CAIR joins Hamas condemnation of Israeli hostage rescue

On 8 June Israeli forces carried out a hostage rescue mission, successfully freeing 4 Israelis held by the terrorist organization Hamas.

The 4 hostages were being held in a densely populated region in Gaza, in close proximity to Palestinian non-combatants. At least one of the hostages was being held at the home of a Palestinian “journalist” who worked for a U.S. based 501(c)3 organization and was a contributor to the Qatari state media outlet Al Jazeera. This confirms what many have claimed all along: Al Jazeera is in league with jihadist organizations.

Not surprisingly, Palestinian sources took to social media to make completely unconfirmed claims of massive civilian casualties inflicted by the Israeli rescue mission. To date, none of these claims have been corroborated by any legitimate source.

Again, not surprising. Hamas and other Palestinian jihadist groups, along with their allies have a long history of lying, staging mass casualty incidents and accusing others of the atrocities that they themselves have committed.

One organization that parroted the Hamas line on the hostage rescue mission was CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR executive director Nihad Awad condemned the mission and claimed that it killed hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians. He cited no sources for his claim. This is the third unsurprising aspect of this situation, namely that CAIR would repeat Hamas propaganda here in the US.

There is substantial, convincing evidence that CAIR itself is part of Hamas. In fact, CAIR was founded as a result of the efforts of a secretive organization called the Palestine Committee to support Hamas according to wiretap evidence by the US Department of Justice which was presented in a federal trial. That evidence demonstrates convincingly that CAIR is a front for terrorism.

You can read the entire story in a monograph published by the Center for Security Policy entitled CAIR is HAMAS: How the Federal Government Proved that the Council on American Islamic Relations is a Front for Terrorism.

As the monograph explains:

On an October day in 1993, men from around the country had gathered together in the meeting room of a Philadelphia Hotel. They came from different places and they worked in different fields but they all had one thing in common. Membership in a covert organization, known as the Palestine Committee, with a single goal, to do whatever it took to support Hamas, a group formed by the secretive Muslim Brotherhood to wage a violent jihad against Israel and the Jewish people. Since its founding the Palestine Committee had committed itself to raising millions of dollars for, and spreading propaganda on behalf of, Hamas in the United States. The members of the Palestine Committee feared that the signing of the Oslo Accords would soon lead the U.S. government to designate Hamas as a terrorist group. They knew that to continue their work, they would need help. A new organization, designed to defend their interests, push their message and keep law enforcement off their back. That organization would come to be called the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR. But there was one thing the members of the Palestine Committee didn’t know. The FBI was recording every word they spoke as they conspired. The transcripts of the infamous so-called “Philly Meeting” would become key primary evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, the massive Hamas terror finance trial that would lead to convictions on all 108 charges against key Hamas financiers. The federal judge in that trial would rule that the government provided “ample evidence” for associating CAIR with Hamas, and for its status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case. This book features original Holy Land Foundation trial testimony of FBI agent Lara Burns as she walks acting district attorney Barry Jonas through the events leading up to, and during this historic moment in counterterrorism.

It is not surprising that a Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas front would be supporting Hamas and spreading its propaganda here in the US. We have seen the fruits of that effort as pro-Hamas, antisemitic demonstrators and rioters have disrupted campus life at US colleges and universities and illegally blocked traffic on our highways and roadways, actually endangering innocent civilians. What is unacceptable is that the present-day US Department of Justice has let them get away with this material support for a designated foreign terrorist organization.