US Advocacy Group Condemns Israeli Official’s Call to ‘Annihilate’ Gaza Cities
This is according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
Haaretz reported that Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is a member of the security cabinet, called for the “total annihilation” of Rafah and other areas of Gaza.
“There are no half measures. [The Gazan cities of] Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. ‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven,” he said.
In a statement, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said:
“In case the Israeli government’s genocidal intent in Gaza was unclear to anyone despite its daily war crimes against the Palestinian people, Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich’s words should serve as another wake-up call. The intent of the Netanyahu government has always been Palestinian land without Palestinians, and violence has always been the route to achieve that heinous goal. Instead of condemning college students, President Biden must condemn Israeli leaders for making and acting on their genocidal threats.”
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Earlier on Tuesday, CAIR condemned a decision by the Biden administration to violate U.S. law by continuing to fund units of the Israeli military that have been determined to have committed “gross violation of human rights.”
CAIR called on members of the U.S. House of Representatives to reject “one-sided, and dishonest” proposals about campus antisemitism that ignore anti-Palestinian racism and conflate criticism of the Israeli regime with antisemitism.
Source: Cair.com
