The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wins landmark victory in Texas as Anti-BDS Act is struck down

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United State’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, won its lawsuit on behalf of Bahia Amawi. Amawi, a speech language pathologist in Texas, lost her job after she declined to sign a contract that would renew her employment with the Austin public school district because it included…

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France 2 report on BDS panics CRIF (video)

February 23, 2016 On February 10, France 2 published a report on the BDS movement that elicited a violent reaction from CRIF, who wrote to President of French Television Delphine Ernotte arguing that the report was “apologetic to the BDS movement and contributes to misinformation and the delegitimization of Israel.” “The experience showed us that…

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UC regents have bigger issues than student rep debate

July 18, 2014 For the second consecutive year, the UC regents board is embroiled in an unnecessary and counterproductive controversy over the views of its student representatives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On Wednesday, the regents voted to confirm the selection of Abraham “Avi” Oved, a UCLA economics major who will begin his senior year this…

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An Interfaith Trojan Horse: Faithwashing Apartheid and Occupation

By Sana Saeed July 1, 2014   Interfaith work has the potential to create and sustain profound relationships across religions.  But what happens when interfaith work becomes a trojan horse? In this piece I explore the Muslim Leadership Initiative, a program which sends American Muslims leaders to Israel to study Judaism and Zionism and is funded…

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