Stop Racial Profiling
The massive surveillance program implemented by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in coordination with CIA officials is shredding the Constitution, putting at risk the rights and freedoms of not just Arab Americans and American Muslims, but all Americans. If left unchecked, their behavior will weaken the foundations of our democracy and seriously compromise our values as an open and inclusive society.
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June 10, 2013 — Blog
Beyond Chiesa: What’s Next for New Jersey
By: Matt Haugen
Summer 2013 Intern
Last Thursday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appointed New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to the Senate seat formerly held by Frank Lautenberg, who died last week. Chiesa, who was a surprise pick to fill the seat, will remain in the Senate for only four months and will not seek re-election during the special election in October. Chiesa is poised to bring very different ideas to Lautenberg’s seat. Read More »
May 31, 2013 — Blog
House Judiciary Hearing Highlights Civil Liberties Challenges Post-9/11
By Isaac Levey
Legal Fellow
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled “Protecting U.S. Citizens’ Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror.” Witnesses discussed the always-timely and elusive quest to balance perhaps the two most important goals our policymakers should face: protecting our citizens and our nation from violent attacks; and observing the sacred constitutional freedoms we must prize as much as our safety. Read More »
May 29, 2013 — Blog
New America Foundation Hosts Discussion on Online Radicalization
By Isaac Levey
Legal Fellow
The New America Foundation, in collaboration with the Muslim Public Affairs Council, held a panel discussion Tuesday entitled “Online Radicalization: Myths and Realities.” The discussion was aimed at covering important, but often overlooked, questions about how online radicalization relates to the threat of homegrown violent extremism in the United States, and how it can be combated. The panel discussion, which is available to watch at the link above, explored these questions and then took questions from the audience. Read More »
May 22, 2013 — Blog
AAI Submits Testimony to House Judiciary Hearing on Constitutional Rights During War on Terror
Post 9/11, the government has instituted a number of counterterrorism measures that while purporting to address national security concerns compromise the civil liberties and rights of U.S. citizens. The 2003 Department of Justice Racial Profiling Guidelines, the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance program, and the FBI’s anti-Arab and anti-Muslim training manuals are just a few examples. Read More »
May 10, 2013 — Blog
AAI Submits Statement to House Hearing on Boston Bombing
The Arab American Institute submitted the following statement from Executive Director Maya Berry to the first House Homeland Security Committee hearing on last month’s bombings in Boston. Immediately after the attacks, false information about the motives, origins, and perpetrators of the attacks were widely disseminated by members of the media, elected officials and members of the intelligence community to an anxious American public. Predictably, and without any knowledge of the facts, proponents of increased surveillance and ethnic and religious profiling - practices which target the Arab American and American Muslim communities - used Boston to make the case that such programs should be expanded. Read More »
Looking at Iran by James Zogby
From the desk of Dr. Zogby
Tamarrod: Egyptians Organizing for June 30th
June 30th marks Mohamed Morsi's first anniversary as President of Egypt. It is also the date set for nationwide demonstrations protesting Morsi's increasingly authoritarian leadership and the role his Muslim Brotherhood is playing in post-Tahrir Egypt. Read More »
Viewpoint with James Zogby: Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program Fellows, Bill Press
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (October 9, 2012)
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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