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Cair reported the record of 8 658 complaints of discrimination in 2024, when the Gaza War roused Islamophobia.
Discrimination and attacks on Muslims and Arabs in the United States have affected a new record in 2024 against the background of the Israeli war, a group of intercession reported.
A report published by the US-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Council on Tuesday is said that 8 658 complaints about anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents last year-representing 7.4 percent increase in the year, as the group began to collect data in 1996.
Employment discrimination complaints were the most common at 15.4 percent of the total. Immigration and asylum complaints represent 14.8 percent, education 9.8 percent and hatred crimes 7.5 percent.
The defenders of the rights emphasized the increase in Islamophobia, the anti -Arab biases and the anti -Semitism after the Hamas attack in October 2023, Israel began the devastating pressure of gas.
“For the second consecutive year, the US -backed genocide Gaza has dumped a wave of Islamophobia in the United States,” Cair said.
Israel denies allegations of genocide and war crimes.
Last month, a man was found guilty of a hatred crime for the fatal piercing of a six -year -old Palestinian American boy 18 months ago.
Other alarming incidents from the end of 2023 include an attempt to drown a three -year Palestinian American girl in Texas, the stabbing of a Palestinian American man, also in Texas, a beating of a Muslim in New York, and the shooting of two visitors to Israel, who suspected of being Palestinian.
University protest to fight
Cair also noted a repression of pro-Palestinian protests in university campuses.
Demonstrators have for months requires the termination of US support for Israel. In the summer of 2024, the hours were canceled, university administrators resigned and students protesters were stopped and arrested.
Remarkable incidents include violent arrests by police at Protesters at Columbia University and an attack on the mafia against propalist protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump has requested an activation against the protests.
Mahmoud Halil, Palestinian graduate student who serves as a negotiator between the propalist protesters and the Colombian University of the New York Administration, was arrested This week by immigration officials, although it has a permanent resident green card.
Trump has written on social media that Halil is “the first arrest of many.”
“We know that there are more students in Colombia and other universities across the country who have been involved in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity and the Trump administration will not tolerate it,” he added.
Cair New York AFAF Nasher CEO has condemned the arrest as a “shocking escalation”, which “sets a dangerous precedent and threatens civil freedoms to all.”
