Nihad Awad, cofounder and executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is shocked that anyone would think he is anti-Semitic. He stands in solidarity with his Jewish brothers and sisters against white extremists. And, after all, the Palestinians are the new Jews. The White House is in error and should reconsider its position, because he was just saying that he was happy that ordinary Palestinians could walk freely. He never apologized. He never condemned the atrocities of October 7, or Hamas.
“CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad Responds To White House Criticism Of His Position On Hamas’s October 7 Attack: When I Said I Was Happy, I Meant I Was Happy To See Regular Palestinians Walking Free On The Land That Was Ethnically Cleansed,” MEMRI, December 9, 2023:
Executive director of the Council for American-Islamic Relations – CAIR Nihad Awad addresssed in a December 9, 2023 interview with Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) the backlash of his statement that he was happy to see the people of Gaza break the siege on October 7 (see MEMRITV clip number 10705). Awad said that White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates’ condemnation of his remarks as antisemitic was “unjust.” Awad added that if the White House actually saw the video of his speech, “they would not have uttered the word that they did.”
However, the video of Awad’s November 24, 2023 speech at the AMP convention, titled: “Palestine Convention Session 3 Gaza in Context,” which was posted on the YouTube channel of American Muslims in Palestine was removed from the channel. Awad clarified that when he said he was happy on October 7, he meant that he was happy “that regular Palestinian residents walked free in the land that was ethnically cleansed.”
Interviewer: “I don’t know, you walked [into] a hornet’s nest, or you threw a hornet’s nest, with your comments that you were glad to see the siege of Gaza ended on October 7. The White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, the New York Times, said: ‘We condemn these shocking antisemitic statements in the strongest terms.’ What are your reactions to the White House, and what were you trying to say?”
Nihad Awad: “I am shocked that the White House misconstrued my statement, and labeled me the way they labeled me, unjustly, and without any justification. That is not what I said, I never said that. Actually, if they saw the video, if they saw my speech, they would not have uttered the word that they did. So for that, I ask the White House to reconsider their position, and hear what I said. What I said is that the siege on Gaza is illegal and the Palestinians deserve freedom.
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“I always said, and I continue to say, that I will fight antisemitism in the same way, the same strength and vigor that I fight Islamophobia, because both phenomena are evil, and those communities – both the Jewish community and the Muslim community – are targeted because of their faith by extremists, and usually by white extremists.
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“I never meant and I never said actually that I support the violence against civilian people – both Israelis and Palestinians.
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“So when I say I was happy [on October 7], I meant that regular Palestinian residents walked free in the land that was ethnically cleansed.
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“Dehumanization is the first step towards genocide. Jews have gone through this experience in Europe, in many places, and the Palestinians are going through this now in Palestine.
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“You cannot live in peace if your neighbor is not in peace, and if you look at your neighbor as a subhuman, and you can exploit them and subjugate them just because you think that somehow you are promised something that was never promised to you.”
Bexarkat says
The term “Jew” is used as an slur by Arabs to other Arabs. Hamas has launched innumerable attacks via rocket, fire balloons, infiltration into Israel, and outright acts of terror long before October 7th. These alone negate what Awad is trying to get from under.
somehistory says
The lying scum said he was “happy,” and then said he didn’t say what the WH spokesperson said he said, but that he was “happy”….Either he said he was “happy” or he didn’t say it….when he actually did say it and he can’t wiggle out of that.
And saying that they should ‘listen’ to what he said, after it was taken down. and he said that he said, ““that regular Palestinian residents walked free in the land that was ethnically cleansed.” How is that any better?
Is he saying that hamas “ethnically cleansed” the land of Jews? And then those “palestinaian residents” who followed the terrorists into Israel ”walked free” as they helped in the rape, slaughter and kidnapping?
And there is this from the liar: “I never meant and I never said actually that I support the violence”
Notice the qualifier “actually” and he then includes the “palestinians” against whom he didn’t wish violence.
He should just go quietly and repent in dust and ashes for his evil support of terrorism, rape, kidnapping, torture, dismembering and murder of innocent people, including tiny babies.
Hoi Polloi says
You’re right; there’s just too much tangled web here to not want to pick at it.
“white extremists” who are part of this story in what way, other than his fantasy that he can shape all this into a call for jihad against them?
“The White House” ….. Is that extremist, too and why does he so need that affiliation if white is a dirty concept to him?
Wiki: “An Arab can be defined as a member of a Semitic people, inhabiting much of the Middle East and North Africa.” So he’s got a bit of dancing to do here. He’s only partially antisemitic, maybe, is the mental gymnastic technique he uses to taqiyah this through? The palis who waded freely through the blood of Jews are the ones he doesn’t wish death upon, clearly.
“You cannot live in peace if your neighbor is not in peace, and if you look at your neighbor as a subhuman.” Like their supremacist ideology calling Jews dogs, calling for slaughter of the infidel, or assigning women and blacks half-human status?
somehistory says
awad is courting politicians like this idiot in Boston and her Black aide
“Boston’s woke Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu plans no WHITES Christmas party for councilors: Aide accidentally sent group email invite meant only for ‘electeds of color”
then, she sent an email uninviting the seven Whites, saying she was “sorry if offended” or “confused” she “may have caused.”
I don’t believe “electeds” is a valid term.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/boston-s-woke-democrat-mayor-michelle-wu-plans-no-whites-christmas-party-for-councilors-aide-accidentally-sent-group-email-invite-meant-only-for-electeds-of-color/ar-AA1lrZJi?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c84f06b9dd5f4dce911b491f1b5bb8e2&ei=37
somehistory says
You, also, are right. The ‘white’ remark… is it to keep blm on his side? To enrage the ‘woke’ into a greater frenzy against Jews and Christians in the U.S.?
And more people should be asking *why* the WH connection is so important to him and his terror-supporting org.
bill says
There is no siege and if there is a blockade against the import or transfer of goods that may be used for building tunnels and rockest to fire at innocent Israelis, it is entirely Hamas’ fault that it is necessary. If it was an actual ‘total’ blocade how was it possile for iran to supply them with so much ammunition and explosives
His words are specious and he as Moose Limb is clearly lying.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Jihadists of Hamas who viciously engaged in that malicious and murderous Islamic terrorist jihad attack against those peaceful young people at that music festival , on October 7th., are also horrendously heinous and vile by raping girls and women and brutally cruelly hateful and wickedly mutilating them are Muslim terrorists of the most abhorrent and despicable sort.
Those Hamas jihadists are an outright abomination.
Walter Sieruk says
The sad truth and terrible reality is that many times history repeats itself, as then evil happenings do reoccur.
As with that October 7th. 2023 murderous jihadists attacks against all those young people at that music festival, which was intended by the Israeli’s to be a joyful event but the vicious and death infecting jihadist of Hamas turned it into a tragic event.
Six years before that Islamic abomination occurred at that place in the State of Israel ,there was that murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester of the United Kingdom, the British of the city had intended that concert to be a joyful event but that vicious and death inflecting jihadist suicide/homicide bomber turned it into a tragic event.
The deluded dangerous deadly and demonic evils of Islam’s jihadists has no limit.
Walter Sieruk says
Those deadly Islamic terror/ jihadist affront attacks as those which happened on May 22,2017 in the United Kingdom and then on October 7th 2023 in the State of Israel are based Islam’s Qu’ran . As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
Therefore, an important question needs to and should be asked “Is the Qu ‘ran true or a religious hoax?”
Likewise, it’s also appropriated to ask ” Does the Qu’ ran have errors and contradictions in it ?
The answer to that question is found on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qu‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qu’ran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu ‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” In addition , in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Westman says
It will be interesting to hear if the White House tries to whitewash this lying skunk. I’m betting they don’t and A-wad will be replaced as Director of CAIR.
Rarely says
“Some of my best friends are Jews”.
tgusa says
Thanks for showing us your true colors rat guy. Duly noted.
somehistory says
“Dem Sen praised ‘diversity and equality’ efforts of Islamic group whose leader was ‘happy to see’ Hamas attack”
“”October 7th was a brutal and vicious attack on innocent Israeli civilians,” Casey told Fox News Digital. “I unequivocally condemn the antisemitic and hateful comments made by CAIR’s leadership and any comments that celebrate the despicable acts of Hamas terrorists.””
“Meanwhile, dozens of federal lawmakers across the U.S. have also previously expressed support for CAIR, and some remained silent when asked by Fox News Digital about the co-founder’s stance on the horrific attacks that left 1,200 dead and others captured.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dem-sen-praised-diversity-and-equality-efforts-of-islamic-group-whose-leader-was-happy-to-see-hamas-attack/ar-AA1lvOta?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68673e174f304b9d97024f0c9ad206d8&ei=36