Orientalism at Large

Hate speech against Arabs and Muslims continues to be permissible while speech against the genocidal aims of the Israeli war on Gaza continues to be criminalized and simultaneously instrumentalized to further the obscene ends of the ethno-colonial settler expansion of the Israeli state. Part of my research aims to study the frightening vacuity and ferocity of the routine accusations (of terrorism and antisemitism) leveled against everyday Arab and Muslim actors and activists and to gauge their lethal consequences. The other part focuses on Muslim and Arab American analytical and critical accounts (both testimonial and fictional) that have sought to confront and offer factual evidence to the contrary of dogma and bigotry.