by Ibrahim Garza in The College Fix
Two Biden foreign policy officials should lose their academic appointments, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
However, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi criticized the petition in emailed comments to The Fix.
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“CAIR has a long record of support for antisemitism and terrorism, and these statements are no exception,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken of the Coalition for Jewish values said via email.
He particularly criticized the group’s use of the term genocide, writing:
The term genocide, coined by a Jewish writer during the Holocaust, requires ‘intent to destroy’ a group, rather than any alternative explanation. So there are two options: 1) CAIR so devalues Jewish lives that it cannot imagine the Israelis might want to rescue hostages or eliminate the danger of the explicitly genocidal Hamas terror organization. Or 2) CAIR knows Israel is trying to prevent a genocide, but wants that genocide to happen, and is intentionally projecting its own hateful agenda upon the intended victims.
He also alleged the Muslim group “exists to fuel antisemitism.”
Menken also noted that CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, praised the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel.
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