The Biden administration claimed its partnership with CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was to combat antisemitism. The announcement was made in May, even after the group claimed that Israel was an “apartheid state.” However, CAIR, and its Executive Director Nihad Awad, are in fact, incredibly antisemitic.
In November, Awad stated that he was “happy to see” Hamas attack Israel on October 7th:
“The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7. And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land,” Awad reportedly said, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “The people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense.”
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Awad released a statement on Thursday claiming that he had condemned “violence against all civilians” and said antisemitism is “a real evil” during his speech at the convention, accordingto CAIR’s website. Awad also claimed that an “anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate website” had taken his words “out of context and spliced them together to create a completely false meaning.”
