Pro-Hamas Organizations: Hamas’s Friends in America

The support at American universities for Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis has understandably and rightly received much attention. But there are other institutions in the United States that have been at least as supportive, if not more so. Within hours of Hamas’s attack and taking of hostages, Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), tweeted in Arabic, “All Arab peoples must go out on Sunday, October 8, and every day, in demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and in rejection of normalization with the occupier and the apartheid regime.” The Hamas charter rejects peace “initiatives” and “so-called peaceful solutions,” saying that “there is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.”

In 1991, in an “explanatory memorandum,” the Muslim Brotherhood set forth the organization’s long-term plan in North America to establish a Brotherhood-led “Islamic movement” that “presents Islam as a civilization alternative,” supportive of the “Islamic state wherever it is.”

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The support at American universities for Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis has understandably and rightly received much attention. But there are other institutions in the United States that have been at least as supportive, if not more so. Within hours of Hamas’s attack and taking of hostages, Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), tweeted in Arabic, “All Arab peoples must go out on Sunday, October 8, and every day, in demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and in rejection of normalization with the occupier and the apartheid regime.” The Hamas charter rejects peace “initiatives” and “so-called peaceful solutions,” saying that “there is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.”

In 1991, in an “explanatory memorandum,” the Muslim Brotherhood set forth the organization’s long-term plan in North America to establish a Brotherhood-led “Islamic movement” that “presents Islam as a civilization alternative,” supportive of the “Islamic state wherever it is.”