New CAIR Data Shows Anti-Muslim, Anti-Palestinian Hate Remain Elevated in First Half of 2024
| Al enteshar Newspaper January to June complaints received by the Muslim civil rights organization increased by 69 percent over the same period in 2023 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said the surge in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate that erupted last October continues in the first half of the 2024. From January to June 2024, CAIR documented 4,951 incoming complaints, a sixty-nine percent increase over the same period in 2023. Education discrimination incidents spiked in May as student encampments urging universities to take an anti-genocide stand dominated media headlines. The experience of students and employees during this cycle of anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate remain the standout trends compared to past cycles. SEE: US anti-Muslim incidents rose about 70% in first half of 2024 amid Gaza war – Reuters [NOTE: In January of this year, CAIR released civil rights data showing that it has received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023 amid an ongoing wave of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate. In April, CAIR released its civil rights report, which revealed the highest number of complaints it has ever received in its 30-year history.] “Too many places of higher education, which have historically permitted Islamophobic speakers to poison their campus in the name of academic freedom, apparently find anti-genocide speech intolerable. Since last fall university administrators have been a primary perpetrator of anti-Muslim racism,” said CAIR Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor. Saylor added, “Our data shows that as student protests dominated media coverage of the movement opposing the Gaza genocide, employers also continued punishing their employees for their viewpoints. We are also seeing Federal Agencies like Customs and Border Protection and the FBI interpreting being Muslim or anti-genocide as suspicious activity.” [NOTE: CAIR urges individuals who have experienced religious discrimination or been targeted because of their religion to file a complaint with us. We provide legal and advocacy services free of charge.] CAIR asserts that the primary force behind this wave of heightened Islamophobia was onset of the latest round of violence in Israel’s decades long occupation and use of apartheid policies in Palestine in October of last year. This resource is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library in partnership with the California Department of Social Services and the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs as part of the Stop the Hate program. To report a hate incident or hate crime and get support, go to CA vs Hate. |
