What started with one congressman’s post has become a coordinated campaign. A senator compared a Ramadan iftar to 9/11. A 40-member caucus is pushing legislation to ban Islamic practice. Nearly half of Republican members of Congress have posted negatively about Muslims. And the speaker of the House says the threat of Shari’a law is “what animates this.”
Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles posted that Muslims “don’t belong in American society” and that “pluralism is a lie.” He is pushing legislation to ban immigration from Muslim-majority countries. Democratic lawmakers called for consequences. Republican leadership stayed silent.
Rep. Sean Casten introduced the Ceasefire Compliance Act of 2026 — a bill that would prohibit the use of US-origin weapons in Gaza and the West Bank unless Israel meets a defined set of compliance conditions verified by the State Department.
In a Tucker Carlson interview, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all the biblical territory described in Genesis — a comment that triggered condemnations from fourteen Arab and Muslim nations, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry, and the OIC, while the White House remained silent.
Contracting records reviewed by the Guardian reveal the Trump administration’s Board of Peace is planning a 5,000-person military installation covering more than 350 acres in southern Gaza — complete with armored watchtowers, bunkers, and a firing range — on land whose ownership is unclear and where 1.9 million displaced Palestinians now live.
United Voices condemns Rep. Randy Fine’s dehumanizing comments about Muslims and calls on House leadership to take action to stop anti-Muslim hate from being normalized in Congress.
USAID staff filed an internal cable in early 2024 describing northern Gaza as an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ with bones in the streets and catastrophic food shortages — then US Ambassador Jack Lew and his deputy blocked the cable’s circulation inside government, claiming it lacked balance.

The DNC’s Own Secret Report Says Gaza Cost Harris the Election. They’ve Been Hiding It.
A confidential Democratic National Committee analysis concluded that the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza war was a ‘net-negative’ for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign — and party leadership has kept the findings secret because of how politically damaging they are.