The demonization of pro-Palestinian voices has risen to a fever pitch, led by politicians from the president to unabashed white supremacists derisively referring to student encampments as "little Gaza." This rhetoric will foment Islamophobia & antisemitism:
“I am deeply troubled by your opening statement and continued assault on innocent lives, and I ask that this administration please stop playing politics with the lives of the children before this committee”
@Mediaite
@tommyxtopher
@RashidaTlaib
@AOC
"Simply, China has been successful in denying the world the kind of horrific imagery that would or could ordinarily spark a global movement of opposition." via
@cjwerleman
"According to statistics compiled by the Department of State, more than 40,000 visa applications were denied under the ban. Apart from denying entry for people outside the US, the policy had a serious effect on American Muslims..."
@thenyic
@JihanAbdalla
"We have been smeared by political rhetoric and murdered in violent hate crimes. We have been separated from our families and have watched our children caged. But, we will not be broken. We will not be silenced."
@USATODAY
@EvaLongoria
@hrw
@amnesty
"Inspired by
#Jewish
groups that cast criticism of
#Israel
as antisemitism,
#Hindu
American organizations are advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that puts India beyond reproach."
"By tying Islam to terrorism, neocons would gain political cover for their imperialistic ambitions in the Middle East, and Zionists would benefit from garnering Western sympathies for their struggle against Palestinian 'terrorism'"
@cjwerleman
#Islamophobia
"If you have to kill that many people to feel safe, that means you're never going to feel safe. Colonialism is not only brutal to the colonized, but also to the soul of the colonizer." -
@iyad_elbaghdadi
"Rutgers University faculty condemn Israel’s military assault against the Palestinian people across all Palestinian geographies. We join and welcome the endorsement of all colleagues committed to combatting racism, colonialism, and settler colonialism."
Federal judge dismissed lawsuit the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) brought against Rutgers University Associate Professor Audrey Truschke...HAF’s claims centered around 2021 Twitter posts in which she criticized HAF and Hindu nationalism
@AudreyTruschke
‘
#Hindutva
pop’: The singers producing
#anti
-Muslim music in
#India
"
#India
witnessed religious violence in...
#Hindu
festivals when right-wing groups held marches in mainly Muslim areas and played loud music laced with Islamophobic lyrics outside mosques."
According to a high-ranking former IDF officer, Israel’s “reckless conduct” can be attributed to "an absolute assumption that the U.S. will continue to arm and finance [Israel’s military operations].” -
@4noura
& Josh Paul in
@just_security
"India is viewed as the world’s largest democracy, and Kashmir is home to 4 million Muslims.Thus it has been easy for India to sell the West that it, too,is ...against radical Islam. It’s the same con job Assad has used in Syria, and [Israel in Palestine]."
"A bulldozer celebrating far-right Hindu nationalist violence against Muslims drove through Edison last month at an Indian Independence Day parade...[Many NJ politicians] claim to have been unaware of the bulldozer’s appalling symbolism"
@AudreyTruschke
"With China grotesquely and preposterously marketing these illegally removed body parts as “Halal organs,” despite the fact there’s no such thing in Islamic ruling or practice."
via
@cjwerleman
Academic freedom is under threat when it comes to Palestine-Israel discussions. Our new report defends the right to education and free speech in universities.
"...the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (
#USCIRF
), an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, recommended
#India
be placed on a religious freedom blacklist..."
@AudreyTruschke
@raqib_naik
@IAMCouncil
“Governors, in particular, who appoint corrections commissioners, should be held accountable for the treatment of Muslims in the prisons they run.”
Via
@vgullap
at
@theappeal
|
@Justice_Collab
A recent report by Rutgers University's Center for Security, Race, and Rights highlights how claims of antisemitism stemming from Islamophobia are being used to silence discourse about Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians.
Join us at the "HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION’S LAWSUIT DISMISSAL: A VICTORY FOR FIRST AMENDMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS" panel on Jan. 4 at 12pm
@AudreyTruschke
Register at
Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse examines how Islamophobia works to fuel and sustain spurious allegations of antisemitism used by Zionists to silence critics of Israeli ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
Sure, the US cares about human rights — when it benefits us
“President Biden’s red-carpet treatment of India’s Prime Minister Narendra
#Modi
is another nail in the coffin of U.S. human rights policy”
@IAMCouncil
“My deaf friends & I felt depressed because we didn’t have any way to help other deaf people to access Islam.” That changed last year when Mr. Surya teamed up with a local Islamic organization to produce sign-language videos, translating all 114 surahs.
"The American University of Beirut Medical Center warned that if it did not receive a shipment of diesel fuel by Monday to keep its generators running, forty adult patients and fifteen children living on respirators will die immediately"
@QasimRashid
We condemn the vandalism
@cilru
, Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University. The Islamophobic attacks and violence will continue until our political leaders step up and unequivocally denounce all attempts to dehumanize Muslims.
"As politicians continued their efforts to blame the rapid spread of the virus in the country on
#Muslims
, pro-government media organisations ran shows and published reports that support this unfounded accusation"
@omarsuleiman504
@AJEnglish
#coronavirus
"A far-right, anti-Muslim Facebook group modified the above sign, changing it from the First Assembly for God to 'Advancement of Islamic Agenda America, adding the words, 'AMERICA WE WILL KILL YOU ALL AND NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT'"
@cjwerleman
Take note: Islamphobia is cut from the same cloth as antisemitism. White nationalists who claim to care about antisemitism are the same ones who will quickly vilify Muslims.
We call on
@USC
to immediately restore valedictorian Asna Tabassum's speech and treat all students fairly and justly, starting with Asna. We look forward to USC’S swift response.
"Islamophobia is the presumption that Islam is inherently violent, alien, and unassimilable... and the belief that expressions of Muslim identity are correlative with propensity for terrorism"
@KhaledBeydoun
@DetroitMercyLaw
@CAIRNational
@splcenter
“Nothing happens by accident,” said a source inside the Israeli military. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed"
'Proud and historic': Two hijab-wearing women sworn in as judges in NJ
"For her oath, she used a vintage Quran that had been handwritten by her great-grandmother in the 1880s."
@YMPtweet
"Imagine the guy who just lost his job: he can’t get work, and finds himself in a queue with people he perceives as ‘migrants’. It doesn’t take much for him to think that ‘the system is structured against people like me.."
@cjwerleman
#covid19
#coronavirus
"Imagine having to go to work every day knowing that, because of your religion, the people you have to sit across the table from and work with hate you, fear you and question your commitment and loyalty."
@AymanM
#Islamophobia
#Muslims
“Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) offers the expertise, moral commitment, and tenacity needed to continue Arabs’ demonstrated desire for and right to human rights, democracy, and social justice.”
@DAWNmenaorg
@rafiazakaria
@sarahleah1
"Omar’s win, though, is far from the only historic victory we’ve seen this primary season. It seems almost every primary day another person from a community Trump has demonized or even discriminated against wins a Democratic nomination."
@DeanObeidallah
2023 marks a grave year for Palestinian rights, facing unprecedented threats. Our report lays bare the urgent need for global attention and action.
#PalestinianRights
#HumanRights
Read CSRR faculty affiliate Audrey Truschke's "The Hindu Right in the United States" "Hindu Right groups in America attempt to control educational materials, influence policymakers, defend caste privilege, and whitewash Hindutva violence."
Antisemitism, like Islamophobia, is a real danger and needs to be unequivocally denounced by all political leaders. But to equate it with anti-Zionism is in bad faith and works to further white nationalist agendas.
Don't Miss Out: Rutgers Lecture on Law & Palestine with
@4Noura
!
Dive into a thought-provoking discussion on "Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine" and unravel the complex interplay of law and politics in the fight for freedom.
RSVP:
Read
#CSRR
faculty affiliate
@AudreyTruschke
's "The
#Hindu
Right in the United States" "Hindu Right groups in America attempt to control educational materials, influence policymakers, defend caste privilege,and whitewash
#Hindutva
violence"
@KhaledBeydoun
Clinic Wins Dismissal of Libel Suit Against Rutgers University Professor
A federal judge yesterday dismissed in full a defamation and conspiracy lawsuit
#Hindu
American Foundation (“HAF”)..against Rutgers University Associate Professor...
@AudreyTruschke
"
The unprecedented surveillance of fusion centers enforces “community-led policing," a euphemism for CIA-style tactics used against domestic population. NJ's fusion center, the Regional Operations Intelligence Center exemplifies this problematic trend.
#SunshineWeek
#transparency
Join us March 6 w
@hebagowayed
for “
#Race
,
#Security
, and Empire” lecture series - “human capital, typically examined as the skills
#immigrants
bring with
them that shape their potential, is actually created transformed, or destroyed by receiving states’ incorporation policies”
Obama draws ire of Indian officials with call to protect Muslim rights
"Members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party accused the former U.S. president of hypocrisy, saying he had bombed Muslim countries while in office"
@indianmuslim47
Read "
#American
#Muslim
women don't need you to save them from
#Islam
. They need your respect." by
@DMogahed
"The survey shows that the most salient stereotype about Americans of Islamic faith... is that Muslims “have outdated views of
#women
."
@muslimgirl
Today's
#CSRR
event is POSTPONED until March 6! Join us in a few weeks for "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" with
@hebagowayed
in the next lecture of our "
#Race
,
#Security
, and Empire" series
"The US recognizes anti-Semitism for the poison it is... But the religiously inspired Islamophobia I grew up with continues to shape Washington’s foreign policy." via
@C_Stroop
"Adding a citizenship question to the
#2020Census
is likely to lead to an undercount of the population. If the Roberts Supreme Court allows this, it will be on the nativist side of history in a nation of immigrants."
@ProfCiara
@BrennanCenter
"...over 1,300
#Palestinians
, a majority of whom are children, have been displaced by the demolitions tallied by the U.N., which counts each permanent closure or destruction of a residential or commercial property..."
@austinahlman
@theIMEU
@EyeonPalestine
"...Ghafari continues to raise her voice for the people of her homeland and uses her radio channel and humanitarian foundation -- the Assistance and Promotion of
#Afghan
Women organization -- to advocate for women's rights."
@Zarifa_Ghafari
@GenevaSummit
"
#ArabAmericans
across Chicagoland experience discrimination and inequities in all areas of life...report says the findings underscore the need for public and private sectors to create a new racial category, Middle Eastern/North African (MENA)"
@SAssadNews
In 1979, Benjamin Netanyahu and his father Benzion convened a conference in Jerusalem to discuss “international terrorism,” forming the Jonathan Institute in memory of their son and brother Jonathan, killed in the Entebbe raid.
"When he tried to board a flight to Pakistan to visit his unwell mother, he was told...he would not be allowed to board the flight. When he called the FBI, they told him he had been placed on a no-fly list until he agreed to work with them."
#Islamophobia
Read "
#American
#Muslim
women don't need you to save them from
#Islam
. They need your respect." by Dalia Mogahed "The survey shows that the most salient stereotype about Americans of Islamic faith...is that Muslims “have outdated views of
#women
."
@DMogahed
"Virtually all of the major western media outlets have intentionally or inadvertently peddled hate, disseminated incitement to genocide, dehumanising narratives, justifications for war crimes, and Israeli propaganda and disinformation." -
@faisalkutty
Joe Biden's closed-door meeting with a select group of US Muslim leaders with pro-Israel ties will not placate community members outraged by his brazen support for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
"More than anything, the Good (Orthodox) Muslim-Bad (Black) Muslim paradigm reveals the media’s seemingly willful ignorance of the longstanding diversity of Islamic practices within black America..."
@schanmalik
“Islamophobia levels in Europe a concern despite acquittal, Muslim academic warns
In a column for MEE, Farid Hafez accuses Austrian intelligence of using ‘conspiracy theories’ to target Muslims”
@ferithafez
... but American law and custom...have stood in Trump’s way, at least to some degree. His solution, increasingly, is simply to leave positions vacant, filling them with “acting” Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers.
Via
@PaulHRosenberg
at
@Salon
Join us at a virtual lecture featuring Professor Farid Hafez on
#Islamophobia
in
#Europe
on Dec. 7! "Islamophobia is on the rise at an alarming speed in Europe, a continent with tens of millions of Muslim citizens."
@ferithafez
Register here: