The watchdog group Stopantisemitism.org is calling on the US Department of Education and Georgie State University to keep the "terror-affiliated" Council on American-Islamic Relations off US college campuses.
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American front group for the terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Muslim Brotherhoods, is infiltrating the US education system," said the petition, which already has nearly 2,000 signatures.
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"Their anti-American agenda is infecting school curriculums, poisoning the minds of our students and our future leaders with Islamist propaganda, anti-Semitism, and anti-American bias. CAIR Georgia is one of the many groups driving these anti-American and anti-Semitic campaigns."
The appeal by StopAntisemitism.org was launched in response to the CAIR chapter in Georgia, urging GSU to end its relationship with the project Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange due to its partnership with Israel.
Liora Rez, director of Stopantisemitism.org, talked to JNS about CAIR's "infiltration" on college campuses, saying: "CAIR is constantly inserting the Palestinian/Israeli conflict into the center of every issue from veganism to law-enforcement exchange programs such as GILEE. Their constant targeting of Israel, and calls for violence and the dismantlement of the State of Israel, creates a dangerous environment of anti-Semitism on campuses across the country in which Jewish students are being targeted and bullied."
According to the Anti-Defamation League, CAIR has "a long record of anti-Israel activity. Its leadership has accused Israel of being a racist state engaged in genocide and Israel supporters in the U.S. of promoting 'a culture of hostility towards Islam.' Its chapters partner with various anti-Israel groups that seek to isolate and demonize the Jewish state."
In 2007, federal prosecutors named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal conspiracy to financially support the terrorist group Hamas as part of the Holy Land Foundation case. In 2009, the FBI severed relations with CAIR because of concerns of its continued ties with terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. At least seven CAIR board members or staff have been banned from the United States, arrested, indicted, convicted or have pleaded guilty to terrorist charges.
The United Arab Emirates also designated CAIR as a terrorist entity in 2014.
More recently, in November 2018, CAIR Los Angeles director Hussam Ayloush was widely condemned for calling for Israel's "termination."
CAIR Georgia is allegedly funding and recruiting GSU's student government members to be the campaign surrogates for CAIR's anti-Semitic campaign against GILEE, according to Stopantisemitism.org.
"This campaign is one of countless efforts by CAIR to implement its anti-American agenda on college campuses and legitimize anti-Semitism under the veneer of anti-Israel advocacy. College campuses should serve their students, not terror-affiliated organizations," the petition stated.
CAIR Georgia has been led since 2016 by anti-Israel activist and Muslim American attorney Edward Ahmed Mitchell, who is also an editor of AtlantaMuslim.com. Mitchell did not respond to requests for comment regarding the petition and CAIR Georgia's actions.
"Student initiatives should be led by students; CAIR is not a student organization," said Rez. "[CAIR] markets itself as a Human Rights Group for Muslims when, in fact, it's closely linked to terror groups and spreads anti-Semitism and Islamists propaganda in the US. We should be very vigilant about allowing organizations like CAIR to poison the minds of our kids and future leaders with their hateful agendas."
This is not StopAntisemitism.org's first petition against CAIR. In April, the organization called on US Attorney General William Barr and Elan Carr, the US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, to investigate CAIR and its connections to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org
