Karen Bass
Role at the time: Mayor of Los Angeles
Condemned
Statement summary
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass condemned Islamophobia in response to coverage of Mosab Hassan Yousef's remarks at the Jewish American Summit.
“Islamophobia has no place in Los Angeles.”
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Reporting on responses to Mosab Hassan Yousef's remarks at the Jewish American Summit, including a statement attributed to the Jewish Partnership for Los Angeles.
Why we used this label
Bass explicitly rejected Islamophobia in a statement connected by the reporting to the summit controversy.