Republicans Were Right about CAIR and Nihad Awad

‘Iwas happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk[ing] free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in,” declared Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), to the applause of an audience at this year’s American Muslims for Palestine conference.

Awad called the 10/7 massacre an effort by beleaguered Gazans to “break the siege” of their “concentration camp.” He called the slaughter of innocents, the rape and mutilation of women, the murder of whole families in their beds and in the homes Hamas terrorists burned to the ground around them an act of “self-defense.” “And, yes,” Awad added, “Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense.”