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Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director "Happy to See" Oct. 7 Hamas Terror Attack
(Jewish Insider) Gabby Deutch - Council on American-Islamic Relations executive director Nihad Awad told a November conference hosted by American Muslims for Palestine, "Yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were not allowed to walk in." Audience members cheered Awad's remarks. "Yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, had the right to defend themselves," said Awad. "Yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense." Awad did not differentiate between "the people of Gaza" and the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attack. "Gaza became the liberation source, the inspiration for so many people. The Gazans were victorious."