New CAIR data shows anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate continued in first half of 2024
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says the surge in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate that erupted last October continued into the first half of 2024.
From January to June, the Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization documented 4,951 incoming complaints, a 69% increase over the same period in 2023.
Education discrimination incidents spiked in May as student encampments urging universities to take an anti-genocide stand dominated media headlines.
CAIR Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor said since last fall “university administrators have been a primary perpetrator of anti-Muslim racism.”
He said: “Too many places of higher education, which have historically permitted Islamophobic speakers to poison their campus in the name of academic freedom, apparently find anti-genocide speech intolerable.”
CAIR data shows that as student protests dominated media coverage of the movement opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, employers continued to punish employees for their views on the war.
Saylor says federal agencies such as Customs and Border Protection and the FBI were also “interpreting being Muslim or anti-genocide as suspicious activity”.
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