Some Palestinian Americans in the U.S. say they feel abandoned by the U.S., and fear rising anti-Palestinian sentiment and Islamophobia at home.
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The dozen Palestinian Americans NPR talked to from around the U.S. say they are mourning Gaza, while feeling completely abandoned by their country. On top of that, they fear rising anti-Palestinian sentiment and Islamophobia.Luthun does data engineering by day. By night he's a poet and a community organizer.
But now,"even if I wanted to go to Gaza, I can't. If I want to get my family out of Gaza, I can't," he says.1 million Palestinians to leave Gaza City. Other members stayed together on the edge of northern Gaza – because Israel also bombed A man cries because his home was bombed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on October 16, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza.Over the weekend, his sister-in-law lost 12 members of her family in an airstrike on their home. All of her siblings are gone, and they can't find her father in the rubble.
She says American politicians, media and culture are stuck in what she calls a false narrative that this latest siege began with Hamas' attack – when decades of complicated history preceded this moment. People were also beating the drum of war on social media like Facebook and X, says Almadhoun. Sometimes they were people he knew."You find many decent people — they're frothing at the mouth, 'Hey, we want to burn Gaza to the ground, finish them,'"he says.Almadhoun thinks that rhetoric made it inevitable that Palestinian Americans would face real-world violence. He was devastated, but not surprised, when on Oct.
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