The article argues that Hamas and its U.S.-based support network have long sought to undermine peace agreements between Israel and Arab states, from the 1993 Oslo Accords to the 2020 Abraham Accords. It describes an October 2025 conference featuring Hamas-linked figures where speakers warned of a “second wave” of normalization and discussed playing a “required role” to stop it. Head of Terrorism Research Lara Burns, and Senior Research Fellows David Collins and Barry Jonas trace CAIR’s origins to the 1990s “Palestine Committee,” which, according to trial documents, was created to advance Hamas’s agenda while appearing neutral. They highlight that this network explicitly strategized to “derail” peace efforts and used deception to mask its opposition. The piece concludes by questioning whether CAIR’s contemporary anti-normalization advocacy reflects this longstanding Hamas-aligned agenda.
Fighting Peace
November 14, 2025
