Thread by @AkivaMCohen

Here's what @ZahraBilloo said in the speech @CAIRNational is defending:

"let's fight the root causes, and that's what this conversation is about. The connection between islamophobia and zionism"

https://twitter.com/CAIRNational/status/1470064198579335169

"this is not a hidden connection. All of you in this room and hopefully everyone within six degrees of separation from you knows that islamophobia is a well-funded conspiracy- a well-funded project, a well-funded project to marginalize us to imprison us to deport us to silence us

"they're afraid of our advocacy. They know that muslims fight for black lives matter ... and most importantly they know what my parents taught us that muslims fight for palestine that muslims will fight for a free palestine and so they must come after us"

"the organizations that promote zionist agendas materials marketing and legislation are the same ones that want to ban muslims are the same ones that want to pass anti-sharia legislation ..."

"i also want us to pay attention to the polite zionists, ... we need to pay attention to the anti-defamation league we need to pay attention to the jewish federation we need to pay attention to the zionist synagogues we need to pay attention to
the hillel chapters on our campuses

"the next thing i'm going to tell you is to know your enemies, and i'm not going to sugarcoat that they
are your enemies ... i mean the zionist organizations i mean the foreign policy organizations who say they're not zionists but want a two-state solution ..."

Here's the statement that came immediately after her speech (which, again, CAIR is defending):

"and she's absolutely right normalization - normalization has no space with us we will not normalize nor will we respect those who do"

The entire panel was dedicated to "the hidden links and secret agendas" behind Islamophobia - i.e. blaming a Jewish conspiracy and zionism for anti-muslim bigotry.

Video and transcript here