CAIR
Official Calls for Israel's Termination
by IPT News • Nov 26, 2018 at
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 Hussam Ayloush, a
senior Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official, in a tweet on Sunday called for the Jewish state to be "terminated."
"Iran's regime calling Israel a 'cancerous tumor' is like the pot
calling the kettle black. All the people of that region will be better off
once both murderous regimes are terminated," Ayloush wrote.
Based on this tweet, one might assume Ayloush has an equal disdain for
the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel. However, whereas Ayloush would
like to see regime change in Iran, he has a history of describing Israel in
ways that echo Iranian rhetoric calling for its destruction.
He has referred to Israelis as "zionazis" and
repeatedly equated the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with ISIS
terrorists.
"You know how many hundreds of Jewish American kids are recruited
to join the Israeli occupation army? Hundreds. Every year. They leave their
country, leave America, to go join with an army that is engaged, with no
debate, in major violations of human rights, and maybe some would argue,
and I'm one of them, war crimes," Ayloush said in May, adding that "no one has ever
established a CVE program to see, why would normal Jewish American kids
leave their home and join to be part of an army committing war
crimes."
That kind of comparison "is frankly insane," British Muslim
Maajid Nawaz, a former radical who now fights Islamist ideologies, said in 2015.
It's also anti-Semitic, according to the U.S. State Department's definition established in 2010.
Demonizing Israel by "[d]rawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli
policy to that of the Nazis" and "denying Israel the right to
exist" are among the behaviors which constitute anti-Semitism.
Now Ayloush is trying to equate Israel with the Islamic Republic of Iran
– the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism worldwide which continues
to actively plot attacks throughout the West.
He didn't call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be voted
out and replaced by someone less hawkish in the conflict with Palestinians.
He called for it to be terminated.
 Ayloush runs CAIR's
Los Angeles chapter and remains politically influential despite his radical
views on the Middle East conflict. According to his Facebook profile, he remains a delegate in California's Democratic Party.
As we've noted previously, Ayloush's willingness to make
outrageous comparisons likening Israel to the world's greatest terrorists,
he bristles at the very question of whether Hamas is a terrorist
organization. In a 2013 exchange captured on video, Ayloush angrily dismissed
the question as "not acceptable," and "proves that you have
nothing but bigotry in you."
It's difficult to imagine a parallel circumstance in which a prominent
public figure calls for the "termination" of a foreign state and
manages to retain his influence. Ayloush isn't criticizing a specific
policy. He wants an existing nation to disappear.
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