Zainab Chaudry

[9][10][11] Following the 2023 Israel–Hamas war Chaudry had posted several comments on her private social media accounts in which she compared Israel to Nazis, called into question the claim that babies had been murdered in the October 7 Hamas-led attack, criticized Israel's response to the October 7 attack, and condemned the disproportionate killing of innocent Gazan civilians.

[12] Chaudry refused to retract or apologize for these comments, stating her posts were taken out of context and her First Amendment rights were infringed upon.

[13][14][15] During the 2024 legislative session, state delegates Dalya Attar, Samuel I. Rosenberg, and Joe Vogel introduced legislation to remove Chaudry and specifically individuals from the Muslim civil rights group, CAIR, from the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention and replace her with "two members of the Muslim community".

[19][20] The bill was signed into law by Governor Wes Moore and Chaudry, along with all of its other members, were removed from the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention after it went into effect on June 1, 2024.

[21] Chaudry did not apply to be reappointed to the hate crime commission—whose new members were appointed by Attorney General Anthony Brown on July 31, 2024—saying that she believed the commission's communications policy would be "exploited to suppress advocacy for Palestinian human rights".