WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the US, declared President Joe Biden a “war criminal” Wednesday over his decision to continue supplying arms to Israel despite its failure to meet a US-mandated deadline for allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza. ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged President-elect Donald Trump to prioritize fulfilling his campaign pledge to pursue peace abroad, including ending Israel’s war on Gaza. The American Muslim group also implored Democrat officials to learn lessons from Vice President Harris’ loss of support...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out 600,000 text messages across key swing states to engage Muslim voters. Executive Director Nihad Awad noted that while CAIR does not endorse candidates, it stresses the importance of voter turnout. Awad emphasizes that participating in elections is crucial for ensuring that elected offi...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – The US Muslim vote could play a major factor in the 2024 presidential election, according to a poll released Friday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. Topping the list of candidates in the new CAIR poll is not Vice Presiden...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Former president Bill Clinton is facing backlash for remarks that tried to justify Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. Clinton drew criticism after he said Hamas “forced” Israel to kill Palestinian civilians during a rally in the state of Michigan in support of Democratic preside...
The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on the FBI to launch a hate crime investigation into an apparently bias-motivated incident targeting a small business in Baltimore. Earlier this month, two packages containing fake pagers and a sweatshirt emblazoned with the logo of the Israeli military were mai...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged the Biden administration on Tuesday to demand Israel halt attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp after an American’s family was killed in airstrikes. A Palestinian-American man from the state of Virginia, who was not identified, informed CAIR that his family’s home was...
Authorities in Detroit are being urged to further investigate a knife attack on a young Arab, Muslim-American girl as a hate crime. Last Tuesday, a 73-year-old man slit a 7-year-old girl’s throat while she was at Ryan Park with her grandmother. According to reports, Gary Lansky went up to Saida Mashrah with a knife, lifted […]
NEW YORK (AA) – The US, which has provided support to Israel in its war on Gaza, has come under criticism for applying “double standards” to values such as freedom of speech. The pressure at local and national levels to suppress student demonstrations in support of Palestine, which began in April at Columbia University in New...
The US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism is under fire for flippant remarks regarding Israel’s recent attacks in Lebanon. At a recent event hosted by the Israeli-American Council, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt responded jokingly to a comment about perceptions of Israeli vulnerability by saying, “Do you want a beeper?&#...
