Palestinians in the West are politically erased or rendered as nuisances or Orientals

Evidence

The life of an Arab Palestinian in the West, particularly in America, is disheartening. There exists here an almost unanimous consensus that politically he does not exist, and when it is allowed that he does, it is either as a nuisance or, as an Oriental. The web of racism, cultural stereotypes, political imperialism, dehumanizing ideology holding in the Arab or the Muslim is very strong indeed, and it is this web which every Palestinian has come to feel as his uniquely punishing destiny. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 100

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s Islamophobia field — this is the lived-experience grounding for the critical-theory vocabulary the Foundations module is assembling.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: Said’s claim that no US Orientalist has ever identified wholeheartedly with the Arabs — is this still true today, and what would ‘acceptable’ identification look like?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 100