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CAIR Asks L.A. Mayor To ‘Retract’ Support For Jerusalem Embassy, Demands Apology

Jeffrey Cawood

Muslim and Jewish activist groups are demanding an apology from Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti over recent comments backing a Jerusalem-based U.S. Embassy in Israel.

A coalition led by the L.A. chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) penned a letter to Garcetti last week requesting he “retract” his support for relocating operations from Tel Aviv, where the embassy had been from 1966 until May 2018.

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