xenophobia

The Boston bombing and immigration

by News Sources 04.27.2013

Andrew Rosenthal writes: Rep. Steve King, Republican of Iowa has … said that “[in light of the Boston bombings] we need to take a look at the big picture” before proceeding with immigration reform. So, let’s look at the big picture. The slain older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had a green card, while the surviving younger [...]

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No human being is illegal

by Paul Woodward 03.26.2013

As others have said: judge a state’s respect for human rights by the way it treats its prisoners. In what kind of country would people, convicted of no crime, be put into solitary confinement because they are mentally ill, or gay, or Muslim? The United States — a country that dehumanizes many foreigners by branding [...]

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Liberal racial hypocrisy

by News Sources 02.24.2013

Falguni A. Sheth writes: Since the reelection of President Obama, liberals have made some bold admissions. Commentators like Touré Neblett of MSNBC’s The Cycle have enthusiastically and repeatedly defended the president’s authority to launch drones against anyone, including American citizens, if he suspects that they are “trying to kill us.” At no point in his [...]

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How do you define American?

by News Sources 12.15.2011
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When Israel’s guns go silent, its demons roar

by News Sources 12.11.2011

Gideon Levy writes: This fall a culture war, no less, broke out in Israel, and it is being waged on many more, and deeper, fronts than are apparent. It is not only the government, as important as that is, that hangs in the balance, but also the very character of the state. Our way of [...]

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Unholy alliance: Israel’s right and Europe’s anti-Semites

by News Sources 11.06.2011

Adar Primor writes: Marine Le Pen hit the jackpot. She invited about 100 diplomats to a luncheon last week during a visit to UN Headquarters in New York. Four accepted: There were the envoys from Trinidad and Tobago, Armenia and Uruguay, who obviously are of no concern to her at all. But the entrance of [...]

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Patriotic American Muslims viewed with suspicion by many fellow citizens

by Paul Woodward 08.02.2011

Which religious group of Americans has the most positive view of their fellow American Muslims? American Jews. Which religious group of Americans has the greatest appreciation for religious pluralism in America? American Muslims. American Muslims and American Jews have almost exactly the same level of support — about 80% — for a two-state solution to [...]

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The rise of the right

by News Sources 07.27.2011
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The Anders Behring Breivik interview

by Paul Woodward 07.26.2011

Anders Behring Breivik’s attorney, Geir Lippestad, says his client appears to be insane. Whether this is what Lippestad actually believes or whether he is simply laying the groundwork for an insanity defense, is unclear. But the idea that only a madman could do what Breivik did, is an idea with dangerous and popular appeal. We [...]

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The Greek protests are not just about the economic crisis

by News Sources 06.21.2011

Aditya Chakraborrty writes: A sunny Saturday afternoon in central Athens, and Christos Roubanis is sitting outside having a beer, while telling me about the death threats he’s received. We’re in Victoria Square, one of the most racially mixed areas in the capital. The nearby payphones have queues of Bangladeshis waiting outside, and after every few [...]

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How Roger Ailes built the Fox News fear factory

by News Sources 05.31.2011

For Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson writes: At the Fox News holiday party the year the network overtook archrival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a Midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing [...]

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The fear of freedom

by Paul Woodward 02.13.2011

As the train of democracy gathers steam in Egypt, there are those nearby who seem eager to throw themselves under its wheels. No doubt an observer such as the Israeli historian, Benny Morris, is vain enough to imagine that he is not about to get run over but, on the contrary, hopes his grave warnings [...]

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Ashamed to be an Israeli

by News Sources 01.13.2011

Amnon Danker, former editor of Israel’s popular Hebrew newspaper, Maariv, writes: … I have felt lately that it has become shameful to be an Israeli, and a decent person must feel this shame and blush deeply and clear his throat and whisper to himself the question, what should we do, what should we do, for [...]

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The redemptive xenophobia sweeping across Israel

by News Sources 12.26.2010

Daniel Blatman writes: Sebastian Haffner was a young lawyer in Germany in 1932. As a non-Jew, Haffner could have continued to further his career in the civil service. In describing the atmosphere in his country before the takeover by the Nazi dictatorship, he wrote that “the game dragged on tedious and gloomy, without high spots, [...]

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Benjamin Netanyahu, inciter-in-chief

by News Sources 12.25.2010

Yossi Gurvitz writes: A strange dialogue took this place between grassroots rightwing activists and the government. A demonstration was held in Bat Yam under the slogan of fighting the Arabs, with an emphasis on the fear of “assimilation”, or, to use the more accurate and less laundered term, defilement of blood. One of the participants [...]

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The Return of Ghosts: Debating the rise of Geert Wilders and the far-right at the Nexus Symposium

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Max Blumenthal writes: I spent last week in Amsterdam, where I participated in the “Return of Ghosts” symposium of the Nexus Institute, a discussion/debate about the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe and anti-democratic trends in the West. Besides providing a forum for debating European politics, the symposium was the occasion for the first public appearance [...]

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Glenn Beck: inspired by Iran or Lyndon LaRouche?

by Paul Woodward 11.12.2010

George Soros is a Jewish tycoon and mastermind of ultra-modern colonialism. He is also a thug who is deployed as an economic hitman for the British empire. The first claim comes from a video produced by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence which has depicted Soros operating out of the Situation Room in the White House, while [...]

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Scapegoating-psychology and rising xenophobia in America

by Paul Woodward 09.14.2010

Peter Beinart compares the mood in America with the hysteria that provoked the Palmer Raids in 1919 and the anti-Communist fearmongering of McCarthyism that began in the late 1940s. Ever since 9/11, according to opinion polls, Republicans have worried more about terrorism than have Democrats. Initially, this fear translated into overwhelming support for military action [...]

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The European minaret-missile threat

by Paul Woodward 11.29.2009

The European minaret-missile threat By Paul Woodward, War in Context, November 29, 2009 Bigotry is on the rise in “the westerly excrescence of the continent of Asia.” That unpoetic but topographically-precise description of Europe comes from the Oxford archeologist, Barry Cunliffe. Whenever voices declaring that European culture is under threat are at their most strident, [...]

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Brüno’s so-called ‘terrorist’ speaks out

by Paul Woodward 07.29.2009

Brüno’s so-called ‘terrorist’ speaks out By Ann El Khoury, Pulse, July 29, 2009 Sacha Baron Cohen, who makes low-grade shock comedies such as the moronic Borat, is an unreconstructed zionist. Some friends also find his politics distasteful but acknowledge Cohen’s comedic ‘talents’. I can make no such acknowledgment and have never found his movies or [...]

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U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE

by Paul Woodward 07.28.2009

U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE By Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle, July 27, 2009 The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months. Veloz had to prove his [...]

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CAMPAIGN 08: An inability to recognize ourselves in one another

by Paul Woodward 01.21.2008

Islamofascism’s ill political wind By James Carroll, Boston Globe, January 21, 2008 In contrast to the way militant zealotries of other religions have been perceived, there is a broad conviction, especially among many conservative American Christians, that the inner logic of Islam and fascism go together. Political candidates appeal to those Christians by defining the [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Overcoming America’s fear of the world

by Paul Woodward 12.22.2007

The power of personality By Fareed Zacharia, Newsweek, December 15, 2007 I never thought I’d be in this position. There’s a debate taking place about what matters most when making judgments about foreign policy— experience and expertise on the one hand, or personal identity on the other. And I find myself coming down on the [...]

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OPINION: The rise of racist liberalism

by Paul Woodward 11.01.2007

How liberals lost their anti-racism By Arun Kundnani, IRR, October 3, 2007 A new sentiment has gripped the mainstream of liberal thinking in Britain over the last few years. It is an attitude that regards Muslims as uniquely problematic and in need of forceful integration into what it views as the inherently superior values of [...]

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