Following Hamas’ heinous execution of the six Israeli hostages, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released the following statement, which did not condemn the murders, but rather lamented the fact that palestinian Arabs are not treated as human beings, while accusing Israel of genocide:
“Enough. Now is the time for President Biden to stop his financial, military and diplomatic support for the Israeli government in order to force Netanyahu to stop his escalating war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza and now even the occupied West Bank.
“Every innocent human life matters — whether Palestinian, Israeli or American — but our government’s policies and rhetoric say otherwise. President Biden must finally start to treat Palestinians as human beings who deserve the same rights as all other people.
“Just as President Biden clearly and passionately condemned the killing of Israeli hostages, he should clearly and passionately condemn the torture-murder of this 58-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank and the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, as well as numerous Israeli hostages, in Gaza.
“If President Biden instead lets Netanyahu continue his self-serving war of annihilation, he will further endanger the millions of Palestinian people trapped in Gaza, the over 90 Israeli and other hostages still held captive there, and the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners facing torture in Israeli prisons at this very moment.
“President Biden should have used his leverage to end the genocide and force a ceasefire and hostage release deal on Netanyahu many months ago. Instead, the Biden administration sent more bombs for the far-right Israeli government to drop on Palestinians. Until he takes action to stop Netanyahu, President Biden will continue to be his partner in genocide. He must change course now, before more innocent people die.”
As foul as this is – and it is foul – their Executive Director for the San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA), Zahra Billoo, went even further, retweeting someone who implied we killed the hostages and not Hamas, since Hamas treated them so well all of this time:
Hamas have actually admitted to killing the hostages, but Billoo et al. won’t believe that.
Not that it would matter to her that they did do it, given she has actually publicly expressed the hope Hamas is victorious and Jews all over the world are destroyed:
Remember, this is the same woman who years ago painted even “polite Zionists” (including the Jewish Federation, synagogues, and Hillel chapters on campus) as the enemy, and chillingly warned the enemy would be defeated.
I see Billoo but also CAIR as dangers to Jews everywhere.
