Steven Salaita reflects on what the putative assassin of Robert F. Kennedy has meant to his generation of Arab Americans.

This past Monday was supposed to be the day of the historic BDS vote in Burlington, VT, but pro-Israel groups launched a coordinated effort to squash the resolution shortly before it came up.

Hatred of Israel reportedly played a part in Syed Farook’s terrorist rampage in San Bernardino last week. The US press seems to ignore this angle, as it would require showing the damage that the special relationship with Israel helps to bring to Americans, going back to 9/11 and Robert Kennedy’s assassination.

Last night Chris Matthews did a segment arguing that the 9/11 bombers should not be…

The Boston Globe’s Sasha Issenberg has done a pretty-darn-good piece of reporting broaching the idea that RFK’s assassination by Sirhan Sirhan in ’68 was the U.S.’s first taste of Middle East terror, as Sirhan was motivated, he has said, by…