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(RNS) — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has lodged a charge of religious discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission following a Maryland middle school teacher’s forced administrative leave. In the complaint, filed Wednesday (Dec. 6), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Legal Defense Fund said its client, a Muslim woman, was unfairly put on indefinite leave from her post at Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Maryland, after expressing support for Palestine amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. On Dec. 8, the organization and supporters gathered outside of the MCPS Board of Education for a news...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has failed to comment on an antisemitic mob Friday that vandalized walls across from synagogues in Westwood with anti-Israel slogans. As Breitbart News noted: Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized buildings near synagogues, as well as a nearby church, with anti-Israel graffiti on Friday night after demonstrating against President Joe Biden at a nearby fundraiser on Friday night. As Breitbart News reported, the protesters gathered outside a fundraiser near Beverly Hills, waving signs that included “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a call for Israel to be destroyed.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a discrimination complaint on behalf of a Black Muslim Arab American teacher in Maryland, who was placed on administrative leave for her email signature, which included a controversial phrase supporting Palestinian rights. Hajur El-Haggan, a middle school math teacher employed by the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) since 2015, was informed November 20 by the principal at Argyle Middle School the county was placing her on immediate leave because her email signature expressed political and personal views, says the complaint filed Wednesday. El-Haggan’s email signature included the phrase “From the river to...

To give the reader a fuller background into Liberty Nation’s exclusive interview with Rich Higgins, the author of the now infamous Higgins Memo, we republish it here in full without redaction.

An American-Muslim advocacy group condemned President Biden’s move to bypass Congress to sell thousands of tank shells to Israel, saying the administration’s decision was “an affront to democracy and an act of moral insanity.” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, decried the Biden administration’s decision, claiming that the move would embolden Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “kill more Palestinian civilians.” “Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress, emboldens Netanyahu to kill more Palestinian civilians and further stains our...

Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Muslim civil rights organization, defended the Oct. 7 attack while claiming Israel has no right to self-defense (President of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad ...) The co-founder and executive director of a major American Muslim civil rights organization characterized Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel in which more than 1,200 were killed as Gazans “break[ing] the siege, the walls of the concentration camp.” “Yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were...

Montgomery County, Maryland teacher and union official Angela Wolf / LinkedIn / Montgomery County Education Association ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Maryland teacher is on leave while the school system investigates her for a string of anti-Semitic social media posts that included creating a list of wealthy Jews in her county, claiming they horde wealth while contributing nothing to society, and calling for “class war.” Angela Wolf is head of the English Language Development department, which caters to immigrant children, at Takoma Park Middle School, in the most leftist enclave of liberal Montgomery County. Though she was temporarily removed from school, she remains...

The Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women. "More than 1,500 shocking testimonies that the mind and soul find it difficult to contain": a shocking discussion in the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women. In the shadow of the silence of the women's organizations in the world and in the presence of ambassadors, the committee for the promotion of the status of women in the Knesset held a discussion on the sexual abuse of Hamas terrorists • Warning: the article contains evidence that is difficult to read and is not recommended for anyone Itzik...

Works under Hamas and cooperated in the attack: this is the organization that is believed to be holding the children of the Bibas family. The IDF spokesman informed in Arabic that the Ni Oz babies, who were kidnapped by a Hamas operative, are apparently being held in Khan Yunis by another faction, and according to estimates in Israel, this is the terrorist organization the Popular Front. Very much in Gaza • On the other hand, in the West Bank his influence is greater with strict discipline, despite his small size Sapir Lipkin| N12 | Published 14:54 29.11.23 The organization that...

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad And where better to kick off that agenda than in New York City? The Muslim American Society, Samidoun, designated as a terrorist group, and other pro-terror hate groups have put out flyers threatening to “Flood the Tree Lightning for Gaza”. The “flood” reference is to Al Aqsa Flood: the Hamas name for the atrocities of Oct 7. The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting...

An Ohio man has been arrested for allegedly lying to police about being the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime. Hesham A. Ayyad, 20, told the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that a driver had hurled anti-Palestinian slurs at him and hit him with his car, according to an Oct. 23. CAIR press release demanding an investigation into the incident. North Ridgefield police arrested Ayyad on Tuesday and said he lied about the encounter and that his injuries had come from a fight with his brother, Cleveland.com reported. Ayyad told CAIR officials that he was walking home...

The far-right, anti-Islam party of firebrand politician Geert Wilders has won a stunning victory in the Dutch election, exit polls suggested Wednesday, a political earthquake that will resound in Europe and further afield.

Democrat Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown took action against a member of his own hate crime task force on Tuesday after numerous antisemitic social media posts by the member surfaced, including a claim that the babies murdered in the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas attack were "fake." Zainab Chaudry, an anti-Israel activist who serves as the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) Maryland office, made the posts in the weeks following Hamas' attack, which saw more than 1,200 people killed, including children and babies, as well as numerous rapes and destruction of property. "The Office of Attorney General learned...

Pressed on its support for Ohio resident who allegedly lied to police, CAIR condemns 'anti-Muslim extremists' Hesham Ayyad (North Ridgeville Police Department) A Muslim advocacy group is defending its decision to broadcast the claims of an Ohio man about a bogus anti-Palestinian hate crime. The man, Hesham Ayyad, was subsequently arrested for lying to police after he appeared to have fabricated the details of the crime.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has shaken the fascist Left to its core; nothing seems to be more frightening to Leftists than the prospect of free and open discourse. But the euphoria among patriots and fear and rage among Leftists may both have been premature: Musk announced early Wednesday morning that he had talked with a group of “civil society leaders” about how “Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment & enforce its election integrity policies.”Almost every one of the “leaders” with which Musk spoke was among the nation’s most prominent Leftists, and there was nary a critic of...

A Democratic lawmaker came under fire over the weekend, after she claimed that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel “provided” a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust. Rashida Tlaib, a freshman Democrat representing Michigan in the US House of Representatives, said in an interview with Yahoo!’s Skullduggery podcast program Saturday that she felt pride in the fact that her “ancestors, Palestinians” provided Jews with a haven after the Holocaust. “Let me tell you, I mean, for me, just two weeks ago or so, we celebrated, but just took a...

An Ohio man – who claimed he was a victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime – has been arrested after authorities suspect he faked the attack. Hesham A. Ayyad claimed that he was attacked for being Palestinian. He alleged that he was walking at 4:10 p.m. on Oct. 22 on a street in North Ridgeville, Ohio. Ayyad told officials at the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that someone driving a dark-colored SUV approached him on the road. Ayyad, of North Olmsted, said that he was the victim of a hit and run by the SUV. The day...

An Ohio man has been detained for reportedly lying to police officers about being the “victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.” According to authorities, 20-year-old Hesham Ayyad is facing charges for allegedly lying about how he “suffered injuries” for being the “victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.” On October 22nd, Ayyad was taken to the hospital after claiming to police officers that he had been struck by a vehicle in a “racially motivated” assault. Ayyad claimed to the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cleveland) that a male driver had “yelled anti-Palestinian insults” at him and then proceeded...

Fortified terror tunnel exposed underneath Gaza's Al Shifa hospital complex IDF says tunnel, outfitted with blast-proof door and firing hole, found alongside booby-trapped vehicle loaded with weapons

Hamas has already penetrated American society, and CAIR is the tip of the spear. After Hamas massacred 1,400 men, women, and children in Israel last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the terror group “and its allies” could inspire attacks on Americans “here on our own soil.” He also told the Senate that the FBI is conducting “multiple, ongoing investigations” into people affiliated with the U.S.-designated terrorist group. What Wray didn’t say is that the FBI has been investigating Hamas’ biggest ally in America for the past 30 years — without seeking any charges. Launched in 1994 as a...