White on Paper, Invisible by DesignAbout This Episode: In this solo episode, Habuba breaks down how bureaucratic erasure becomes physical violence against Palestinians and Arabs in America. From census forms to FBI databases, hospital records to immigration files, she reveals the deliberate system designed to make us vanish—not by accident, but by architecture.In This Episode: Habuba takes you through:Why that "White" checkbox on forms is about more than paperwork—it's about who lives and who diesThe century-long legal manipulation of Arab "whiteness," shifting whenever it served American interestsHow the FBI deliberately erased anti-Arab hate crimes from official records for 23 years while violence skyrocketedWhy Palestinian Americans like Shireen Abu Akleh and Wadea al-Fayoume receive no justice, even in deathThe direct connection between campus surveillance from the 1970s to today's repression of Palestinian studentsHow being classified as "white" leads Arab women to die in childbirth and communities to miss critical health resourcesThe brutal truth about conditional solidarity and which communities benefit from Palestinian erasureWhat actual implementation of the MENA category must look like beyond symbolic recognitionTake Action:Check if your local agencies have implemented the 2024 OMB MENA classification changeAsk your city's police department if they code and track anti-Arab hate crimesSupport organizations like ACCESS, Arab American Institute, and ADC who are fighting for accurate dataDemand your representatives advocate for investigations into Palestinian American deaths abroadResources:Office of Management and Budget 2024 MENA Classification StandardsArab American Institute Foundation Report: Underreported, Under ThreatACCESS Health Justice ProgramPalestine Legal's Resources for Students and FacultySubscribe to the Humanize Gaza Newsletter.See more martyr stories, here. "They didn't make us white to make us safe. They made us white to make us quiet." – Habuba"

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