{"id":898,"date":"2008-10-15T02:34:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T06:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=898"},"modified":"2008-10-15T02:34:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T06:34:41","slug":"bigoted-society-arabs-targeted-by-pervasive-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/10\/15\/bigoted-society-arabs-targeted-by-pervasive-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigoted society : Arabs targeted by pervasive anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arabs suffer the brunt of modern American anti-Semitism. \u00a0They are considered foreign, dangerous, militant; \u00a0blamed for global ills, used as scapegoats. \u00a0And despite the presence of respected individual Arabs in most every <strong>walk of life<\/strong> and position of authority, these are implicitly considered exceptions, and &#8216;Arab&#8217; is treated as an <strong>epithet<\/strong>, at times even on the most public of stages.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this context that the other day, in an atmosphere of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2008\/10\/12-4\">murderous rally shouts<\/a>, when an older woman famously called Obama an Arab, McCain rushed to correct her, saying &#8220;<em>No, ma&#8217;am. \u00a0He&#8217;s a decent family man..<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0 As <strong>Campbell Brown<\/strong>\u00a0had the sense to report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/13\/campbell.brown.obama\/\">So what if he were an Arab?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The more pertinent question for us, dear readers, may be: How can dozens and dozens of MSM journalists report this as though it were a simple and reasonable defense of an opponent? \u00a0How very <strong><em>embarrassing<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabs suffer the brunt of modern American anti-Semitism. \u00a0They are considered foreign, dangerous, militant; \u00a0blamed for global ills, used as scapegoats. \u00a0And despite the presence of respected individual Arabs in most every walk of life and position of authority, these are implicitly considered exceptions, and &#8216;Arab&#8217; is treated as an epithet, at times even on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-eu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}