The Biden administration announced Thursday it is launching a national strategy to combat Islamophobia.
The move, which the administration described as a first-of-its-kind strategy to counter Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred, comes more than a year after Hamas launched an unprovoked attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Anti-Semitic protests soared. And anti-Semitism is spreading across America.
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“The very American idea is that we are all created equal and deserve equal treatment throughout our lives,” President Biden said in a statement posted on social media. “This strategy is a historic step in realizing our ideals. Let us move forward together, upholding those ideals and promoting our collective prosperity.”
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The Biden administration announced Thursday it is launching a national strategy to combat Islamophobia. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
The White House said in a statement that the strategy aims to “address the prejudice, discrimination, and threats that Muslims and Arab Americans have faced for years,” including threats against Muslim and Arab communities in the United States. He pointed out that the number increased last year.
“In October 2023, Wadi al-Fayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian American Muslim boy, was brutally murdered in his home in Illinois. Over the past year, there have been other harrowing attacks against Muslim Americans and Arab Americans. “It was also there,” the release said.
Oday Al-Fayoumi and others carry the casket of his son Wadi Al-Fayoumi for burial at Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Illinois, on October 16, 2023. (Eileen T. Messler/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The White House noted that President Biden established an interagency group to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in December 2022. Last year, the administration released the first-ever national strategy to combat anti-Semitism.
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Anti-Israel billboard at Columbia University in New York City, April 27, 2024. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs)
Strategies to combat Islamophobia focus on raising awareness of anti-Arab hatred, improving safety, tackling discrimination, addressing religious practices, and building solidarity across communities.
Following the October 7 attack on Israel and the ongoing war with Hamas, anti-Semitic incidents have reached an all-time high.
People protest during the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 28, 2024 in New York City. (Reuters/Brendan McDiarmid)
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Just this week, students at Columbia University began distributing newspapers with articles such as “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood” and “The Myth of the Two-State Solution,” and anti-Israel demonstrators last month They disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
