{"id":3361,"date":"2018-12-22T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajcongress.org\/jewishpoliticalguide\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2024-01-23T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:46:44","slug":"jewish-insider-rep-jahana-hayes-met-with-connecticut-cair-chapter-earlier-this-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajcongress.org\/jewishpoliticalguide\/jewish-insider-rep-jahana-hayes-met-with-connecticut-cair-chapter-earlier-this-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JEWISH INSIDER: Rep. Jahana Hayes met with Connecticut CAIR chapter earlier this month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 06: Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) participates in a House Education and Labor Committee Markup on the H.R. 582 Raise The Wage Act, in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Marc Rod<\/a>, Jewish Insider<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) met with affiliates of the Council on American Islamic Relations\u2019 (CAIR) Connecticut chapter in early December, according to a Facebook post<\/a> from the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAIR has come under recent scrutiny over its supportive rhetoric regarding Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Days after Hayes\u2019 meeting, CAIR\u2019s founder and executive director Nihad Awad was revealed to have praised the Hamas attack<\/a> and invoked antisemitic tropes. The group has a long record of extreme anti-Israel rhetoric, including a statement on Oct. 7<\/a> that condemned Israel while making no mention of the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the CAIR Connecticut Facebook post, Hayes met with Muslim leaders from her district to discuss the conflict and her policies toward Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayes spokesperson Sidney Johnson told Jewish Insider<\/em>, \u201cThe Congresswoman has held several meetings with all constituents who have deep concerns about the ongoing war. Her statements make her position clear. She has a responsibility to listen to all of her constituents, even if they disagree on serious issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She did not address whether Hayes or her staff were aware of CAIR\u2019s comments on the Oct. 7 attack before the meeting, did not offer any direct response to such comments and did not respond to a question about whether Hayes would still have met with the group if she had been aware of its director\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayes represents a competitive Connecticut district that the Cook Political Report rates as \u201cLean Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several Democrats who have met or worked with CAIR in the past have distanced themselves from the group in the wake of Awad\u2019s comments. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) condemned Awad\u2019s comments to Fox News, and said she would not be associating with CAIR ever again. 

\u201cI condemn these blatantly antisemitic comments in no uncertain terms, and these remarks have led to me completely losing faith in the organization and its work,\u201d Baldwin said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House scrubbed a mention of the group<\/a> from a document connected to its antisemitism strategy and said it would not meet with the group as it develops a strategy on Islamophobia. 

Additional Democratic lawmakers who have affiliated with CAIR in the past have condemned Awad\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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