Grace Meng is a five-term U.S. representative from New York and a member of the House Progressive Caucus. She has a 100 percent voting record with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. She has a 4 percent voting record with the American Conservative Union. She is not, according to fellow Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a…
In a hyper-politicized world, it can be easy to forget that two things can be true at once. The New York Times seems to have fallen into that hole Sunday, in an article that largely whitewashed antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour. She is identified as a victim of a Russian troll farm’s 2017 campaign to…
Iran ranks among the world’s greatest destabilizing and oppressive forces. Its nuclear weapons program could one day realize leaders’ oft-stated goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. At the least, a nuclear Iran could spark a Middle East arms race. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic continues to finance terrorist groups – especially…
This story has been updated to add comments made by CAIR. The news was so disturbing it could not go without a comment from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Auburn University’s men’s basketball team was about to embark on a 10-day trip to Israel. They’d play some games and hold…
A Scottsdale Community College professor did not violate his Muslim student’s rights when he taught about religious justification in Islamic terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district judge’s 2020 ruling dismissing the lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on behalf…
“Why not?” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank asked that simple question last week after the normally publicity-mad Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told him it had nothing to say about a BDS chapter’s promotion of a “mapping project” condemned as antisemitic and a possible incitement to violence. BDS is the campaign to isolate Israel through…
The hateful and often violent rhetoric prominent at anti-Israel rallies is something we have tracked and documented for years. While participants may claim they are advocating for Palestinian rights, most of the speeches and chants are rooted in rage against the Jewish state and the fact of its existence. Rejecting…
You guys, the Zionists are being so mean to me! All I’ve done is call (repeatedly) for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state “by any means necessary.” Sure, any means includes violence and terrorism, but I made that sentiment a principal element of my organization “Within Our Lifetime.” And yeah, I…
If a seminar last Wednesday organized by the anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is any indicator, City University of New York (CUNY) law students may be challenged both in vocabulary and in irony. Palestinians are resisting “genocide,” third-year CUNY law student Nerdeen Kiswani said during the seminar.…
I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months chronicling the unabashed hatred spewed by Zahra Billoo, one of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)’s highest profile chapter directors. That’s because, when it comes to antisemitism, Billoo is the gift that keeps on giving. And because it’s abundantly clear that…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) again is making it clear that its understanding of antisemitism stops at the moment Israel, the birthplace of Judaism whose existence is supported by more than 90 percent of the world’s Jewry, is mentioned favorably. Last week, CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter filed an EEOC complaint, alleging…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) punishment for an antisemitic rant, coming from an employee with a history of antisemitic hate speech, appears to be two months off. Zahra Billoo has returned to work as executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, just two months after announcing a “sabbatical.”…