CAIR
California-based nonprofits provided some of the highest levels of donations.
A White House spokesman also condemns “shocking, antisemitic statements” from the Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director.
Hussam Ayloush delivered a virulent diatribe against the Jewish state during a sermon in Oklahoma.
Hesham Ayyad, 20, falsely claimed that he was the victim of a violent, anti-Palestinian hate crime.
Several days before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the White House hosted a roundtable with groups that subsequently blamed Israel for being attacked.
The U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism had said in June, when the White House invited CAIR to advise its antisemitism strategy, that CAIR should be judged going forward. It recently blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks.
The Biden administration’s decision to invite the Council on American-Islamic Relations to be part of the strategy was like inviting “some butchers to National Vegetarian Day,” Gil Troy told JNS in May.
The statement from the United States Council of Muslim Organizations came just hours after widespread Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
With the dismissal of a challenge to Texas’ anti-BDS law, the BDS movement doesn’t appear to have any judicial cards left to play.
It comes after a new report was released by the Investigative Project on Terrorism about the group’s extensive history of antisemitism.
“Antisemitism is in the DNA of CAIR,” author of the report Steve Emerson said of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“I’m disappointed and appalled that CAIR—an organization that has peddled antisemitic tropes and has ties to extremist, anti-Israel groups—played any role in the U.S. national strategy to counter antisemitism,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) told JNS.
