At a press conference on Thursday morning the Uncommitted Movement announced that will not be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election.
Three Palestinian students were shot and injured in Burlington, Vermont in an apparent hate crime. The suspect remains at large.
A 71-year-old man in Illinois was charged with stabbing a 6-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring his mother in an Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian attack.
Last week a man in Salem, Oregon was charged with assault, intimidation and unlawful use of a weapon after he yelled at an employee working in a Middle Eastern restaurant, “go back to your country, terrorist” and then attacked him with a plastic pipe. The victim’s daughter, Layla Abdel-Jawad writes the man, Jason Kendall, suffers from a mental illness and should not be charged with a hate crime.