Antimuscan hatred affects the new high in the US: advocacy group | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Cair reports 8,658 complaints about discrimination in 2024, while the war in Gaza stirred Islamophobia.
Discrimination and attacks on Muslims and Arabs in the United States reached a new record of 2024 in the midst of the Israel-Gaza war, the advocacy group reported.
A report published on Tuesday by the US-Islamic Relations Council (Cair) said 8,658 complaints about incidents against Muslims and Anti-Arab last year were 7.4 percent increasing from year to year-year-old since the group began compiling data in 1996.
Complaints regarding employment discrimination were usually of 15.4 percent of the total number. Complaints regarding immigration and asylum made up 14.8 percent, 9.8 percent education and hate crimes 7.5 percent.
Proponents of the right have emphasized the increase in Islamophobia, anti-Arab bias and anti-Semitism since the Hamas attack in October 2023, Israel launched a devastating attack on Gaza.
“For the second year in a row, Gaza Gaze Genocide, supported in the United States, launched a wave of Islamophobia in the United States,” Cair said.
Israel denies charges of genocide and war crimes.
Last month, a man was found guilty of hate crime over a fatal stabbing of a six -year -old Palestinian American boy 18 months ago.
Other alarming incidents since the end of 2023 include attempting to drown by a three -year -old Palestinian American girl in Texas, a bit of Palestinian American, also in Texas, beating a Muslim man in New York and a shooting of two Israeli visitors, who was considered to be Palestine, in Florida.
University protest breakthrough
Cair also noticed the suppression of pro-Palestinian protests at university campuses.
Demonstrators have demanded the end of American support for months for months. Through the summer of 2024, classes were canceled, university administrators resigned, and student protesters were suspended and arrested.
Significant incidents include the violent arrests of the protesters at Columbia University and the Mafia attack on the Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump has asked for a step in action against the protest.
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student who served as a negotiator between the Pro-Palestinian protesters and the Columbia University in the New York administration, was arrested This week by immigration officers, despite being held by a green cardboard of permanent residence.
Trump wrote on social networks that Khalil was “the first arrest of many.”
“We know that there are more students in Columbia and other universities throughout the country who have dealt with pro-terrorist, anti-American, anti-American activities, and Trump’s administration will not tolerate it,” he added.
Cairo New York AFAF Director CEO has condemned the arrest as a “shocking escalation” that “sets a dangerous precedent and threatens the civil freedoms of all.”
