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CAIR calls on Biden to demand Israel release Ahed Tamimi

CAIR and its members have been at the center of a host of different controversies regarding antisemitism.

|BySAM HALPERN
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, gives a peace sign following her speech at the annual festival of Greek Communist Youth in Athens, Greece, September 22, 2018.
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Government funded Canada Muslim org hosts anti-LGBTQ, pro-terrorism speakers

One speaker has said in the past that all homosexuals deserve the death penalty, and another praised terrorist attacks from the recent terrorism wave in Israel.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (San Francisco) addresses the audience during a panel discussion titled 'Dismantling All Forms Of Oppression' during the three-day Women's Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 28, 2017

CAIR official takes sabbatical after Zionist Islamophobia speech outrage

CAIR San Francisco executive-director Zahra Billoo has gone on sabbatical after strain at work, but detractors argue she is taking a leave of absence related to her recent speech.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (San Francisco) addresses the audience during a panel discussion titled 'Dismantling All Forms Of Oppression' during the three-day Women's Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 28, 2017

CAIR supports member that said 'Zionist synagogues' behind Islamophobia

Zahra Billoo claimed Zionist organizations were behind Islamophobia, police brutality, and border control.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Zionists are behind Islamophobia, US police brutality - CAIR official

Billoo claimed Zionist organizations were behind Islamophobia, police brutality, and border control.

DECEMBER 6, 2021
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (San Francisco) addresses the audience during a panel discussion titled 'Dismantling All Forms Of Oppression' during the three-day Women's Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 28, 2017

Zahra Billoo kicked off Women's March board

After a series of allegedly antisemitic tweets arose, including one in which Billoo says "Israel commits war crimes and terrorism as a hobby," the Women's March voted her off its board.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, Council on American Islamic Relations (San Francisco) addresses the audience during a panel discussion titled 'Dismantling All Forms Of Oppression' during the three-day Women's Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., October 28, 2017

Women's March board member, Zahra Billoo compares IDF soldiers to ISIS

Billoo tweeted that she doesn't "see the difference between American youth leaving the country to join ISIS or the IDF."

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Women take part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, U.S., March 8, 2017