Word: arabism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...culture profile of this growing group had been almost nil. You might know that F. Murray Abraham or Danny Thomas had Middle Eastern ancestry, but it was trivia, like knowing that Dan Aykroyd was Canadian. There was no figure whose ethnicity deeply informed his or her work--no Arab-American Dick Gregory or Iranian-American Lenny Bruce...
After several months, he says, he realized that his audience--mostly non-Arab--wanted to hear jokes about what they were hearing in the news. He founded the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and, partnering with a group of Los Angeles comics, did the Axis tour and special, along with The Watch List, an online Comedy Central sketch series the group hopes to develop...
...Instead, the checkpoints have turned into places of humiliation by Israeli soldiers who are always shouting, and who assume that every Arab speaks Hebrew. We don't. So how can I understand it when the girl soldier is shouting at me so angrily...
...Most Israeli soldiers don't speak Arabic, so they don't understand what the Palestinians are saying in line. I hear those voices. They think this process is a worthless humiliation. And they want to take revenge against the Israelis. How? By voting for their enemies, for the two Islamic resistance groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. This is how the Arab mind works: you are stronger, and you humiliate me. I'm weak. I don't have planes or missiles, but I do have the vote, and that's how I take revenge. I vote for your enemy...
Finkelstein and Weiss’s opinions only carry weight because they cynically make use of their Jewish backgrounds to popularize their malicious opinions as legitimate expressions of a "Jewish view." Describing them as such is not only disingenuous, but entirely antithetical to any sort of productive Israeli-Arab dialogue. Student groups seeking to sow the seeds of peace, rather than to engender further misunderstanding, should not play into this deception and should instead seek out speakers that accurately and responsibly represent the different perspectives surrounding the conflict. It is important to remember that the extreme beliefs that Weiss...