The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said Trump administration officials must “finally speak out” after Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reportedly said Gaza will soon “be completely destroyed” and its population “will leave in large numbers to third countries.”
In a statement, CAIR said:
“Trump administration officials, including President Trump himself, must finally speak out against the clear and unambiguous genocidal aims and actions of the Netanyahu regime, which our own government has supported and enabled in the past 19 months and in past decades.
“Benjamin Netanyahu and many other Israeli officials will go down in history as genocidal war criminals. American officials must act to avoid a similarly disgraceful fate.”
CAIR noted that a well-known Israeli TV producer recently called for a “Gaza holocaust, gas chambers.” Elad Barashi post on X: “Good morning, let there be a Shoa (Holocaust) in Gaza.”
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu compared Israel’s new war plans in Gaza to the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians, known as the “Nakba.”
Yesterday, CAIR said President Trump “must stop the Netanyahu regime before it completes the genocide in Gaza” after Israel approved plans to occupy all of Gaza indefinitely, to ethnically cleanse most of the area and to concentrate the population in camps in the south where they would be fed limited rations by U.S. contractors.
Also yesterday, CAIR said Israel’s acts of inhumanity in Gaza must be stopped after video was posted online of Israeli occupation forces in Gaza blowing up a building as part of a “gender reveal” celebration.
Israel has slaughtered more than 52,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. Since Israel broke the ceasefire in March, its forces have murdered more than 800 Palestinian children.
Amnesty International: Two months of cruel and inhumane siege are further evidence of Israel’s genocidal intent in Gaza
Over the weekend, CAIR said “international law no longer exists” after another Palestinian child reportedly died of Israeli-imposed – and U.S.-supported – forced starvation in Gaza.
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6 May 2025
Source: cair.com