Letter to the Editor: Richard Sherman
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Letter to the Editor:
Notwithstanding praise from Deborah Lipstadt (Biden’s envoy to fight antisemitism) and some Jewish organizations for the recent White House report (“U.S. Strategy to Fight Antisemitism”), its inclusion of C.A.I.R. (Committee for American Islamic Relations) in this “fight”– is incredibly naive and is dangerous for the Jewish people –and emasculates the entire strategy. (“Lipstadt Lauds White Antisemitism Report”)
To posit that C.A.I.R. has any interest in fighting antisemitism represents a far-left Orwellian view of inclusivity.
As Egyptian scholar Cynthia Farahat recently wrote: “…C.A.I.R. was labeled by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator during the Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial because of C.A.I.R.’s pervasive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Palestine Committee’ which was established in 1988 to support the terrorist group Hamas.” (“The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Industry of Death,” Cynthia Farahat, 2022, page 339).
On May 1, 2022, Johnathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, declared that Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and C.A.I.R. “epitomize the radical Left, the photo inverse of the extreme Right that the ADL has long tracked.”
Mr. Greenblatt continued: “They (JVP, SJP and C.A.I.R.) indisputably and unapologetically regularly denigrate and dehumanize Jews.”
Recently, Zahra Billioo, San Francisco Executive Director of C.A.I.R., claimed all Zionist organizations are “enemies” and are part of “the Islamophobia conspiracy.”
On behalf of C.A.I.R. she also claimed that the IDF trains US police officers to “kill unarmed black men, women and children.”
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt specifically described Billoo’s C.A.I.R. speech as “textbook vile, antisemitic, conspiracy laden garbage attacking the mainstream Jewish community. It sounds like something you would expect from white supremacists.”
C.A.I.R. was created by the Muslim Brotherhood as a “civil rights” organization to provide legitimacy for its antisemitic goal of eliminating Israel and establishing a Muslim caliphate worldwide. Clearly any “interest” C.A.I.R. expresses in fighting antisemitism is pure taqiya.
To say Ms. Lipstadt is naive concerning C.A.I.R. is a gross understatement. The Jewish people have no greater enemy than C.A.I.R.
C.A.I.R.’s entire history makes clear that it is no more interested in fighting antisemitism than were Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann — who are both smiling from the very warm place where they reside — watching Ms. Lipstadt’s perverse contortions concerning a “fight” against antisemitism that includes C.A.I.R.
Richard Sherman, Margate, Fla.
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