Hamas Ally CAIR Has Been Operating With Impunity Inside America for 30 Years

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After Hamas massacred 1,400 men, women and children in Israel last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the terror group โ€œand its alliesโ€ could inspire attacks on Americans โ€œhere on our own soil.โ€ He also told the Senate that the FBI is conducting โ€œmultiple, ongoing investigationsโ€ into people affiliated with the U.S.-designated terrorist group.

What Wray didnโ€™t say is that the FBI has been investigating Hamasโ€™ biggest ally in America for the past 30 yearsโ€”without seeking any charges. Launched in 1994 as a secret front organization to support Hamas, according to declassified FBI wiretap transcripts and FBI testimony, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has, in the decades since, become an accepted member of Washingtonโ€™s lobbying community. The New York Times and other influential newspapers routinely describe CAIR as a โ€œMuslim civil rights and advocacy organization.โ€

Although it has not repudiated its support for Hamasโ€”which is committed to the destruction of Israel and the Jewish peopleโ€”CAIR was enlisted by the Biden administration in May to take part in a White House initiative to fight antisemitism.

On Oct. 7, the day Hamas terrorists butchered 1,400 Jews, including 33 Americansโ€”raping many and abducting some 240 others to Gaza from southern Israelโ€”CAIRโ€™s national executive director, Nihad Awad, delivered an anti-Israel message in Arabic which seemed to justify what Hamas did. Translated into English, it read: โ€œAll Arab peoples must go out on Sunday, Oct. 8โ€”and every dayโ€”in demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and in rejection of normalization with the occupier and the apartheid regime [Israel].โ€

On Saturday afternoon, CAIR helped rally more than 100,000 Muslims in D.C. to instead condemn Israel for supposedly carrying out โ€œgenocideโ€ in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 attacks. Multiple speakers called for the destruction of Israelโ€”and, by implication, the Jewish people thereโ€”by demanding Palestinians take all the lands โ€œfrom the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea.โ€

Awad was front and center, delivering a fieryย speechย bashing Israel and President Biden for not calling on Israel to stop bombing Hamas targets inside Gaza, which he called โ€œgenocidal attacks.โ€ He threatened to hurt Biden at the ballot box in 2024 if he does not urge a ceasefire.

Byย Paul Sperry

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