Public support for Palestinian rights marks American Muslims as racial dissidents

Evidence

Rashida Tlaib’s anti-Muslim racism work and vocal support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian human rights generally also mark her as a Dissident Racial Muslim. … Since being elected to Congress, Tlaib has not backed down from her support for BDS, which calls for an economic boycott of Israel as a “central form of civil resistance to Israeli occupation, colonialism and apartheid.” As a Palestinian who vocally defends a people stereotyped as terrorists before and after 9/11, Tlaib has attracted the ire of conservative Islamophobes and right-wing Zionists. Indeed, the attacks on Tlaib reveal that the Arab (Palestinian) terrorist trope still lurks in the shadow of the Racial Muslim. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1059

Categorization

• XREF: BDS as a marker of racialized dissent parallels the reader’s notes on how political positions get racialized through state and media framing.