Imraan Siddiqi, the son of Indian immigrants to the US, has been involved in civil rights most of his life -- from seeing racial inequality in the South to the post 9/11 era to the Muslim ban under the last administration. But he says it was the US support for Israel's ongoing war on Gaza that made him want to run for Congress. As executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the state of Washington, Siddiqi has been inundated with reports of anti-Muslim bias since Israel's war on Gaza began in October (he is taking a sabbatical from his position at CAIR to run for office). In addition, he was living in a district where the representative, Kim Schri
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