Official anti-hate strategies functioned as cover for US arms to Israel

Evidence

In May 2023, the White House announced a National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, and in November 2023, the first-ever US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate. … Biden and members of the Democratic Party use the term “Islamophobia” to perform caring about Muslims while simultaneously arming and funding a genocidal campaign against predominantly Muslim Palestinians—a genocide that is fueling anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia. In the twelve months after October 7, 2023, the US spent 22.76 billion on military aid to Israel, which includes supplying fighter jets, bombs, and missiles, and Biden approved an additional 680 million in arms sales to Israel in November 2024. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader scholarship on performative allyship and the co-option of anti-racism language by states pursuing contradictory foreign policy. — connects to: DEI responses to October 7 conceal the Israel-Gaza context and normalize Zionist justifications. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 4; Campus repression of Palestine speech is asymmetric since endorsing Israel faces no comparable suppression. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 27; Public anti-Islamophobia stances can function as a cover for pro-Israel politics — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 35 (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay angle on how DEI and state-level anti-hate discourse become a fig leaf for funding violence against the very group named in the policy.

Broader Connections

• Public anti-Islamophobia stances can function as a cover for pro-Israel politics #expands (0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 35
• Campus DEI responses to October 7 systematically obscure Israel’s role in anti-Palestinian violence #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 11