speaks at rally featuring CAIR leader who justified Oct. 7 Newark mayor Ras Baraka also hosted notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan in 2017

March 12, 2025   

(Free Beacon) New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Newark mayor Ras Baraka (D.) spoke Tuesday at an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rally that featured the Council on American-Islamic Relations New Jersey (CAIR NJ), an anti-Semitic group that justified the Oct. 7, 2023, attack […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

CAIR slams Elon Musk for ‘reckless’ comment on American Muslim groups Muslim advocacy group warns Musk's remarks fuel Islamophobia, endanger communities and misrepresent nonprofit organizations

February 24, 2025   

(Anadolu) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday for a comment on X that it says fuels Islamophobia and endangers American Muslim communities. The criticism came after Musk appeared to support a post falsely labeling Muslim and […]

Academics & Education

Northwestern University mandatory anti-discrimination training pushes unverified CAIR data 'This omission is not an oversight; it reflects Northwestern's ongoing pattern of sidelining Jewish concerns in response to activist pressure,' anti-Semitism expert says

February 24, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Northwestern University’s mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism’s ties to Jew-hatred […]

Academics & Education

Trump Department of Justice launches Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism 'The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools,' task force head Leo Terrell says

February 3, 2025 and   

(Free Beacon) The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force “to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” the Department of Justice announced Monday. The task force stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week […]

Government & Politics

CAIR slams Biden, praises Trump in welcoming hostage agreement 'Let’s be clear. President Biden and his failed foreign policy team deserve zero credit for this belated deal,' the anti-Israel group stated.

January 16, 2025   

(JNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations praised the “long overdue” hostage-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists-release deal on Wednesday, saying it would prevent a “genocide in Gaza.” The anti-Israel group, which blames the Jewish state for being attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, praised President-elect Donald Trump and […]

Holidays

Refer FBI to CAIR, New Orleans attacker’s local mosque tells members 'It is deeply troubling and wrong for this local Houston mosque to refer all questions to CAIR, a Jew-hating group which praised other Islamist terrorist attacks,' Morton Klein told JNS.

January 2, 2025   

(JNS) Masjid Bilal, the local Houston mosque near the home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, has been receiving a good deal of unwanted press attention since the 42-year-old drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, […]

Government & Politics

Chikli: CAIR leader praised October 7 massacre, called Gaza ‘concentration camp’ Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli claimed that CAIR had ties to Hamas and was 'outrageously antisemtic.'

December 20, 2024   

(Jerusalem Post) Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry Minister Amichai Chikli escalated his campaign against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Thursday, exposing the organization’s alleged ties to Hamas and sharing a damning quote from its executive director, Nihad Awad, about […]

Government & Politics

Congress moves to strip tax-exempt status of US nonprofits supporting terror If enacted, the proposed legislation could be used to go after CAIR and its well-documented ties to Hamas.

September 16, 2024   

(JNS) On Sept. 11 — the 23rd anniversary of terror attacks — the U.S. House of Representatives received bipartisan approval for the markup of H.R. 9495, a bill that would terminate the tax-exempt status of terror-supporting organizations. The bill specifies how the […]

Government & Politics

Muslim voters evenly split between Jill Stein and Kamala Harris, new poll finds Poll shows 40 percent drop in Muslim support for Democrats, as they lean to third parties amid outrage over war in Gaza

August 29, 2024   

(Middle East Eye) A new poll conducted this week shows that the majority of Muslim voters in the United States are evenly split on who they plan to vote for as president in the upcoming November election, with roughly 60 percent planning […]

Interfaith

CAIR leader mourns Hamas head Haniyeh: ‘His martyrdom is not in vain’ Terror group's leader attended Iranian president's inauguration, where chants of 'death to Israel' and 'death to America' rang out, shortly before his death

July 31, 2024   

(Free Beacon) Zahra Billoo, head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s (CAIR) San Francisco branch, mourned the death of top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, portraying the terrorist as a martyr before calling for Israel’s eradication. “Never say that those martyred in the […]

Government & Politics

Pennsylvania rep met with Hamas supporters before boycotting Bibi’s speech CAIR's executive director said he was 'happy to see' Hamas’s invasion of Israel on October 7

July 24, 2024   

(Free Beacon) Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean (Pa.) met with the pro-Hamas advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, before announcing her boycott of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress, she said Wednesday. In an interview on CNN, Dean said […]

Crime

CAIR honcho and ‘Squad’ donor suggests Israel behind suspected Iranian plot to assassinate Trump Nihad Awad said last year he was 'happy to see' Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel

July 17, 2024   

(Free Beacon) The executive director of the anti-Israel Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pushed the baseless claim that the Jewish state is behind a suspected Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump. Nihad Awad asserted that reports of Iran’s plans to […]

Clerics & Preachers

House Dem to speak at anti-Israel conference with Holocaust denier and ex-Hamas member Rep. André Carson to speak at Islamic Society of North America convention that features Hitler apologist

June 28, 2024   

(Free Beacon) Rep. André Carson (D., Ind.) will speak at the annual convention of an Islamic group linked to Hamas, along with one imam convicted in Israel of serving in terrorist groups and another who has denied the Holocaust, praised Adolf Hitler, […]