Roqayah Chamseddine

Roqayah Chamseddine is a Lebanese-American writer, published poet, and journalist, whose work can be found at Roqchams.com.

Trump’s ‘VOICE’: A Fascist Doctrine Straight Out Of Hitler’s Playbook

A new program to be introduced under the Trump administration seems inspired by the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany. How far will his government go to belittle and vilify America’s immigrants?

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A 1935 article from the Nazi periodical Neues Volk entitled, “The Criminal Jew.” This article shows photos of Jews alongside their alleged crimes.

Donald Trump's first month in office has already left countless human rights organizations and activists reeling. The ACLU and a small army of lawyers have been working around the clock, pro bono, to fight an executive order that has targeted visa holders, green card holders and DREAMers. One would hope that things couldn't get any worse in such a

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White Supremacists Are Infiltrating The Ranks Of US Law Enforcement

Though right-wing attacks have killed more people on American soil than attacks carried out by Muslim extremists, the Trump administration is pushing for a national counter-terror program to focus solely on the latter.

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Facebook user Evan Parish Matthews posted this photo depicting a Philadelphia Police Officer Ian Hans Lichtermann sporting a Nazi-inspired tattoo.

Much has been said about the need to protect U.S. borders from dangerous entrants, specifically terrorists. From a proposed hyper-militarized border wall to the contested executive order banning travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations, the burgeoning security state of the Trump administration is using violence and fear-mongering to manipulate

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Colin Kaepernick’s Black Lives Protest Met With Nationalistic Outrage

Militant nationalism, spurred at least in part by right wing populism, has become part and parcel of American consciousness.

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, left, greets Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at the end of an NFL preseason football game Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Santa Clara, Calif.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. American nationalism is arguably a breed all its own. It’s a kind of patriotic obsession that manages to force a thread of shame into its adherents so that, should they ever veer too far from its path, the crushing guilt will overwhelm them enough to bring them back. Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for

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New Film Reveals Israel’s US Propaganda War

‘The Occupation Of The American Mind’ not only dispels the myth of Israel’s victimhood, but brings the past and present together in order to unearth realities of the occupation, which rightfully humanize the Palestinians

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Published in partnership with Shadowproof. “The Occupation Of The American Mind,” directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, is a stunning documentary examining Israel’s public relations war in the United States. It premiered last month. The film, which begins with a heart-stopping shot of an apartment complex in Gaza as it is bombed during

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Leading US Presidential Candidates Normalize Anti-Muslim Sentiment

“There’s always a consistent flow of hate that you receive when you’re a prominent Muslim organization that speaks up on behalf of the Muslim community. Sadly, anti-Islam groups—including some groups run by Muslims—are consistently engaged in a campaign of trying to smear and undermine the work of Muslim activists and organizations. The output of this is an increase in hate messages and calls. At the end of the day, it’s just noise and we push forward.”

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Anti-Islam protesters gather outside a mosque May 29, 2015, in Phoenix.(Photo: Michael Schennum, The Arizona Republic)

  In A Measure of Islamophobia, published by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley, author S. Sayyid contends that to label something as being Islamophobic “is a constitutive act; it enables the gathering of disparate elements into recognizable formations of cruelty and injustice, which is the first task of

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