{"id":4087,"date":"2010-06-14T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2010-06-25T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:03:58","slug":"4087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"CAIR-NY urges Sen. Schumer to retract statement against Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> June 14, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 14 CAIR-New York      accused Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who faces   reelection in November, of      making statements that were   \u201cunconscionable, reprehensible and in blatant      disregard for the   sanctity of human life,\u201d and demanded he retract them. CAIR      lifted a   quote from Schumer\u2019s remarks at a public event on June 9 that it        &#8220;makes sense&#8221; to &#8220;strangle [Gaza] economically,&#8221; while      omitting  the  context of the statement in which Schumer made clear that his        criticism was reserved for the Hamas regime and that \u201ccertainly there        should be humanitarian aid and people not starving to death.\u201d\u00a0 The full quote follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The boycott of Gaza to me has another purpose \u2014 obviously the first   purpose is to prevent Hamas from getting weapons by which they will use   to hurt Israel \u2014 but the second is actually to show the Palestinians   that when there\u2019s some moderation and cooperation, they can have an   economic advancement. When there\u2019s total war against Israel, which Hamas   wages, they\u2019re going to get nowhere. And to me, since the Palestinians   in Gaza elected Hamas, while certainly there should be humanitarian  aid  and people not starving to death, to strangle them economically  until  they see that\u2019s not the way to go, makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MBliz7wSCrw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MBliz7wSCrw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=403382074441\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=403382074441<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cair_schumer_NY_gaza.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/06\/11\/schumer-strangle-gaza-economically\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/06\/11\/schumer-strangle-gaza-economically\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Schumer_ThinkProgress1.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On June 16 the Center for Security Policy sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4093\">letter to Senator Charles Schumer<\/a> concerning CAIR\u2019s  unregistered foreign agent status and identifying CAIR&#8217;s urging Mr. Schumer to retract his statement as a foreign influence operation.\u00a0  A copy of the letter was also sent to Bureau Chief Heather Hunt of the  Foreign Agents Registration Unit at the Department of Justice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: June 14, 2010 Description: On June 14 CAIR-New York accused Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who faces reelection in November, of making statements that were \u201cunconscionable, reprehensible and in blatant disregard for the sanctity of human life,\u201d and demanded he retract them. CAIR lifted a quote from Schumer\u2019s remarks at a public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,123,128,112,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-foreign-policy","category-israel","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}