CAIR: Attacks, discrimination against US Muslims, Palestinians jumps 70% in first half of 2024
Washington (Quds News Network)- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said on Tuesday that cases of discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians in the United States rose by about 70 percent from January to June 2024 amid heightened Islamophobia due to Israel’s war on Gaza.
CAIR said it received 4,951 complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian incidents in the first six months of 2024, which is a steep rise compared with the same period last year as it documented 8,061 complaints in the whole of 2023, including about 3,600 in the last three months after the war broke out, Reuters reported.
Most of the complaints were in the categories of immigration and asylum, employment discrimination, education discrimination and hate crimes, the advocacy group said.
Serious incidents against Muslims and Palestinians in the US in the nine months since Israel’s war on Gaza began include the fatal October stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American child in Illinois, the February stabbing of a Palestinian-American man in Texas, the shooting of three students of Palestinian descent in Vermont in November and the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian-American girl in May.
