American media’s Middle East coverage produced racialized Arab stereotypes.

Evidence

As more Arabs migrated to the United States, negative stereotypes about them also began to flourish. The American media increasingly covered the Arab-Israeli conflict and the occupation of Palestine in the late 1960s, which led to racialized representations of Arabs in general. While the vilification of Arabs dates back to the eighteenth century, it is important to note that representations are fluid and fluctuate based on the sociohistorical context. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Arabs were portrayed as barbaric, greedy and dishonest—a characterization that was rooted in America’s global interest in the Middle East and particularly Israel (Naber 2000; Cainkar 2009; Alsultany 2012; Shaheen 2014). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 99

Categorization

• XREF: Reflects the same media-driven moral panic dynamic as COINTELPRO-era surveillance framing; connects to the reader’s Global Racial Enemy map. — connects to: National Geographic travel journalism was the leading channel imparting anti-Arab racism — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 216
• SEED: Possible angle: how a foreign-policy conflict (Israel-Palestine) becomes the engine for domestic racialization of a US minority group.