Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad called on the White House to condemn Israel

The Biden administration earlier in the year approached to the Council on American-Islamic Relations for an initiative that would reduce anti-Semitism. In the last week, this anti-Semitic organization and its leaders stood up for Hamas attacks which have killed more than 1,000 Jews.

The White House announced in May that the Council on American-Islamic Relations would participate in the “National Strategy to Combat Anti-Semitism.” In the course of the program, CAIR launched a nationwide tour “to educate religious minority communities” about how they can “protect their houses of worship from hate incidents.” In the beginning, some critics attacked CAIR and the White House for partnering with CAIR who has an history of anti-Semitism. It also was a part of Hamas as part of a federal terrorist incident in the year 2007.

Today, CAIR is condoning the most devastating attack in the history of Israel which raises further concerns about the administration’s ties with the infamous group. Hamas militants attacked the Jewish state in a shocking attack last weekend, killing a number of civilians, and the capture of dozens girls and women hostage. The terrorist group has said that it will broadcast hostages’ executions if certain demands are not fulfilled.

CAIR has placed the blame for the incident squarely on Israel. On Monday, the organization called on lawmakers to “address the root causes of Mideast violence,” which it blamed on Israel’s “Israeli government’s apartheid policies.”

Nihad Awad, the executive director of CAIR The executive director of CAIR Israel as an “settler colonial Apartheid state” following the Hamas attacks. He also criticized the erection in the Israeli flag on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Awad posted via social networks the statement that “Israel=Russia,” and called the president Joe Biden to condemn Israel but not Hamas attackers. “You must condemn the occupier not the occupied,” Awad wrote.

This is the latest instance of the Biden administration wooing groups that oppose Israel. Biden is the president. Biden has recently made Qatar as a non-NATO ally and boosted diplomatic relations between the rich oil producing Gulf nation. However, Qatari officials have condemned Israel following the Hamas attack and said Israel had been “solely responsible” for the violence.

The State Department has awarded several grants this year to Hamas-supporting and anti-Israel groups located in Gaza in Gaza and the West Bank. On September. 29the department granted the sum of $100,000 Al-Quds Open University, a Ramallah-based university that has praised the Hamas attackrs and called them “righteous martyrs.”

CAIR’s views against Israel have been well-known for a long time. In 2007 CAIR officials were implicated in Hamas during an indictment before the federal court of an organization called the Holy Land Foundation, a Texas-based Islamic charity. The CAIR’s founder for the Texas Chapter was given 65-years in prison for the case.

Zaira Billoo, CAIR’s executive director San Francisco chapter, has accused traditional Jewish organizations to be “enemies” and defended Hamas’s firing rockets into Israel. In 2015 Billoo asked “When was the last time Hamas instituted a siege against a people?”

in 2021 CAIR lobbyist Robert McCaw declared that the organization would not attend an White House event because of “the Biden administration’s increasing and disappointingly disturbing response to the Israeli government’s human rights abuses against Palestinians.” McCaw’s announcement was followed by the White House has since hosted McCaw at four occasions which included the 2nd of May “listening session” regarding Islamophobia.

Awad Awad, who is the CAIR executive director has been a vocal opponent of Israel for years and has been a vocal advocate for Islamic clergymen who advocate the use of force against Israel. In the last month, he praised Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called for a second Holocaust against Jews and the murder of American soldiers in Iraq. Awad described al-Qaradawi for being “the one who stood up to the oppressors, and who didn’t beg them.”

CAIR and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. White House and CAIR did not respond to requests for comments.