I don't think Rashida is especially religious. But she's Palestinian, and this country suffers from very specific anti-Palestinian racism, even worse than general ant-Arab racism. I remember my mother, who was in most ways a great progressive and supported civil rights (she died before Black Lives Matter, but on earlier bouts of civil ri…
I don't think Rashida is especially religious. But she's Palestinian, and this country suffers from very specific anti-Palestinian racism, even worse than general ant-Arab racism. I remember my mother, who was in most ways a great progressive and supported civil rights (she died before Black Lives Matter, but on earlier bouts of civil rights issues she was great), but she said pretty horrific racist stuff about Palestinians.
Forgive me for bad-mouthing my mother in public. The point is that she was mostly very decent, but thought nothing of showing extreme anti-Palestinian bias.
That is the success of this settler-colonial project. I'm 66 and remember hearing when I was a kid about the "land with no people for a people with no land" and Arabs just hate Jews because ….fill in the blank… . It would be interesting to ask one of those armed protestors of having to wear a mask in public, what they might think if some foreign country came and took their land to give to MIGRANTS no less! Would they just go quietly to a refugee camp (reservation)? To live there for generations while the reservation land was taken away bit by bit?
I don't think Rashida is especially religious. But she's Palestinian, and this country suffers from very specific anti-Palestinian racism, even worse than general ant-Arab racism. I remember my mother, who was in most ways a great progressive and supported civil rights (she died before Black Lives Matter, but on earlier bouts of civil rights issues she was great), but she said pretty horrific racist stuff about Palestinians.
Forgive me for bad-mouthing my mother in public. The point is that she was mostly very decent, but thought nothing of showing extreme anti-Palestinian bias.
That is the success of this settler-colonial project. I'm 66 and remember hearing when I was a kid about the "land with no people for a people with no land" and Arabs just hate Jews because ….fill in the blank… . It would be interesting to ask one of those armed protestors of having to wear a mask in public, what they might think if some foreign country came and took their land to give to MIGRANTS no less! Would they just go quietly to a refugee camp (reservation)? To live there for generations while the reservation land was taken away bit by bit?