{"id":1096574,"date":"2021-12-07T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096574"},"modified":"2021-12-07T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:14:04","slug":"cair-official-declares-u-s-jewish-groups-synagogues-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cair-official-declares-u-s-jewish-groups-synagogues-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Official Declares U.S. Jewish Groups, Synagogues \u2018Enemies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcair-official-declares-u-s-jewish-groups-synagogues-enemies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1174962958-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the San Francisco Bay Area called to \u201cknow your enemies\u201d as she blasted Jewish organizations, \u201cZionist\u201d synagogues, and Hillel campus groups who she accused of betrayal and supporting human rights violations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking on a panel at the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) annual conference in Chicago last month, Zahra Billoo, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.cair.com\/sfba\/member\/zahra-billoo\/\"><span>manages<\/span><\/a><span> one of the largest CAIR offices, warned the audience to \u201cpay attention\u201d to Jewish groups and institutions which she associated with betrayal.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CAIR Official: The Two-State Solution Is \u201cLaughable,\u201d Any Organization that Promotes It Is an Enemy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_AxxiROIvWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe need to pay attention to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). We need to pay attention to the Jewish Federation. We need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues. We need to pay attention to the Hillel chapters on our campuses,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause just because they\u2019re your friend today doesn\u2019t mean that they have your back when it comes to human rights,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Speaking against \u201cZionists,\u201d a term historically used as a euphemism for \u201cJews\u201d to avoid charges of antisemitism, Billoo called to \u201coppose the vehement fascists\u201d as well as the \u201cpolite Zionists, too,\u201d claiming they \u201care not your friends.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey will not be there for you when you need them,\u201d she said. \u201cThey will take your friendship and throw your Palestinian brothers and sisters under the bus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then ridiculed the notion of friendly relations with such \u201cZionists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Oh, you get along because you\u2019re all in Girl Scouts together?\u2019\u201d she asked mockingly. \u201cTalk to them about what is happening in Palestine and see how that conversation goes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting the \u201cconnections\u201d between Islamophobia and Zionism, she suggested the audience \u201cknow who is on your side\u201d and \u201cknow your enemies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m not going to sugarcoat that,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are your enemies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also accused \u201cZionist\u201d and \u201cforeign policy\u201d organizations of seeking to harm them.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThere are organizations and infrastructures out there who are working to harm you. Make no mistake of it. They would sell you down the line if they could, and they very often do behind your back,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI mean the Zionist organizations,\u201d she clarified. \u201cI mean the foreign policy organizations who say they\u2019re not Zionist but want a two-state solution.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Only days after Billoo\u2019s remarks, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/9LkYsruDXk\/\"><span>spoke<\/span><\/a><span> at a CAIR virtual banquet as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/press_releases\/breaking-rep-ilhan-omar-to-accept-american-muslim-public-servant-of-2021-award-live-at-dec-4-cair-annual-gala\/\"><span>accepted<\/span><\/a><span> the group\u2019s \u201cAmerican Muslim Public Servant of 2021\u201d award.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>CAIR, the largest Muslim human rights advocacy organization in the U.S., is a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionproject.org\/glossary\/muslim-brotherhood\/\"><span>Muslim Brotherhood<\/span><\/a><span> entity that was <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionproject.org\/analysis\/uae-doubles-down-designation-cair-terrorists\"><span>designated<\/span><\/a><span> a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The group was also named an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/rr\/blog_32.pdf\"><span>unindicted co-conspirator<\/span><\/a><span> in the Holy Land Foundation trial and Hamas financing case that resulted in the FBI <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/985\/fbi-cuts-off-cair-over-hamas-questions\"><span>discontinuing<\/span><\/a><span> its working relationship with the organization.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2009, a federal judge concluded the government had found \u201cample evidence\u201d to link <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/2340\/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas\"><span>CAIR with Hamas<\/span><\/a><span>, an Islamic terrorist organization that routinely disseminates and distributes both anti-Israel and antisemitic tropes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was at a private fundraiser for CAIR of Greater Los Angeles when Omar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/04\/09\/ilhan-omar-cair-formed-because-muslims-were-targeted-after-some-people-did-something-on-9-11\/\"><span>referred<\/span><\/a><span> to the September 11 terror attacks as a day in which \u201csome people did something.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Billoo, who served as a board member of the Women\u2019s March before being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Bay-Area-Muslim-leader-booted-off-Women-s-March-14453150.php\"><span>ousted<\/span><\/a><span> for tweets deemed antisemitic,<\/span><span> has made headlines in the past for her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/90Xcvdx59dE\"><span>opposition<\/span><\/a><span> to honoring fallen U.S. soldiers on Memorial Day, bashing the U.S. military, and taking aim at Muslim-Americans who serve in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She has also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarpedMirrorPMB\/status\/1173676319835664384?s=20\"><span>equated<\/span><\/a><span> the Jewish state with the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2007, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/YQzAS#selection-177.1-179.1\"><span>shared<\/span><\/a><span> an essay in which her brother, Ahmed Billoo, who served as president of Long Beach\u2019s radical anti-Israel Muslim Student Association, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/uncategorized\/14934\/\"><span>expressed<\/span><\/a><span> his belief in the righteousness of suicide bombers, of whom he said need to be evaluated on a \u201ccase-by-case basis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBlowing yourself up is not something everyone can do or something that everyone has the courage to do,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI just think it is something that Islam justifies,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the San Francisco Bay Area called to \u201cknow your enemies\u201d as she blasted Jewish organizations, 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