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Commentary: Arab, Palestinian and Muslim Americans are being targeted. Why isn’t Biden listening to our pleas?

Flowers are placed outside the Plainfield Township home where landlord Joseph Czuba, 71, allegedly stabbed 6- year-old Wadea al-Fayoume to death and seriously injured his mother, Hanaan Shahin, on Oct. 14, 2023, after targeting them because they were Muslim, police said.

The heart-wrenching murder of in suburban Chicago on Oct. 14, for his Palestinian heritage and Muslim faith, . Sadly, Palestinian and Arab Americans were not surprised. In the days prior to the , our organization — the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee — made repeated pleas to the Biden administration. We reached out to the White House and other government officials to explain how the administration’s language around the war on Gaza would cause great harm to our communities, because Biden was and . Our calls and messages

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