Anti-Palestinian Racism Is Today's Accepted Racism / Jess Ghannam

Anti-Palestinian racism is accepted. It is normalized. It is sanctioned…You can be fired. We're hearing this from educational institutions and healthcare institutions. We hear these reports every day, people who are wearing solidarity pins for Palestine are being told you have to take that pin off. You can keep your BLM pin, you can keep your LGBTQ plus pin, but you can't wear that pin that has that little watermelon on it. It's become part and parcel of the accepted norm in a lot of spaces in this country to be racist against Palestinians and their allies. And I'm fearful of that. I'm concerned about that. My colleagues and I share that, and that's why we did this study. And we're hoping that these results will open up some eyes and change policy, because ultimately we want to legitimize this, this kind of understanding and create training and funding sources to combat this form of racism and the attempt to normalize it.