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Harris appoints Muslim outreach chief with contentious views on Israel Nasrina Bargzie previously served as a policy adviser in Vice President Kamala Harris’s White House office and is best known for her contentious views on issues related to Israel and Palestine.

August 15, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The Harris 2024 campaign has appointed Nasrina Bargzie as a new outreach leader to engage Muslim and Arab voters, according to NBC News on Tuesday. This move has already sparked controversy due to her past statements about Israel and Jewish […]

Feds taking first steps toward revising race, ethnic terms

June 16, 2022 Mike Schneider

(AP) The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering. The revisions could open […]

Omar reintroduces bill to repeal law used to justify Trump’s Muslim ban, Japanese Americans’ internment

June 1, 2021 Celine Castronuovo

(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday reintroduced legislation seeking to repeal an 18th-century law that was used as justification for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and, more recently, for the Trump administration’s ban on travelers from Muslim-majority […]

New name, same game: American Muslims vow to fight new ‘counter-terror’ initiative Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention programme is just an extension of CVE, advocacy groups say

June 5, 2020 Umar A. Farooq

(Middle East Eye) Ahmed Mohamed made headlines five years ago when he brought a homemade clock to his US public high school. A robotics enthusiast, Mohamed loved engineering and had dreams of studying at the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Still, when […]

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