Trump’s unabashed labeling of Palestinians as terrorists accompanied abandoning refugee funding

Evidence

Trump unabashedly denounced Palestinians as terrorists, stating during his 2016 campaign that he would not be neutral toward Palestinians. As he put it, they have to “stop with the terror because what they’re doing with the missiles and with the stabbings and with all of the other things that they do, it’s horrible and it’s gotta end.” In his first year in office, the administration dropped Washington’s long-standing commitment to a two-state solution and a year later ended all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that provides services to five million Palestinian refugees. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core question: how anti-Palestinian racism is carried by administration rhetoric and institutional funding withdrawal — a distinct channel from the think-tank/media projects documented in earlier chapters. — connects to: Trump abandoned the US claim of neutral brokerage toward the Palestinians; Palestinian refugee status is reframed as manufactured and self-inflicted; Palestinian refugee status is reframed as an Arab-created refusal crisis, not an Israeli cause — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 237 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Palestinian refugee status is reframed as manufactured and self-inflicted #expands (0.85)
• Palestinian refugee status is reframed as an Arab-created refusal crisis, not an Israeli cause #expands (0.80) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 237
• Trump’s agenda threatened Muslims through surveillance, registry, and civic repression #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 56