Executive Director of CAIR Los Angeles, Ayloush has made incendiary comments about Israel, such as stating that Israel does not have the right to defend itself. He metaphorically likened Israeli self-defense to Nazi Germany’s atrocities during World War II. Speaking of Israel during a sermon on December 1, 2023 at a CAIR Los Angeles meeting, Ayloush stated “Imagine we tell Nazi Germany: ‘You have the right to defend yourself against French resistance, or Polish resistance, or Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto.’ People would laugh at you if you said that.”