The warning signs were there — the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and especially it’s executive director and co-founder, Nihad Awad, has a history of supporting Hamas — yet, still the Biden administration chose CAIR in May to “educate religious communities about steps they can take to protect their houses of worship from hate incidents” as part of the National Strategy to Combat Anti-Semitism.
At the time, critics slammed the White House for partnering with CAIR, which has a history of anti-Semitism and was linked to Hamas in a federal terrorism case in 2007.
And those vocal critics, well, it looks like they were right, because look at this.
CAIR cast blame for the attack squarely on Israel. On Monday, the group urged lawmakers to “address the root causes of Mideast violence,” which it attributed to the “Israeli government’s apartheid policies.”
Nihad Awad, the executive director of CAIR, referred to Israel as a “settler colonial Apartheid state” in the wake of the attacks, and decried the placement of the Israeli flag on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Awad wrote on social media that “Israel=Russia,” and called on President Joe Biden to condemn Israel, but not the Hamas attackers. “You must condemn the occupier not the occupied,” Awad wrote.
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