One of CAIR’S most virulent anti-Semites, CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush said: “Kanye West’s anti-Semitic statements have contributed to the already alarming rise in antisemitism that we are seeing in our society and must not be tolerated.”
“We are appalled by this disgusting display of antisemitism, particularly as it comes from a prominent figure in the media. Kanye West’s anti-Semitic statements have contributed to the already alarming rise in anti-Semitism that we are seeing in our society and must not be tolerated. The resulting show of support for his statements is a disturbing reminder that hate must be collectively condemned and never allowed to become socially normalized, or else it will embolden others to act on their biases. We appreciate Mayor Eric Garcetti’s response to the matter and will continue to stand in full solidarity with our Jewish neighbors as they face this growing antisemitism.”
IPT – Steve Emerson However, Ayloush has no problem bashing Israel and Jews who support the existence of the Jewish state. In the past, he has called for the Jewish state to be “terminated” and referred to Israeli Jews as “zionazis,” writing: “Indeed, the zionazis are a bunch of nice people; just like their nazi brethren! It is just that the world keeps making up lies about them! It is so unfair.”He has repeatedly equated Americans who move to Israel, where military service is compulsory, to ISIS terrorists who seek global dominance.
Ayloush also tries to equate Israel with the Islamic Republic of Iran – the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism worldwide which continues to actively plot attacks throughout the West.
That kind of comparison “is frankly insane,” British Muslim Maajid Nawaz, a former radical who now fights Islamist ideologies, said.
Asked to condemn Hamas, Ayloush called the question “unacceptable” and lashed out at the questioner, saying it was “very shameful” and “proves that you have nothing but bigotry in you.” The question was rooted in CAIR’s ties to a Hamas-support network in America, ties that prompted the FBI to cut off outreach work with CAIR more than a decade ago.
But CAIR manages to tolerate it when the anti-Semitism involves Israel and Jews who support it.
In June, a “mapping project” by a group supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel was roundly condemned as dangerous antisemitism that could put people at risk. The map showed the exact locations for dozens of Jewish organizations and others who support Israel’s existence.
It was a case of “outright antisemitic bigotry, conspiracy theories and implicit invitations to violence,” wrote Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. But when he called CAIR for comment, he was told it “is not an issue we’re dealing with at this time.” “Why not?” Milbank wondered.
I explained why in detail. There’s something in CAIR’s DNA – it was born out of a Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Hamas-support network in the United States – that puts its opposition to Israel’s existence above everything else.
Nihad Awad, CAIR’s co-founder and the only executive director in its 28-year history, was listed along with two other founding officials, in a roster of network members. In August, Awad protested President Biden’s meeting with new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Hosting Bennett, Awad argued, is as bad as welcoming the Taliban to the White House.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued an “action alert” on Thursday encouraging its supporters to pressure Congress to oppose the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019.”
The Act was reintroduced in March by U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and three other senators. It directs the Department of Education to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of anti-Semitism, which the State Department embraced in 2016.
CAIR’s alert urged its supporters to “contact their legislators to oppose the falsely-titled ‘Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019.'”
CAIR is worried that if the U.S. Department of Education adopts this definition, U.S. Muslim groups will be inhibited in their efforts to stoke anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses. If enacted, CAIR says, the bill “would dangerously politicize anti-Semitism by equating it with legitimate criticism of Israeli policy.”
CAIR leader Zahra Billoo, for example, acknowledged in November that she is “not going to legitimize a country [Israel] that I don’t believe has a right to exist.” She also has denounced Muslim leaders who oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Billoo has similarly supported Palestinian terrorists attacking Israelis and openly called for the destruction of the Jewish state, in a not-so-veiled threat:
“From the river to the sea” is not a criticism of Israeli policy, though. It’s a call to eliminate an existing state. It is flat out anti-Semitism that is meant to intimidate Jewish students on campuses and stifle any support for Israel’s right to defend itself and exist as a Jewish state.
These CAIR officials are continuing a long track record of anti-Semitic statements uttered by their leader: National Executive Director Nihad Awad.
Awad also believes that the “Zionist movement” solely controls the film industry and media. “There is no, no, uh, no secret in the knowledge that filmmakers in Hollywood are of Jewish origin and they have a big effect,” Awad said in Arabic during a 1998 Al Jazeerainterview with Yusuf al Qaradawi, the anti-Semitic spiritual head of the global Muslim Brotherhood.
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 Saturday when he called Tel Aviv “occupied” and prayed for it to be freed. It is Israel’s most populous city, the place where Israel declared its independence. Awad’s reference to an “occupied” Tel Aviv revealed that he does not accept Israel’s right to exist.
We need to tell our members of Congress that they have pledged allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, not the State of Israel,” Awad said
At a joint Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)-Muslim American Society (MAS) conference in 2010, Awad claimed that “some of members of Congress are willing to put the interests of Israel ahead of the United States’ interests.” This view is similar to recent comments by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that levied dual loyalty allegationsagainst American supporters of Israel. Accusing Jews of holding more allegiance to their homeland than their host states is a form of anti-Semitism.
CAIR’s efforts to derail this congressional bill are further proof of its nefarious objectives.
Last month, CAIR defended U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib after she told an anti-Israel group that people “cannot claim to hold progressive values, yet back Israel’s apartheid government.” The comment drew immediate rebuke from many of Tlaib’s fellow Democrats. And it came after Tlaib said she wants a “one-state solution” to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which essentially results in the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state.
In April, Billoo made it clear that she was, in fact, discouraging Muslims from working with Jewish groups at large.
“We need to pay attention to the Anti-Defamation League. We need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation. We need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues. We need to pay attention to the Hillel chapters on our campuses, because just because they’re your friend today doesn’t mean that they have your back when it comes to human rights. So oppose the vehement fascists, but oppose the polite Zionists, too.”
“If you are pro-Israel and you are working actively to harm our community here and abroad, we don’t want to work with you,” she said. “If you’re with the Anti-Defamation League, if you’re with the Jewish Community Relations Council, if you’re with the Jewish Federation, if you’re with any of these pro-Israel organizations, enough is enough.”
Billoo is still on the job and, as far as the public knows, faced no consequences for calling Jews “enemies” trying to harm Muslims.
“Billoo,” the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in January, “is but one of venomous professional Israel and Jew-haters who use non-existent dots to create phony links between Israel and US social crises. They always wrap their bigotry in the mantle of social justice. The goal is demonizing the Jewish state and silencing Israel’s supporters on campus and Capitol Hill.”
Since the Wiesenthal Center placed it on a list of the world’s worst anti-Semites, CAIR has intensified a campaign to persuade people it has no problems with Jews.
It has issued at least 11 statements since Sept. 21 condemning antisemitic acts throughout the country. That includes West’s rants, but also the destruction of a mezuzah snatched off an Indiana family’s front door, a swastika scratched into a yard sign for congressional candidate Max Rose in New York, and the distribution of antisemitic flyers in southern California, Arizona, Wyoming, South Carolina, Virginia, Michigan, and North Dakota.
“Those targeting the Jewish community with antisemitic hate must be repudiated by all Americans,” CAIR national spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said in the Wyoming statement. “The mainstreaming of bigotry in any form must never be tolerated or excused.” As we have shown, CAIR both “tolerates and excuses” antisemitism within its own ranks.
Jews were beaten because they were Jews. But CAIR could not bring itself to acknowledge that the violence was motivated by antisemitism because it involved Palestinian supporters.
Recently, CAIR Communications Director, Ibrahim Hooper (photo below), demanded that Alabama’s Auburn University’s basketball team cancel its upcoming “birthright” trip to Israel. Hooper then said, if he can’t convince the team to cancel what he call he calls a “propaganda junket,” the Alabama team should meet ordinary Palestinians so they can learn about “Israeli apartheid and human rights abuses without any Jew handlers around.”
It is clear that CAIR is trying to fool the public. It is quick to issue releases condemning antisemitism by anonymous individuals who dump flyers in a neighborhood, or who get caught defacing a synagogue. But when it comes to conspiracy theories about Jews driving “a well-funded conspiracy … to marginalize us, to imprison us, to deport us, to silence us,” or condemning violence by Palestinian advocates against random Jews, the group is uncharacteristically reserved.
Pointing this out, they’ll likely argue, is “Islamophobic.”
Linda Rivera says
Quran (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
Warlord Mohammad’s Quran WAR BOOK calls Mohammad’s god, the GREATEST DECEIVER. Mohammad’s God of DEATH DESTRUCTION and MASS GENOCIDES of Jews, Christians and all other NON-Muslims.
Mohammad’s GOD of ETERNAL DARKNESS.
Islam instructs Muslims to LIE to, and DECEIVE NON-Muslims.
For nations’ leaders to allow Muslims residency in their countries is to COMMIT NATIONAL SUICIDE. A Terrible CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and a HUGE SIN Against the HOLY ONE, our Precious, Wonderful, Glorious, Awesome Creator. Pure, Holy and Absolutely Good who dwells in unapproachable light.
Over a period of 1,400 Horrifying Years, Muslims have BARBARICALLY SLAUGHTERED HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of NON-Muslims. And CELEBRATE their terrible evil and CELEBRATE the Massive Breaking of the Laws of the HOLY ONE — “You shall not murder”.
Quran (8:67) – “It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land…”
Quran (8:59-60) – “And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah’s Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape.
Quran (8:65) – “O Prophet, exhort the believers to fight…”
Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush……
Linda Rivera says
Jews are the First Target of Muslims for Mass BARBARIC GENOCIDE. Christians are the Second Target of Muslims for Mass BARBARIC GENOCIDE.
Sahih Bukhari (52:177) – Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
NOT IN OUR NAME!
Permanently End all tax money from NON-Muslim Nations to UN funding and Hamas and Permanently End All of our Money to the PLO/Palestinian Authority MUSLIM TERRORIST Organization Occupation Forces.
On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein:
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.
In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.
Our Glorious, Majestic, Awesome Creator, Pure, Holy and Absolutely Good who dwells in unapproachable light will not allow the MUSLIM DEATH GOD WORSHIPERS to succeed.
No Dark Powers in the Universe or on Earth will Ever be able to Extinguish the light that is reborn Israel! Israel’s light will Shine Forever and Ever!
Bible, 1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
SHOCKING! – Hamas member admits there is no such thing as a Palestinian people
Tim h says
Fuck you cair .boo hoo it’s not fair we can’t blame the Jews any more. We have to start suing more Muslims to get more money for terrorism