Palestinian American
A Muslim civil rights group is calling for Bert James Baker to face hate crime charges in the stabbing of 23-year-old Zacharia Doar in Austin.
"You know where your tax money is going, and it's being used to go kill your brothers and sisters," the teen's cousin told HuffPost.
Ida Khalil has washed more than a hundred women. “I used to be afraid of dead people,” she says. “Now I could sleep next to dead people.”
An uncle of one of the students shot in the possible hate crime said it's “hard to imagine” the young men were not targeted.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Many say they are facing increased anti-Arab, anti-Muslim rhetoric since Israel launched its retaliatory attack on Gaza.
Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups have identified numerous anti-Palestinian or antisemitic incidents in the U.S. since the war in Israel and Gaza began.
A white landlord is accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, 26 times, and seriously wounding his mother.
The State Department said it expects a "thorough criminal investigation" into the death of 78-year-old Omar Assad, whom Israeli soldiers detained last month.
The all-female staff at Clifton's Palestinian American Community Center received about 30 calls including slurs, death threats and threats of sexual abuse.
After verbally attacking a Palestinian-American family, the Trump supporters claimed they are not racists.