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According to ''.. ANTI-ARABISM IN THE U.S. According to a 2001 poll of Arab Americans conducted by the Arab American Institute "32% of Arab Americans reported having been subjected to some form of ethnic-based discrimination during their lifetimes, 20% reported having experienced an instance of ethnic-based discrimination since September 11. Of special concern, for example, is the fact that 45% of students and 37% of Arab Americans of the Muslim faith report being targeted by discrimination since September 11. {Link without Title} According to the FBI and Arab groups, the number of attacks against Arabs, Muslims, and others mistaken as such rose considerably after the 9/11 attacks. Among the victims of the backlash was a Middle Eastern man in Houston, Texas who was shot and wounded after an assailant accused him of blowing up the country [http://www.aaiusa.org/PDF/JZ%20October%20Testimony.pdf and four immigrants shot and killed by a man named Larme Price who confessed to killing them as revenge for the 9/11 attacks.[http://www.aaiusa.org/news/must_read03_31_03ny.htm] Although Price described his victims as Arabs, only one was from an Arab country. Arab Americans also experienced backlash as result of other terrorist attacks including the bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and even in events where Arabs were not involved like the "In just three days after the Oklahoma City bombing...more than 200 serious hate crimes were committed against Arab Americans and American Muslims. The same was true in the days following September 11." {Link without Title} Prominent conservative commentators in the United States have voiced hostility towards Arabs. , Fri, May 14, 2004. Accessed April 8, 2006.. Conservative pundit and author , May 28, 2003. , though no arrests were made {Link without Title} . ANTI-ARABISM IN AUSTRALIA . It has also been described as "anti-Arab racism" by community leaders {Link without Title} . A 2004 report by the , June 17, 2004. Accessed April 8, 2006. ANTI-ARABISM IN IRAN Anti-Arabism in Iran is related to the notion that Arabs forced ''). Author Richard Foltz in his article "Internationalization of Islam" states "Even today, many Iranians perceive the Arab destruction of the Sassanid empire as the single greatest tragedy in Iran’s long history. {Link without Title} Anti-Arab prejudice was also inflamed by the hostilities between Iran and Iraq. Iranians Arabs were mistrusted and accused by some fellow Iranians for supporting and collaborating with Iraqi forces in the Iraq invasion of Iran in 1980. During a visit to Khuzestan, which has most of Iran's Arab population, British journalist John R Bradley wrote that despite the fact that the majority of Arabs supported Iran in the war, "ethnic Arabs complain that, as a result of their divided loyalties during the Iran-Iraq war, they are viewed more than ever by the clerical regime in Tehran as a potential fifth column, and suffer from a policy of discrimination." {Link without Title} However, many Iranians have stressed the role Iran's Arab population played in defending Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and the fact that most refused to heed Saddam Hussein's call for an uprising and instead fought against Iraq. {Link without Title} In a report published in February 2006, Amnesty International claimed that the "Arab population of Iran is one of the most economically and socially deprived in Iran" and that Arabs have "reportedly been denied state employment under the gozinesh criteria". Furthermore, it states land expropriation by the Iranian authorities is reportedly so widespread that it appears to amount to a policy aimed at dispossessing Arabs of their traditional lands. This is apparently part of a strategy aimed at the forcible relocation of Arabs to other areas while facilitating the transfer of non-Arabs into Khuzestan and is linked to economic policies such as zero interest loans which are not available to local Arabs. However, critics of human rights organisations contend that Arabs do have social mobility in Iran, pointing to the fact that an ethnic Arab - Ali Shamkhani - was appointed defence minister under the government of President Khatami . Nevertheless, some critics of the Iranian government contend that it is carrying out a policy of anti-Arab Ethnic Cleansing . [http://zope06.v.servelocity.net/hjs/sections/middleeast/document.2006-03-07.9070964039 ANTI-ARABISM IN ISRAEL During the 2000 , Wednesday, 11 October, 2000. Accessed April 8, 2006. . The Israeli political party , referring to Yisrael Beitenu , has said "Anyone who opposes racism must not let the extreme right-wing bloc run Israel" {Link without Title} . Some Israeli politicians and leaders have used negative language when discussing Arabs and Palestinians. In 2004, Yehiel Hazan, an Israeli member of parliament, declared at the Knesset that "The Arabs are worms. You find them everywhere like worms, underground as well as above." and went on to describe them as "murderers" and "terrorists". [http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/4602_62 . asked "What is it about Islam as a whole and the Palestinians in particular? Is it some form of cultural deprivation? Is it some genetic defect? There is something that defies explanation in this continued murderousness." [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=397851]. Anti-Arab graffiti has been spraypainted in Jerusalem In Hebron the slogans "Arabs to the crematoria" and "Arabs - sub-humans" were once spray-painted on a wall.[http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=255169&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y A comic strip for children was carried in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish weekly, Sh'a Tova , that negatively depicted Arabs, and made the statement, "Yes, a good Arab is a dead Arab." {Link without Title} IN WESTERN MEDIA . Friday August 11, 2000.. The 2000 film Rules Of Engagement drew criticism from pro-Arab groups, described as "probably the most racist film ever made against Arabs by Hollywood" by the ADC. Paul Clinton of the Boston Globe wrote "at its worst, it's blatantly racist, using Arabs as cartoon-cutout bad guys". . Thursday, March 21, 2002. ANTI-ARABISM IN POLLS France In March 1990, according to a poll reported in Le Monde :
Israel A recent poll conducted by an Israeli research institute {Link without Title} has revealed widespread anti-Arab hostility in Israel.
GROUPS THAT FIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee says that it works to fight and expose anti-Arab discrimination. {Link without Title} The Anti-Defamation League , (ADL) dedicated to combating anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, gave this response shortly after the terrorist attacks on 9-11. "We are disturbed that a number of Arab Americans and Islamic institutions have been targets of anger and hatred in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks." {Link without Title} During July 2003 the Anti-Defamation League urged the Speaker of the United States' House of Representatives to approve a bill condemning bigotry and violence against Arab-Americans and American Muslims. (The bill was resolution 234.) The American Jewish Committee , and American Jewish Congress have issued similar responses. {Link without Title} SEE ALSO ORGANIZATIONS REFERENCES
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