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Benjamin Baird

Benjamin Baird is director of MEF Action, an advocacy project of the Middle East Forum.

Ayman Nassar makes the disgraced commissioner he is set to replace—Zainab Chaudry—look like an angel in comparison.
HR 52 fails to provide a representative sample of California’s Muslim leaders. Instead, it serves to divide communities, legitimize extremism and undermine mainstream and moderate Muslim voices.
It’s no coincidence that the Hamtramck, Michigan municipal government decided to condemn Israel.
In Senate testimony, CAIR has been called a “radical Islamic fundamentalist front group for [the Palestinian terrorist entity] Hamas.” Nevertheless, 101 congressional lawmakers sent letters glorifying the Islamist organization ahead of its 2018 national banquet.
The Islamist powers-that-be were outraged with playwright, attorney and polemicist Wajahat Ali’s participation in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative.