US foreign wars and Middle East conflicts directly shape Arab Americans’ domestic civil rights.

Evidence

But we have also arrived at a moment in our history where you cannot separate Arab American issues from Arab issues. Our situation here, in other words, is directly dependent on what happens in the Middle East, so there is yet another imperative to find just solutions to the conflicts of the region, the Palestinian question above all. Overseas wars threaten the human rights of many people abroad and our civil rights here at home—not just the rights of Arab and Muslim Americans but the rights of all Americans. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1220

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Pearl Harbor internment logic and the general pattern that national security threats get mapped onto domestic minority scapegoating.