On Thursday, May 30, the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, plans to join with North Texas Imams (Islamic religious leaders) and Dallas Black Clergy to condemn the Biden administration’s complicity in yet another Israel-U.S. massacre of Palestinian civilians in a so-called “safe zone” in Gaza, which further exposes the Israeli government’s “genocidal brutality.”

WHEN: Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 10 a.m.

WHERE: HEXA Co-Working conference room #110, 2100 N. Greenville Ave. Richardson, TX 75080

CONTACT: CAIR-TX Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll, (832)549-1042, mcarroll@cair.com; CAIR-TX Director William White, (713) 254-2016, wwhite@cair.com,  CAIR-TX Board Chair Sarwat Husain, (210) 378-9528, shusain@cair.com

[NOTE: CAIR is now using the term “Israel-U.S.” to describe war crimes in Gaza because the Biden administration’s ongoing provision of money and weapons to the Israeli government despite President Biden’s violated red lines makes the U.S. intentionally complicit in the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians.]

BACKGROUNDER:

On Monday, May 27, 2024, 21 Palestinians were killed, at least 12 of them women, in strikes on tents housing displaced people in the designated humanitarian area in Mawasi in western Rafah. Israel has slaughtered more than 36,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children. Some two million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced.

In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:

“Day after day, massacre after massacre, and the Biden administration continues to ship the bombs to the far-right, openly genocidal Israeli government that it uses to slaughter Palestinian children, women, medical personnel, journalists, international aid workers, and the sick and elderly, and continues to shield Israel from international accountability. This genocidal brutality, which is being exposed daily by piles of charred and dismembered Palestinian civilians, must stop.

“Sadly, because of President Biden’s insistence on sending more bombs to enable Netanyahu’s war crimes in Rafah, this is now as much an American genocide as it is an Israeli genocide.”

CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.             

La misión de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensión del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.            

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CONTACT: CAIR-TX Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll, (832)549-1042, mcarroll@cair.com; CAIR-TX Director William White, (713) 254-2016, wwhite@cair.com,  CAIR-TX Board Chair Sarwat Husain, (210) 378-9528, shusain@cair.com