CAIR San Francisco Bay Area Executive Director Zahra Billoo said students are concerned their advocacy for human rights is being silenced. "People are reporting that if they are Palestinian or pro-Palestine, they're facing targeting or repression at school," she told San José Spotlight. "That's left the students feeling as though they don't have a space to have conversations about who they are and what they feel."
When the Muslim Student Association at Wilcox High School in the district wanted to invite Palestinian community leader Samir Laymoun to speak, Billoo said administrators asked them to notify the Jewish Culture Club - and asked Laymoun not to mention Gaza. "That itself raised a lot of red flags," Billoo said. "The school's heavy handedness in determining who students could invite as a guest speaker and then strictly limiting what the speaker could say."
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