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?&#...
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) alongside student and social justice groups is calling for an investigation into the University of Georgia for alleged discriminatory practices against Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students. A Title VI federal civil rights complaint has been filed with the US Department o...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A Muslim American advocacy group has condemned the killing of a Turkish-American activist by the Israeli army in northern occupied West Bank. “We strongly condemn the Israeli apartheid government for murdering American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi while she peacefully protested its human right abuses in the Occupied ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent US Muslim group, on Monday urged President Joe Biden to value Palestinian and Israeli lives equally. The call came two days after recovery of six hostages, including an American, in Gaza, which prompted protests against the government led by Israeli Prime Min...
A federal court has halted California’s controversial “no beard policy” for peace officers. The policy was enforced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It failed to accommodate officers who seek to maintain facial hair for religious or cultural reasons. This legal action follows a lawsuit on behalf of Mubasha...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The run-up to the presidential election is tense because of two key issues: the economy and the major parties’ support to Israel. As Americans grapple with economic hardships and inflation, their frustration is compounded by their government’s support to Israel’s genocidal actions in the devastated Pales...
