Arab American Leader Maya Berry Responds After GOP Senator’s Racist Questioning
Berry says the experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation.
The comment from the Senator has been called a direct racist attack. Calls for Kennedy to be censured have been growing since the hearing.
Senator John Kennedy has sparked a backlash after he told an Arab American activist to "hide [her] head in a bag" during a ...
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GOP senator insults Arab American advocate at hearing on hate crimesSen. John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana questioned Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, asking her whether she supported Hamas, ...
Romero, released the following statement regarding Sen. John Kennedy’s questioning of Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute: “The American Civil Liberties Union ...
Maya Berry came to testify as an expert on hate crimes. She ended up the target of blatant anti-Arab racism by Republican senators.
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