Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a supporter of Hamas’ October 7 attacks, on Monday called for the United States to restore funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). he demanded.
The Biden administration last week halted funding to UNRWA after it was revealed that at least a dozen staff members took part in the October 7 terrorist attack. Biden had previously returned $700 million to UNRWA, which President Donald Trump cut over concerns about its role in supporting terrorism and indoctrinating Palestinian children to hate Israel.
As Breitbart News reported, Quote According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Awad celebrated the October 7 attack in a speech to Muslim groups shortly after the attack, saying he was “happy” and that Israel had no right to self-defense. .
CAIR also has a history of involvement with Hamas and support for Palestinian terrorism. As Breitbart News has pointed out in the past:
From 2007 to 2008, CAIR named Unindicted co-conspirator in Holy Land Relief and Development Foundation terrorist financing trial. This incident led to the F.B.I. call off Cooperation with organizations. In 2009, a federal judge control The government said it had “submitted sufficient evidence” to establish a link between CAIR and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.United Arab Emirates a label is attached CAIR was designated as a terrorist organization in 2014 (decision by the Obama administration) opposed).
On Monday, CAIR issued a press release quoting Mr. Awad, who claimed to have “personally benefited” from UNRWA:
As a Palestinian American who grew up in a refugee camp and has personally benefited from UNRWA assistance, I know that this agency is a much-needed source of humanitarian aid for Palestinians, especially those in the Gaza Strip. I know.
It is morally corrupt for President Biden to cut funding to UNRWA based on unconfirmed allegations by the Israeli government, while providing funding to the Israeli government despite confirmed allegations of organized war crimes. and is clearly contradictory. The timing of the announcement on the same day as the ICJ judgment is also extremely questionable.
By cutting funding to UNRWA, the Biden administration is fulfilling the wishes of far-right Israeli ministers who want to starve Palestinians into exile, while at the same time enacting collective punishment on five million innocent Palestinian civilians. When President Biden was running for office, he promised to reverse the Trump administration’s hateful and baseless UNRWA funding cuts. Now he is reinstating Trump policies, punishing millions of innocent people at the behest of the Israeli government, which wants to make it impossible for Palestinians to survive in Gaza. We call on the Biden administration to immediately restore funding to UNRWA.
Israel’s “unconfirmed” report was based on enough solid evidence for UNRWA to fire 12 of its own staff and for nearly a dozen other countries to suspend or reduce funding to the agency.
of new york times published The newspaper announced on Monday that one UNRWA employee helped kidnap an Israeli woman, another took part in the massacre of nearly 100 civilians at Kibbutz Be’eri, and another Hamas He said details of the charges Monday included “distributing ammunition” during the attack.
The White House earlier this month defended Mr. Biden’s decision to resume funding to UNRWA despite growing concerns about its support for terrorism, but on Monday it announced that it would continue funding the agency even after the administration suspended funding. continued to defend.
“Let’s not criticize the good work of an entire agency because of the potential bad behavior of a few.” Said White House National Security Press Secretary John Kirby ignored evidence that government agencies widely supported Hamas terrorist attacks.
Joined by Dr. Anthony Harper of Intermountain Christian News Service Breitbart News Sunday Last weekend on SiriusXM Patriot 125, we discussed his past work on the tense operation between both parties regarding U.S. taxpayer funding for UNRWA.
The White House also worked with CAIR last year in developing a so-called “anti-Semitism strategy” to allow for extreme criticism of Israel.The Biden administration had no choice but to do so. distance CAIR itself was removed from CAIR following Awad’s comments supporting the October 7 attack.
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