{"id":60512,"date":"2023-10-16T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=60512"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:25:57","slug":"is-the-israel-palestine-war-deepening-u-s-inter-ethnic-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=60512","title":{"rendered":"Is the Israel-Palestine War Deepening U.S. Inter-Ethnic Hate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_54 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_54\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span><a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/author\/selen-ozturk\/\">Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_55 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_55\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2023-10-16T12:59:39-07:00\">Oct 16, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_56 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_56\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>As the bloody war between Israel and Palestine escalates, so does antisemitic and Islamophobic U.S. hate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_57 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_57\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb td-animation-stack-type0-2\" title=\"Israel Palestine\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-16-at-1.04.13-PM-e1697486609926.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1276\" height=\"850\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_58 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_58\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>As the bloody war between Israel and Palestine escalates, so does antisemitic and Islamophobic U.S. hate.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday, Oct. 13 Ethnic Media Services\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/media-briefings\/deepening-the-fault-lines-israel-hamas-conflict\/\">briefing<\/a>, experts discussed the conflict\u2019s roots, what it means for Jewish and Muslim U.S. communities confronting increased hate, and how inter-ethnic U.S. violence is deepening in response to the international violence.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hate crimes and rising conflict<\/h2>\n<p>Explaining the war\u2019s background, Jamal Dajani \u2014 Palestinian-American journalist, co-founder of Arab Talk Radio, and former member of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission \u2014 said \u201cWhat\u2019s happening now is not happening in a vacuum \u2026 For the past 75 years, Palestinians have not seen any advancement in negotiations, they have not realized their aspirations, and they are living under apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been classified an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and its own human rights organization, B\u2019Tselem.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uPoPkIcKrls\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget2\" title=\"Jamal Dajani on Israel-Hamas Conflict\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uPoPkIcKrls?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Peabody Award-winning journalist and host of Arab Talk Radio Jamal Dajani shares his perspective on the roots of the current conflict between Israel and Hamas and how white supremacists in the US may seek to use the violence in the Middle East to stoke further antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Domestically, the U.S. has witnessed a rise in white supremacy, antisemitism and Islamophobia since the Trump administration, he continued, \u201cand white supremacists are opportunists. They can take advantage of any international event, be it between Russians and Ukrainians or Palestinians and Israelis, to foment their hatred. Across the board, most of the hate crimes here \u2014 attacks on mosques, attacks on synagogues \u2014 are perpetrated by white supremacists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to Palestinians\u2019 \u201caspiration for freedom and independence,\u201d he continued, \u201cthey have a lot of Jewish supporters, like from Jewish Voice for Peace \u2026 This is not a religious conflict. It is not an ethnic conflict \u2026 This is a territorial conflict. It\u2019s a colonial conflict. If you have any ethnic group \u2014 whether Jewish, or from Afghanistan or China \u2014 drive you out of your home to refugee camps, Palestinians will see them as invaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The war\u2019s impact on U.S. hate crimes<\/h2>\n<p>Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and criminal justice Professor Emeritus at CSU San Bernardino, said the U.S. has seen an increase in hate crimes over recent years, hitting a record reported number of 10,840 in 2021 with a population representation of 91.1% per the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/hatecrimes\/hate-crime-statistics\">FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This record was surpassed again with the FBI\u2019s release of 2022 statistics on Monday. Last year saw a whopping\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.ucr.cjis.gov\/LATEST\/webapp\/#\/pages\/explorer\/crime\/hate-crime\">11,643<\/a>\u00a0reported hate crimes with a slightly raised population representation of 91.7%. Over 56% of these crimes were racially or ethnically motivated, while over 17% were religiously motivated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tRmjMd7nOvw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget4\" title=\"Anti-Semitism Undermines Efforts to Create Free and Autonomous Palestinian State\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRmjMd7nOvw?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Brian Levin, Esq. \u2014 Founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at California State University, San Bernardino \u2014 notes that antisemitic behavior is detrimental to efforts for Palestinian statehood.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Comparing this spike to past ones \u2014 2020 during the election and George Floyd protests, 2001 after 9\/11 \u2014 Levin made two points: \u201cHate crimes are not only spiking, but are more elongated in in their spikes,\u201d and \u201cThere is massive underreporting. The most recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nij.ojp.gov\/topics\/articles\/using-research-improve-hate-crime-reporting-and-identification\">Bureau of Justice Statistics<\/a>\u00a0studies show that a bare minimum of overall hate crimes are reported by victims \u2026 and certain populations, like immigrants or foreign-language communities, are far less likely to report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While white supremacists are very often involved in these attacks, he added \u201cNot everybody who attacks Jews are white supremacists. We have different\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/ovc_archives\/reports\/responding\/files\/sessionC.pdf\">types<\/a>\u00a0of offenders: thrill offenders with shallow prejudices, acting on stereotypes; defensive or reactive offenders; mentally ill offenders; and mission offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the current war \u201cis indeed a political dispute,\u201d said Levin, \u201cin article seven of Hamas\u2019 charter, they say the Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims kill the Jews. We\u2019ve also had similar statements by Hezbollah and others \u2026 Jews not distinguished by nationality.\u201d Thus, he continued, we can expect this religious violence to be reflected in U.S. attacks.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The conflict not seen in media<\/h2>\n<p>Estee Chandler \u2014 organizer of Jewish Voice for Peace, Los Angeles chapter \u2014 said \u201cGaza has been under nearly 16 years of Israeli military blockade and the war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago with occupation and systemic apartheid \u2026 and though much of the media is reporting that Israel has now left Gaza, that\u2019s not true. They just moved their defenses to the perimeter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are seeing now is a mass expulsion,\u201d she continued, \u201cwhere half of the over two million people in Gaza have been asked to leave their homes \u2026 because Israel says that they will bomb them. They\u2019ve given over a million people 24 hours to try to move amidst all the bombing and rubble and roads that have already been destroyed \u2026 and the mainstream media isn\u2019t reporting on these incidences \u2026 there is much misinformation that drives this.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RunWsN-NLo0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget6\" title=\"How is the Israel-Palestine Conflict Affecting Relationships Between Ethnic Groups Here in the U.S.?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RunWsN-NLo0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Estee Chandler \u2014 Jewish Voice for Peace, Los Angeles Chapter Organizer \u2014 discusses the proliferation of hate-speech and attempts to silence pro-Palestinian voices in the wake of escalating violence between Israel and Palestine.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nor is the mainstream media reporting on the effect in U.S. communities, Chandler added \u2014 and particularly on college campuses. \u201cLocally on the UCLA campus, we\u2019re seeing that members of Students for Justice in Palestine are being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/10\/14\/1205809697\/israel-gaza-college-campus-protests-statements\">doxxed<\/a>\u00a0on social media. Their ability to organize and secure spaces to do teach-ins has been suppressed,\u201d and this is seen on campuses nationwide, she said \u2014 for example, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/10\/11\/student-groups-withdraw-israel-statement\/\">Harvard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tensions are also fueling increasing violence beyond college campuses. Last Saturday, a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy in Chicago was fatally stabbed by his landlord \u2014 who also attacked his mother \u2014 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e\">war-motivated<\/a>\u00a0grounds that the family was Muslim.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Addressing fault lines in U.S. Palestinian support<\/h2>\n<p>Fatin Jarara \u2014 a Palestinian community organizer working with Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition for 20 years \u2014 said the very framing used for the briefing, \u201cthe \u2018Israel versus Hamas conflict,\u2019 is problematic to me, because this implies that this is an issue between a whole nation of people and a militant group, when it\u2019s not just that. This is an issue of occupation imposed on indigenous people \u2026 In one week of bombardment on Gaza, more have been killed than in a year of bombardment on Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing U.S. responses, she said the push for support of Israel \u201cis already very high. The talking is done for you,\u201d often without verification, she said, offering as example President Biden\u2019s claim of having seen photos of babies decapitated by Hamas; the photos never surfaced and the White House later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/biden-deliver-remarks-roundtable-jewish-community-leaders-rcna119865\">walked back<\/a>\u00a0this claim.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"i5j7yMnKsqo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget8\" title=\"Palestinians Are in Conflict with the Israeli State, Not Judaism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5j7yMnKsqo?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-11=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fatin Jarara, Al-Awda NY: Palestine Return Coalition, says conflation of the Israeli state with Judaism inaccurately casts the territorial conflict between Israel and Palestine as a religious dispute.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Conversely, Jarara said, as Palestinians, \u201cwe have footage after footage; I grew up on it my entire life \u2026 and there is a very hostile environment to it in the United States,\u201d as many sympathizers fear showing support at all. For example, \u201cyesterday at Brooklyn College, a New York City councilwoman went to the Palestine rally with a concealed carry gun \u2026 she thought that she could intimidate the youth scot-free, but she was arrested and charged this morning,\u201d as it was illegal under state law to possess a gun at a protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Palestinians, we see all lives as worthy of living a dignified life,\u201d she concluded. Those in the U.S. who support the Palestinian cause \u201cdon\u2019t want to see violence\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t want to see people losing their lives,\u201d but \u201cwant to see my people live a dignified life too. They want to see my people liberated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BySelen Ozturk Oct 16, 2023 As&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60513,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60512\/revisions\/60513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}