NJ CAIR Statehouse Presser on Islamophobia and IHRA 3/17/2025 – Videos of Each Speaker
There was a tremensous line up of featured speakers in a press conference presented by NJ CAIR. NJ PBS, Montgomery News and your favorite, Fightbackbetter was on hand to provide coverage. This editor saw my LD 16 Senator Andrew Zwicker after the event. I introduced myself as a potential NJ Assembly candidate for 2025 – both LD 16 Assembly members, Democrats Mitchelle Drulis and Roy Frieman are listed as supporters of the repressive IHRA measure in the Assembly, I informed Asm Zwicker that I would consider withdrawing my candidacy if they pull off the bills and he state he would pass the information on. Additional details and transcripts of tome of these presentations are being developed for additional pulication. See below a separate report (to be added shortly) about the paricipation of Green Party candidates Stephen Zielinski and Lily Benavides in the audience of this event. Please help elevate this event by sending this information to your constituencies and also to media outlets as well as our NJ legislators, governor and NJ state level candidates for 2025.
Introductory Remarks
Opening prayer and remarks
NJ CAIR Dir. Selaedin Maksut
Imam Saffet Catovic — Operations Director of Justice for All
Assemblyman Alaa Abdelaziz (Legislative District 35)
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District)
Wassim Kanaan — Chair of the NJ Chapter of American Muslims for Palestine
Haliema Twam — Civic Engagement & Advocacy Manager at Palestinian American Community Center
Dr. Sadaf Jaffer — Former Assemblywoman of Legislative District 16
Dr. Raz Segal — Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Stockton University
Dr. Sahar Aziz — Director of the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights
