Updated 2023-12-01
Anti-Palestinian Racism: A resource We offer this resource and hope it will be of use in recognizing a pervasive and mostly unnamed form of racism in the West. You can read it on the AEP site here. The Anti-Empire Project https://justinpodur.substack.com/p/10295968_anti-palestinian-racism
2023-11-28 “Atmosphere of Hate”: AFSC Leader & Palestinian Vermonter on Shooting of 3 College Students We get an update on the three university students of Palestinian descent who were shot Saturday in Burlington, Vermont. Two were wearing keffiyehs and speaking Arabic at the time of the attack. Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ahmad are now recovering, though Hisham Awartani, who was shot in the spine, has reportedly lost feeling in the lower part of his body. The FBI is reportedly investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime. “This atmosphere of hate” starts “from the federal level,” declares Wafic Faour of the organization Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, who joins us to discuss the recent history of Vermont’s suppression of pro-Palestinian sentiment. “If you talk about Palestinian rights, you’re going to be called ‘terrorist,’” says Faour, yet although “the attacker is a white supremacist, … we don’t call it as is.” We also speak to Joyce Ajlouny, former director of the Ramallah Friends School in the occupied West Bank, where the three victims were students together. She reads poems they wrote in sixth grade and notes that over the course of the decadeslong occupation, “Palestinians of all faiths … have not been offered the humanity and dignity that they deserve.” https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/28/vermont_palestinian_students_shooting_wafic_faour
2023-11-28 Uncle of Palestinian shot in VT: ‘I feel a sense of shame’ believing U.S. ‘would be safer for him’ Three Palestinian college students shot in Vermont this weekend are facing a future forever changed by what many are calling a hate crime. Rich Price, the uncle of worst-injured Hisham Awartani, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss Hisham’s condition, why he thought his nephew would be safer in New England than the West Bank and the rise in both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism on college campuses. “As an uncle, I feel a sense of shame, Andrea, along with other members of my family, really encouraging him to pursue his studies here in the United States, believing in part that it would be safer for him,” says Price. On coverage of his nephew, Price adds, “We’re excited to have positive representation of Palestinian young men. A representation that is not often shown in this country and these three young men are incredible.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_VHtm7JTu4
2023-11-28 Suspect arrested in shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont oe Biden has expressed horror at the shooting of three Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont and, amid heightened tensions with the crisis in Israel and Gaza reverberating in the US, reiterated on Monday that “there is no place for violence or hate in America”.
The victims – Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmed, all 20 years old – are undergraduate students at Brown University, Haverford College and Trinity College, respectively, and were on their way to Awartani’s grandmother’s house for a Thanksgiving dinner when a white man with a handgun fired on them.
A suspect was arrested on Sunday after the shootings the night before that wounded the men, police said, adding that contrary to media reports the shooter did not speak before firing. Jason J Eaton, 48, was arrested on Sunday afternoon near where the men were shot, the Burlington police department announced. They said he lives in an apartment close to the scene, a search of which revealed evidence that gave investigators “probable cause to believe that Mr Eaton perpetrated the shooting”, police said. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-of-three-palestinian-students-in-vermont/ar-AA1kAUOq
2023-11-27 Bernie Sanders discusses Vermont shooting, Israel-Hamas war The man accused of shooting three Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder Monday. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders joins “America Decides” to discuss the rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia amid the Israel-Hamas war, and the funding battle on Capitol Hill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsL_nyZobU
2023-11-27 See how even in the USA Palestinian being target! Three Palestinian college students Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid were shot in Burlington, Vermont for allegedly wearing the keffiyeh and speaking Arabic! https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=659430489705510&set=a.101777288804169
2022-10-25 Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism Nakba denialism – that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948 – has long been a feature of US discourse on Palestine. Through a content analysis of Leon Uris’ 1958 novel, Exodus, I argue that Nakba denialism rests on three anti-Arab racist tropes. The first trope presents Palestinian Arabs as lacking religious attachment to Palestine, the second trope claims they lack modern feelings of national identity, and the third trope claims they are easily induced to commit acts of violence by their ruthless leaders. Through the deployment of these tropes, the Exodus narrative popularized key elements of Nakba denialism in US discourse by blaming the victims of settler colonial violence for the expulsions they faced. More broadly, this article shows how the imbrication of race and settler colonialism functions to epistemologically erase the very acts of settler colonial violence that produce racialized Others. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08969205221132878
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