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Join on Telegram Rabat – The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged the US administration to “repudiate” recent remarks by Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance.
CAIR, which has been calling for a US strong act against Israel, called on Biden to repudiate “the latest open call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
“CAIR urged all Americans to contact the White House to demand action to end the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza,” the statement said on Sunday.
The remarks came after a series of controversial statements made by Smotrich, who said he supports Palestinian “migration” from Gaza.
“I welcome the initiative of members of Knesset Ram Ben-Barak and Danny Danon on the voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs to the countries of the world,” Smotrich wrote on his account on X, formerly Twitter in November last year.
He claimed that the “reception of refugees by countries of the world” is the “only solution that will bring the end of the suffering and pain of Jews and Arabs alike.”
The far-right minister’s remarks have been viewed as a call for ethnic cleansing incitement against Palestinians, who have suffered an unprecedented bloody war by Israeli occupation forces since October 7 .
Nihad Awad, CAIR’S National Executive Director, lamented the Israeli minister’s remarks. World leaders must “finally acknowledge what has long been known and demonstrated daily by Israel’s genocidal actions – that Israel’s racist government seeks to ethnically cleanse Gaza by slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians and making it unlivable for those it does not kill,” Awad stressed.
The CAIR official added that Israel has always adopted such a ethnic cleansing plan against Gaza.
“Smotrich just made it official,” Awad said, noting that the US failed to condemn such genocidal rhetoric.
Israeli occupation forces have been intensifying their ravaging war against civilians, killing at least 21,800 people in Gaza while hundreds of others were killed in the occupied West Bank.
The overall death toll in the two regions exceeded 22,100 victims while more than 60,000 others were injured – including children and women.
