Guilt by the thinnest association sufficed to brand an educator a jihadist.

Evidence

If that was not enough, she went on to accuse Almontaser of “whitewash[ing] the genocide against the Jews.” Daniel Pipes, who also took part in the campaigns against Massad and the Boston Islamic center, claimed the school should be stopped because “Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with Pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage.” The campaign reached fever pitch when the Islamophobes found a picture of a T-shirt with the slogan “Intifada NYC” produced by the group Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM), a local Arab feminist organization. The weak connection between AWAAM and Almontaser is that they share an office with the Yemeni-American association on whose board Almontaser sits. This was all the Islamophobes needed to brand Almontaser as a jihadist. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 531

Categorization

• XREF: The pro-Israel framing (accusing Almontaser of whitewashing Holocaust genocide) connects directly to Kumar’s larger claim that Zionism is a domestic engine of Islamophobia. — connects to: Guilt-by-association is the bedrock principle of professional Islamophobia — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 444; Arab-language education was smeared as terrorist by guilt-by-association campaigns — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 670; Tenuous guilt-by-association ties branded a US teacher a jihadist over Palestinian-rights support — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 682 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Guilt-by-association is the bedrock principle of professional Islamophobia #epitomizes (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 444