CAIR running ‘coordinated national campaign’ to promote pro-terrorist, anti-Israel materials in US public schools, investigation finds

Sen. Cotton has also asked the IRS to formally investigate CAIR over violations of its tax-exempt status, citing “ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

By Matthew Xiao, The Washington Free Beacon

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is running a “coordinated national campaign” to spread pro-terrorist, anti-Israel materials into U.S. public schools, beyond the previously reported programs in Pennsylvania and Delaware, according to a new investigation.

“CAIR’s efforts to sanitize the Sept. 11 attacks to K-12 students extend far beyond Philadelphia and Delaware, spanning New Jersey, Oklahoma, Florida, and Illinois in what appears to be a coordinated national campaign,” Jewish Onliner wrote in a Wednesday X thread, accusing CAIR of deliberately seeking to “systematically indoctrinate American students” across the country.

The report comes just a day after Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) called on the Department of Education to investigate CAIR for running “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives in public schools across Pennsylvania and Delaware.

The lesson plans, which CAIR’s Philadelphia office created in partnership with the two states’ K-12 schools, include instructions against using such terms as “jihadists” and “radical Islamic terrorists” when discussing 9/11.

Such materials “perpetuate pro-terrorist, anti-Israel rhetoric,” Cotton wrote in his letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

CAIR, whose executive director celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, is already under congressional investigation for its support of pro-Hamas protests across the United States.

Cotton has also asked the IRS to formally investigate CAIR over violations of its tax-exempt status, citing “ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,” the Washington Free Beacon first reported.

Jewish Onliner in its thread noted that “CAIR Philadelphia credits CAIR National and CAIR LA for curating the majority of the content,” which suggests that “the educational materials aren’t local initiatives—they’re being developed and distributed by CAIR’s national organization across multiple chapters.”

“CAIR Oklahoma hosts the identical 9/11 teaching guide,” the thread goes on, “BUT the document bears CAIR’s NATIONAL HQ address in Washington DC—not Oklahoma’s local office, unlike CAIR Philadelphia’s. Further confirmation of centralized coordination from CAIR’s main headquarters.”

In New Jersey, CAIR has promoted its “9/11 in the Classroom” guide on Instagram in partnership with the group Teaching While Muslim.

In Illinois, CAIR-Chicago openly advertises a partnership with Chicago Public Schools, meaning that “an alleged terror-tied group is directly collaborating with one of America’s LARGEST school districts, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of students since 2014,” according to Jewish Onliner.

“CAIR Florida has developed its own version of the 9/11 lesson plan following the same patterns,” Jewish Onliner went on. “The nationwide coordination becomes seemingly undeniable.”

“Such an organization should never have access to our nation’s children,” Cotton wrote in his letter to McMahon.

“The U.S. Department of Education must ensure that CAIR is not given an opportunity to push its radical, pro-terrorist, anti-Israel ideology on American schoolchildren.”