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Claim: Anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian discrimination in the US rose 180% after Oct. 7
Real, imaginary, or hypersensitivity in a fraught time? Based on the samples given, half the complaints are not justified as bigotry.
If you start with the assumption people don't like you, they probably won't. Double the chances if you start out despising them.
[IsraelTimes] The Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
 says it received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023, which also saw sharp rise in antisemitism

Complaints of anti-Moslem and anti-Paleostinian discrimination and hate in the US rose by about 180 percent in the three months after Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7 terror onslaught in southern Israel and the subsequent war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, an advocacy group said on Monday.

Rights advocates have noted a rise in Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
 and anti-Paleostinian bias in the US and elsewhere since the eruption of war between Israel and Hamas, which in turn sparked wider regional tensions.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it has received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023, amid what it called "an ongoing wave of anti-Moslem and anti-Paleostinian hate."

The figure is a 178% rise from complaints in the same period from a year earlier.

Complaints of employment discrimination led the list with 662 instances;
...how many are withheld or retracted job offers to students who marched for Hamas after news of the 10/7 came out? Quite a few American employers do not want employees who publicly support torture, kidnapping, and mass rape...
hate crimes and hate incidents were reported 472 times; and education discrimination 448 times, the organization said.

Of particular concern was a November shooting in Vermont where three students of Paleostinian descent, Hisham Awartani Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, were shot during Thanksgiving break. The three students, childhood friends who graduated from a private Quaker school in the West Bank before moving to the US to study, were visiting Awartani’s relatives in Burlington when they were shot in an unprovoked attack, Awartani’s family said. One of the bullets fired in the attack was lodged in Awartani’s spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
That one was not Islamophobia. James J. Eaton, local Burlington, Vermont crazy man who loves Joe Biden and Hamas, stumbled out of his house and shot at the three men walking past his house. After which all the usual suspects blamed it on Israel defending itself from Hamas after 10/7.
Another incident that raised alarm was the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Paleostinian American child in Illinois in October. Joseph Czuba, 71, was charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume and the wounding of his mother, Hanaan Shahin on October 14, and US authorities have said they were targeted because of their Moslem faith and as a response to the Israel-Hamas war.
This one is strange. Mr. Czuba was divorcée Ms Shahin’s landlord, and in the habit of bringing the young lad toys. But after 10/7 he became afraid to have a Palestinian tenant, and then something happened. The estranged father then sued to get lotsa money out of what he presumed was a rich American, with no hint that any of it would be shared afterward with the dead child’s mother...
Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League said that in the three months after October 7, US antisemitic incidents rose by 360% compared to the prior year.

The US government recently issued security guidance for faith-based communities amid heightened antisemitism and Islamophobia since October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led turbans poured into Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages, of whom 132 remain captive in Gaza, not all of them alive.

In response to the deadly assault, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, which the terror group has ruled since 2007. An aerial campaign and subsequent ground operation has laid waste to much of the Paleostinian enclave, and the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
 has estimated that around 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced.

According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, more than 26,000 people have been killed, though these figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.

The IDF says it has killed over 9,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 turbans inside Israel on October 7.

The US Justice Department is monitoring rising threats against Jews and Moslems amid the conflict, and President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
 has condemned both antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Pro-Palestinian students file complaint alleging Harvard failed to protect them

[IsraelTimes] Over a dozen students are alleging that Harvard University failed to protect them from harassment and threats "based solely" on their pro-Paleostinian identity, the group representing them said.

The Moslem Legal Fund of America says its legal division filed a civil rights complaint on Monday with the US Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on behalf of those students. The complaint urged a probe into Harvard.

Rights advocates have noted a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Paleostinian bias and antisemitism in the US since the eruption of war in the Middle East.

Among anti-Paleostinian incidents that raised alarm were a November shooting in Vermont of three students of Paleostinian descent and the fatal stabbing of a six-year-old Paleostinian American child in Illinois in October.

The Harvard students alleged "harassment, intimidation, threats and more based solely on them being Paleostinian, Arab, Moslem, and supporters of Paleostinian rights," the group said. It added the students also underwent racist attacks, doxxing, stalking, and assault, including for wearing keffiyehs, or Paleostinian scarves.

A Harvard spokesperson said the university had no comment on the complaint on Monday, but added that Harvard had resources in place to support students including a task force announced on Friday to combat Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias.

Harvard and other US colleges have simmered with tension over responses to the October 7 shock Hamas attack on Israel, and Israel’s subsequent offensive in Gazoo.

Earlier this month, Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard following backlash over her congressional testimony on antisemitism and allegations of plagiarism.

During a Congressional hearing, she and two other university presidents declined to give a definitive "yes" or "no" answer to a question on whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools’ codes of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, saying it would have to be balanced against free-speech protections.

Some students alleged that Harvard had threatened "to limit or retract the students’ future academic opportunities," the Moslem Legal Fund of America said on Monday.

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