(Washington Examiner) Congressional Democrats pocketed campaign donations from a leader within an anti-Israel organization that has long been accused of being linked to Palestinian terrorism, records show. Over the last two decades, Hussam Ayloush has sprinkled tens of thousands of dollars combined […]
(Jewish Insider) A legislative effort is underway in Maryland to remove the Council on American-Islamic Relations from a state hate crimes body after the organization’s Maryland director published a series of antisemitic Facebook posts after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, […]
(Free Beacon) An anti-Israel group whose founder said he was “happy to see” Hamas attack Israel is urging local libraries to feature children’s books that push propaganda against the Jewish state — including one that contends all of Israel belongs to “Palestine.” […]
(Free Beacon) California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) met Thursday with the state’s Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter (CAIR) just weeks after the group’s leader said he was “happy to see” Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel, a comment that even prompted condemnation from […]
(Fox) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) appears to have scrubbed Democratic lawmakers’ praise for its group from its website following blowback over its leader’s controversial statements regarding Hamas, Fox News Digital has discovered. Nihad Awad, CAIR’s executive director, recently said he […]
(Jewish Insider) Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) met with affiliates of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Connecticut chapter in early December, according to a Facebook post from the group. CAIR has come under recent scrutiny over its supportive rhetoric regarding Hamas’ Oct. […]
(Free Beacon) Two decades ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said the Council on American-Islamic Relations has “ties to terrorism” and called for the federal government to cut ties with the controversial anti-Israel group. Schumer, now the Senate majority leader, has flip-flopped […]
(HuffPost) The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country, on Friday denounced three Republican senators for their treatment of President Joe Biden’s historic judicial nominee Adeel Mangi during his recent confirmation hearing. GOP Sens. Ted Cruz […]
(Free Beacon) A Republican in Congress is probing the Biden administration’s communications with an anti-Israel group that is known to promulgate anti-Semitic propaganda and whose leader celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Rep. Darrell […]
(Jewish Insider) The White House on Thursday distanced itself from the Council on American-Islamic Relations after the leader of the Muslim advocacy organization gave a speech celebrating the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel. “We condemn these shocking, antisemitic statements in […]
(Fox) One of the top executives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said he was “happy” to witness the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Nihad Awad, executive director and co-founder of CAIR, expressed his feelings on the terrorist attack at […]
(Free Beacon) An anti-Israel student group at the University of Pennsylvania invited an Islamic scholar and cleric to campus who last year argued that gay people are “destructive” and “will not be happy.” The scholar, former Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center […]
(Free Beacon) A Muslim advocacy group is defending its decision to broadcast the claims of an Ohio man about a bogus anti-Palestinian hate crime. The man, Hesham Ayyad, was subsequently arrested for lying to police after he appeared to have fabricated the […]
(Free Beacon) A federal program to help nonprofit groups protect against terrorist attacks has given millions of dollars to mosques and Islamic groups that have praised terrorists and called for the destruction of Israel, according to a Washington Free Beacon review. The […]
(Anadolu) US President Joe Biden has “ignored our people” during the ongoing Gaza crisis and “we’re going to ignore him” in next year’s presidential election, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said. “We told him directly, in our […]
(Real Clear Investigations) After Hamas massacred 1,400 men, women and children in Israel last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the terror group “and its allies” could inspire attacks on Americans “here on our own soil.” He also told the Senate […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration tapped an anti-Israel advocacy group that accuses the Jewish state of genocide to participate in a forum on the surge in hate crimes following Hamas’s attacks. The Arab American Institute joined the Justice Department’s “United Against Hate” […]
(NBC) President Joe Biden quietly hosted a meeting Thursday for a handful of Muslim leaders, according to four sources familiar with the White House gathering, as he faces pressure from the Arab American community over what they contend is his comparative disregard […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration earlier this year tapped the Council on American-Islamic Relations for an initiative to curb anti-Semitism. This week, the anti-Semitic group and its leaders defended Hamas attacks that have killed more than 1,000 Jews. The White House announced […]
(Anadolu) A leading Muslim group in the US urged President Joe Biden and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to condemn the Quran burning in Sweden. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it encouraged Biden and Kristersson “to clearly disavow anti-Muslim bigotry […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a self-declared Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned “war crimes” being committed against Palestinian civilians in Jenin refugee camp on Monday and called on the United States to take “concrete action to stop […]
(Anadolu) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday condemned “war crimes” against Palestinian civilians in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, calling on the US to “take concrete action to stop the Israeli government’s escalating human rights abuses.” “We […]
(Washington Times) The Senate confirmed the first Muslim female judge Thursday, helping President Biden fulfill his promise to make the federal bench more diverse. Nusrat Choudhury was approved 50-49 to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Sen. […]
(Daily Caller) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a nonprofit known for its anti-Israel rhetoric and ties to terrorist groups, has been actively working to prevent the Georgia legislature from passing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. CAIR campaigned […]
(Middle East Eye) More Muslims shifted to the right in this year’s midterm elections, compared to how they voted in the 2018 midterms. In the 2022 midterm election, 28 percent of Muslim voters voted Republican, which is an 11 percent increase from […]
(Free Beacon) Pro-Israel community leaders in Los Angeles are sounding the alarm over a Democratic candidate for the city’s top legal post who has spent several decades working alongside groups accused of supporting terrorism against Israel — and whose far-left views on […]
(IPT) If disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein issued a statement condemning Bill Cosby’s alleged abuse of women, would you take it seriously? I sure hope not. Weinstein is on trial in Los Angeles for alleged rapes after being convicted in 2020 […]
(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 […]
(IPT) The news was so disturbing it could not go without a comment from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Auburn University’s men’s basketball team was about to embark on a 10-day trip to Israel. They’d play some games and hold clinics […]
(Hill) The murder of four men in Albuquerque has put the Muslim community on high alert for future attacks, leaving some also concerned about the public perception of their Islamic faith. Police detained a primary suspect on Tuesday for the murders of […]
(New Arab) Following the arrest of the main suspect in the killing of Muslim men in Albuquerque — an Afghan Sunni immigrant who allegedly murdered four Shia Muslims — the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference Tuesday evening in […]
(New Arab) Rights groups in the United States are warning civil society activists against travelling or transiting through the United Arab Emirates after the detention of US civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor. Ghafoor, a Virginia-based civil rights lawyer who represented murdered Washington […]
(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 […]
(New Arab) Getting people to go out and vote can be hard, especially in communities where people don’t feel like their voices are heard. Humour is one way to break the ice on serious topics, like politics. This month, the Council on […]
(Religion News) In one of his harshest speeches to date, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, the country’s leading antisemitism watchdog, compared three left-leaning groups that have been critical of Israel to white nationalists. The speech by Jonathan Greenblatt, who has led […]
(Algemeiner) Last Friday’s decision by District Court Judge Andrew Hanen of Texas has been lauded as a landmark victory by supporters of Israel boycotts — an irony, given the opinion actually upholds the constitutionality of state laws that deem such boycotts discriminatory and […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ national office revealed more information on Wednesday afternoon about two people who came forward to say they were familiar with — and in one case, directly involved in — a plan to spy on American Muslims for the Investigative Project on Terrorism. […]
(IPT) A former employee who alleged rampant sexual discrimination and harassment inside the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was using “disturbingly false allegations” in a “systemic and continuous internet smear campaign” to get people to stop donating to or working with the […]
(Al-Jazeera) First, the major Muslim-American advocacy group reported that a “mole” had infiltrated the leadership of one of its state branches. Then, only days later, the organisation said a “spy” at a US mosque had passed information on to an “anti-Muslim” group. […]
(Columbus Dispatch) Romin Iqbal, a former leader of a Columbus Muslim advocacy group, had been sending confidential information to an anti-Muslim group since at least 2008, national Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials said Thursday morning. During a media call, the national […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Ohio chapter of a national Muslim-American advocacy and civil rights group announced on Tuesday that its director was working with a national anti-Muslim group and had been for years. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim advocacy and civil rights […]
(KYMA) On December 10, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to be expelled after he made a comment about destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Rep. Gosar recently made a statement about the mosque, “It remains […]
(Post Millennial) “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was named the “American Muslim Public Servant of 2021” after accepting the award [Saturday] evening at a virtual annual gala hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will accept an award on Saturday honoring her as the Muslim-American public servant of the year at a virtual gala hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR, the nation’s largest organization representing Muslims, said in […]
(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 […]
(East County Magazine) The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination (ADC) Committee’s San Diego chapter has issued a press release denouncing Supervisor Joel Anderson for his statement linking the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to terrorism. During an Oct. 7 hearing on his proposal to fund […]
(New Arab) A US-based Muslim rights group is calling for the removal of a member of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum trustee board following “numerous Islamophobic statements” made during her participation in a webinar marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks. Board member […]
(AP) A northern Virginia mosque is asking the Biden administration to release a set of religious tiles that were confiscated at Dulles International Airport after they were deemed to violate sanctions on Iran. At a news conference Tuesday at the Manassas Mosque, […]
(IPT) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Georgia chapter was intent on making news Monday, but apparently it couldn’t decide how. The objective was clear — to smear the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), because GILEE takes American police leaders to […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday reflected on her own painful experience with Islamophobia to push the Biden administration [to] appoint a special envoy to monitor anti-Muslim hate in the U.S. and worldwide. Omar was joined by other Muslim members of […]
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