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In the words of Abed Ayoub, director of our nation’s Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, “This is an attack on the fundamental freedoms in this country.” He is right! Threats and attacks based on race or any other individual characteristic are fundamentally un-American.
The letter, written Nov. 30 to Gov. Gavin Newsom, UC President Michael V. Drake and all 10 UC campus chancellors, included links to screenshots of Leib’s social media likes in question.
It was signed by faculty councils representing Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and ethnic studies professors, along with student and community groups representing Palestinian supporters who are Muslim, Arab, Black, Latino, Jewish, Asian American, Pacific Islanders, Middle Eastern, Indigenous and LGBTQ+. Community groups, such as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, also signed the letter.
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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee released a statement condemning the incident.
“I am also part of a collective of attorneys and advocates across the country, and we, along with the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, wrote a letter, as well, to the Biden administration demanding that TPS be extended to Palestinians. And we had over a hundred organizational signatories.”
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“This should have every American worried that we are going down a road where people are going to be targeted simply for what they believe in,” said Abed Ayoub, the national executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). “We haven’t seen anything like this in the U.S. in our generation. It’s going to have some serious ramifications on this country.”
The attacks on Palestinians and their allies in the US are neither new nor an anomaly, they have a long history. In 1985, Alex Odeh, a Christian Palestinian from Orange County, was assassinated when a bomb exploded in his office at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The ADC, protesting Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, sought to convince American voters and public officials against Israel receiving millions of dollars in foreign aid. Odeh, an advocate for Palestinian freedom, was killed for his stance.
The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, Democratic Socialists of America, IfNotNowMovement, Dream Defenders, the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee are the organizations that either participated in the hunger strike or endorsed it.
