The head of #Russia’s #HumanRights Council, Valery Fadeev, has said the government should consider a ban on wearing #niqabs, a traditional #Muslim veil that covers the entire face apart from the eyes.
The official voiced the proposal in an interview with the Parlamentskaya Gazeta newspaper published on Monday, which focused on the risks of extremism in multi-ethnic society.
BREAKING: super proud and excited to share that our formidable students were not only amongst the first to start a #Palestine#Gaza occupation back in February - the occupation has now been resolved in the following agreement! There will be Palestine scholarships, a review of investments, and more!
WOW. Labour outdoing the Tories on Islamophobia. Rob Mayor is the BBC Political Editor in the West Midlands and this segment was read out on the BBC this morning.
Fear is widespread on American campuses, researcher says
Students are “observing acts of physical violence and intimidation right in front of them. Jewish students are seeing Jewish buildings attacked. Muslim students are seeing people ... counterattack against Muslims. The students that are not Jewish and not Muslim, they’re just seeing everybody getting ... attacked.”
“It was clear that there was no support for the student in terms of giving her a platform and investing in measures that would need to be taken to ensure that there was a secure commencement for her and everybody else”...
Here, but not here. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what drove me off Mastodon. #Zionism, #Islamophobia, #AntiArabRacism (an odd one to affect me, since I am NOT #Arab, nor have I ever claimed to be) were the usual suspects.
Instance #admins & #mods did what they do best on the fediverse: they attacked. I was but one of a handful of #ProPalestine voices on here that needed to be silenced. #Dogpiling is one of their tactics. People come out of the woodwork to attack. It overwhelms.
“High court upholds top London school’s ban on prayer rituals. Muslim pupil loses case against Michaela community school, run by former government social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh.” Would this be the same if it was Jewish prayers? #Islamophobia
Rachel Riley is deservedly getting a pile-on for what she posted yesterday but very little attention is being paid to the Security Minister calling it terrorism several hours after the Sydney police had made clear that it was no such thing.
I think we all know which "hateful ideologies" he's talking about, right?
#Islamophobia / Where Did All The Hate Go? (Mamoun Fandy)
Egyptian-born American scholar Mamoun Fandy describes the rebranding process of #antisemitism after the #Holocaust, when Western antisemitism found new victims for its abundance of hate left unused after centuries-old antisemitism had become socially unacceptable.
Having lived in the West for around 40 years in academia and public life and discussing the portrayal of Arabs in American media, Fandy questions whether the West has truly overcome its hate of the "semite" that led to the Holocaust.
Some Jews, he argues, participated in this transference, finding relief that the "semitic" stigma was moving away from them onto Arab bodies, even while many Jews were in fact part of the civil rights movement in the U.S.
But the West has not actually healed from antisemitism (as the rise of neo-Nazis in #Germany and elsewhere indicate), it has just redirected it towards another Semitic population - the Arabs. This hatred intensifies during Arab-Israeli conflicts, with the West effectively siding with #Israel as if taking a stand against antisemitism by multiplying its animosity towards Arabs.
The West does not call for ceasefire in #Gaza and shows no human compassion, even while Israeli officials call to "burn Gaza down" (and their U.S. friends retort it should be made a "parking lot"). There's seem to be readiness for another Holocaust, this time against Arabs.
Thus, antisemitism, once again, can be openly expressed towards Arabs in the West, without consequences or social stigma, as the river of hatred has just been diverted.
#Islamophobia / Where Did All The Hate Go? (Mamoun Fandy)
Egyptian-born American scholar Mamoun Fandy describes the rebranding process of #antisemitism after the #Holocaust, when Western antisemitism found new victims for its abundance of hate left unused after centuries-old antisemitism had become socially unacceptable.
Having lived in the West for around 40 years in academia and public life and discussing the portrayal of Arabs in American media, Fandy questions whether the West has truly overcome its hate of the "semite" that led to the Holocaust.
Some Jews, he argues, participated in this transference, finding relief that the "semitic" stigma was moving away from them onto Arab bodies, even while many Jews were in fact part of the civil rights movement in the U.S.
But the West has not actually healed from antisemitism (as the rise of neo-Nazis in #Germany and elsewhere indicate), it has just redirected it towards another Semitic population - the Arabs. This hatred intensifies during Arab-Israeli conflicts, with the West effectively siding with #Israel as if taking a stand against antisemitism by multiplying its animosity towards Arabs.
The West does not call for ceasefire in #Gaza and shows no human compassion, even while Israeli officials call to "burn Gaza down" (and their U.S. friends retort it should be made a "parking lot"). There's seem to be readiness for another Holocaust, this time against Arabs.
Thus, antisemitism, once again, can be openly expressed towards Arabs in the West, without consequences or social stigma, as the river of hatred has just been diverted.
#Islamophobia / Where Did All The Hate Go? (Mamoun Fandy)
Egyptian-born American scholar Mamoun Fandy describes the rebranding process of #antisemitism after the #Holocaust, when Western antisemitism found new victims for its abundance of hate left unused after centuries-old antisemitism had become socially unacceptable.
Having lived in the West for around 40 years in academia and public life and discussing the portrayal of Arabs in American media, Fandy questions whether the West has truly overcome its hate of the "semite" that led to the Holocaust.
Some Jews, he argues, participated in this transference, finding relief that the "semitic" stigma was moving away from them onto Arab bodies, even while many Jews were in fact part of the civil rights movement in the U.S.
But the West has not actually healed from antisemitism (as the rise of neo-Nazis in #Germany and elsewhere indicate), it has just redirected it towards another Semitic population - the Arabs. This hatred intensifies during Arab-Israeli conflicts, with the West effectively siding with #Israel as if taking a stand against antisemitism by multiplying its animosity towards Arabs.
The West does not call for ceasefire in Gaza and shows no human compassion, even while Israeli officials call to "burn Gaza down" (and their U.S. friends retort it should be into a "parking lot"). There's seem to be readiness for another Holocaust, this time against Arabs.
Thus, antisemitism, once again, can be openly expressed towards Arabs in the West, without consequences or social stigma, as the river of hatred has just been diverted.