Woman tied to Islamic ‘civil rights’ group calls on ISIS to exterminate Jews
A woman with strong ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was caught on video Thursday calling on ISIS to exterminate the Jews and saying she is conspiring with several terror groups.
Noora Shalash, a 39-year-old Muslim from Lexington, Kentucky, began harassing Jews in an office building at 950 Third Avenue in New York City on Thursday. A video posted to social media shows her hissing at a Hasidic man who walked by and then following him into an elevator. Seth Bell, an occupant of the building who took the video, heard Shalash shouting the words “Jew,” “genocide,” and “Palestine.” Two security guards came to remove her, but Shalash repeatedly refused to leave.
When Bell asked her if she was an antisemite, Shalash flew into a rage and tried to swat the phone out of his hand as she was being held back by security personnel. She reportedly kicked Bell and struck him in the head before shouting in Arabic and calling for the genocide of Jews.
“F–k the Jews . . . I demand Jihad! I want ISIS to kill all of you! I am conspiring with Hamas, Palestinian Jihad and with ISIS, I am conspiring with them!” she screamed.
The group Jew Hate Database identified Shalash as CAIR’s director of government affairs in Kentucky, though CAIR denies that Shalash still works for the organization. In a post on X, CAIR said Shalash has not worked for them for five years.
“This is a lie,” CAIR National’s account posted in response to a tweet identifying Shalash as a senior CAIR official. “This person has not worked with our CAIR-KY chapter in FIVE years. She has no role at our civil rights group. We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim hate. Racism is wrong, no matter the source or the target.”
Shalash’s profile on LinkedIn says she was on CAIR-Kentucky’s board of directors until November 2020.
CAIR: A not-so-civil civil rights group
CAIR, which busies itself with accusing Americans of “Islamophobia,” bills itself as a civil rights group of moderate Muslims but has been a longtime supporter of Hamas. As early as 1994, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad endorsed the terror group. In 2023, he cheered Hamas’ October 7th massacre of some 1,200 Israelis.
Awad and CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad both have ties to Hamas through the Islamic Association of Palestine. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR as a terror organization for its ties to Hamas’ parent network, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Plans to infiltrate Congress
In a speech at the East Plano Islamic Center last year, Awad bewailed the “deeply rooted” Islamophobia in the United States.
"There is Islamophobia [in the U.S.] that is so deeply rooted in the culture, in academia, in Hollywood, in the portrayal of Islam,” he said, according to MEMRI. “For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change.”
Awad unveiled the organization's plan to create an “army” of 50,000 academics, journalists, and lawyers to create pro-Islam narratives.
“If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history,” he said.
Within the decade, CAIR hopes to start carving out a major Muslim presence in the US government:
“We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress — in the US Congress.”
