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☆ Opinion | Arab American Fury Toward Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday, at a hip Arab coffee shop in Dearborn, Mich., Nihad Awad, a co-founder and the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, told me that as a Palestinian American Muslim who voted for Joe Biden in 2020, he feels “betrayed bitterly” over the administration’s position on the war in Gaza. So he was in the Detroit area this week to support the campaign to get voters to choose “uncommitted” in Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday. But as our conversation progressed, it became clear to me that his objective is not simply to send President Biden a message about the war and make him shift his policy, as is the aim of many I spoke with in Michigan in the past few days. Awad wants more. He doesn’t only want Biden to be politically corrected; he wants him politically crushed.

Persons: Nihad Awad, Joe Biden, “, Biden, Awad, Dawud Walid, Jesus Organizations: Islamic Relations, Palestinian, Palestinian American Muslim, Democratic, CAIR’s Locations: Dearborn, Mich, Palestinian American, Gaza, Detroit, Michigan, CAIR’s Michigan

☆ Stuart Seldowitz gets plea deal in NYC hate crime case
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Zoe Sottile | Artemis Moshtaghian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A former National Security Council official has reached a plea deal on hate crime charges after going on racist, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rants against a food cart vendor in New York in November. Stuart Seldowitz, 64, pleaded not guilty in November to two counts of fourth-degree hate crime/stalking and one count of second-degree aggravated harassment, court records show. In another video, Seldowitz tells the vendor, “We’re going to put big signs here saying this guy believes in Hamas.”In another video, Seldowitz asks the man whether he’s familiar with Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, better known as the Mukhabarat. Mohamed Attia, of the Street Vendor Project, told CNN the vendor said he did not instigate the conversation with Seldowitz. His family’s landlord was charged in what police are calling a hate crime and has pleaded not guilty to charges including murder.

Persons: CNN —, Stuart Seldowitz, Seldowitz, ”, Afaf Nasher, We’re, “ Mukhabarat, ” Seldowitz, Barack Obama’s, hasn’t, Mohamed Attia Organizations: CNN, National Security Council, Manhattan, Attorney’s Office, Islamic Relations, CAIR’s, ” CNN, Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, National Security Council South, Directorate, Gotham Government Relations, New, CAIR Locations: New York, York, Egypt, New York City, Israel, Chicago, Vermont

☆ Students are lawyering up in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Hafez, who CNN has reached out to for comment, is now suing Accuracy in Media for defamation and emotional distress, and the violation of his civil rights. Hafez is among the politically and ethnically diverse students across the country who are filing lawsuits in the wake of October 7. Some are invoking the Civil Rights Act, claiming their schools aren’t protecting them from religious discrimination. “We believe that a number of universities are violating Title VI in this moment. “We have had a massive and unprecedented spike since October 7.”The legal standard for Title VI cases is high, Cron said.

Persons: Yusuf Hafez, “ Columbia’s, ” Hafez, Hafez, Minouche Shafik, “, ” John Beckman, ” Beckman, Beckman, Justin Sadowsky, ” Sadowsky, Sadowsky, Dylan Saba, State University of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues, DeSantis, ”, Brittany Wise, ” Adam Steinbaugh, ” Steinbaugh, you’re, Matthew Cron, Donald Trump, ” Saba, Kenneth Marcus, Wellesley, ” “ Wellesley, UPenn, Magill, “ We’ve, Marcus, George W, Bush, Cron, ” Cron, Yusuf Hafez’s, SWATTING, ” – CNN’s Matt Egan, Celina Tebor Organizations: New, New York CNN — Columbia University, Media, CNN, Civil, Columbia, Columbia University, New York University, Jewish, gaslighting, NYU, New York police, Islamic, Civil Rights, Department of Education, Palestine, American Civil Liberties Union, Palestine Legal, University of Florida, UF, Justice, State University of Florida, ACLU, ” CNN, State University System of, University of Florida’s, “, Governors, Foundation, Rights, Florida, DOE, of Education Office, Legal, University of Illinois Chicago, UIC, Brandeis Center, University of Pennsylvania, ”, University, Trump, Ivy League, Private, AIM, U.S . Locations: New York, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Florida, State University System of Florida, Colorado, “, Penn, Chicago

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