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Wahed’s experience was nearly universal among Arab Jews. The rise of Arab nationalism in the mid-20th century was accompanied by virulent anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Many Arab leaders openly supported the genocide carried out by the Nazis. Hajj Amin al-Husayni, a Palestinian nationalist leader and the Mufti of Jerusalem, went to Berlin in 1941 and asked Hitler to “resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab countries in the same way as the problem was resolved in the Axis Countries...
...were forced to leave Iraq, the Iraqi government seized their bank accounts, and allowed each of them to take only one suitcase. In 1948 there were 80,000 Jews in Egypt whereas today fewer than 50 remain. Altogether, 900,000 Jews were forced to flee their homes in the Arab world. Arab states destroyed ancient Jewish communities that had existed for 2,700 years and created a refugee population of almost one million people...
...reasons for wanting to rid itself of al-Qaeda. The country sent thousands of young men to join the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and hundreds more drifted over there in the 1990s and became disciples of bin Laden. That left Yemen with one of the Arab world's largest concentrations of al-Qaeda supporters, which threatens President Saleh's plans to strengthen ties with the West. Recent suspected al-Qaeda operations in Yemen have included attacks on a French oil tanker and a U.S. oil company, underscoring the terrorist threat to Yemen's own economic development...
...nearest mosque to call for an end to the violence. Two weeks after the attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft already had 40 anti-Muslim hate crime cases sitting on his desk. Several mosques were firebombed. A Sikh gas station attendant in Arizona was shot for merely looking like an Arab. Some things have improved since then, but much has not. Last month, the Center for American Islamic Relations, one of the few organizations still tracking the situation, released its annual report revealing that in the last 12 months, the quantity of hate crimes nationally against Middle Easterners is quadruple...
Many college officials are fully aware of the current political realities facing students of Middle Eastern descent. At the University of Arizona in Tucson, the dean’s office reported that since Sept. 11 at least 39 Arab students pulled out of their courses, citing fear as a primary factor. The University of Colorado in Denver had 45 Arab students withdraw. Perhaps it’s time for these college officials to draft a more honest, fair and inclusive anti-intimidation letter. Students of all political leanings and ethnic backgrounds would be the better...