Lawmakers and people of varied backgrounds donning keffiyehs filed into the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing room on Tuesday for Washington’s first official attempt to address anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab hate. But the hearing did everything but, with one Republican senator explicitly contributing to it.
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy yelled at the only Muslim and Arab-American witness present — saying she supports Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
“You should hide your head in a bag,” the US elected official said menacingly toward Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute and co-chair of the Hate Crimes Task Force for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. ….more