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548:"Targeting civilians is wrong, whether they are Palestinian, Israeli, American or any other nationality. Yet our nation has given a green light for Netanyahu's far-right, openly racist government to continue its medieval siege and mass bombing of civilians in Gaza. @POTUS must bring this week of horrific violence to an end and then pursue a just and lasting peace before more Palestinian and Israeli civilians perish. Our National Executive Director @NihadAwad's full statement on President Biden's speech ⬇️"
257:. The people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense.” During the same speech, he condemned violence against Jews as "a real evil". He later clarified that these remarks were only an endorsement of Palestinian civilians who briefly crossed the
207:... there are some radicals, we are not interested in those people." At the time Awad expressed support for Hamas, the group had not conducted suicide bombings and was not designated a terrorist organization by the US. Awad said in 2006 that he no longer supports the group and has condemned suicide bombings.
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said, "We condemn these shocking, antisemitic statements in the strongest terms," and ended its work with CAIR on crafting a national antisemitism strategy.
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