Palestinian football player defeats the ‘lies and smears’

Look at these comments about the vicious FrontPage attacks upon Oday Aboushi, what I call the smear campaign against Oday Aboushi is Profiling, a very huge problem Americans are today confronted with as illustrated by the Zimmerman case,.

"This takes us to a very uncomfortable place. It's a place we usually try to avoid visiting, but I do not think this story is going away so I feel it is necessary we go here. In the eyes of some, the charges made against Aboushi were viewed as more credible than they should have been due to the fact he is a Palestinian-American. The same charges made against a white man such as myself would not carry the same resonance or suspicion to many. I do not think this is debatable.

Over the past few days, I have been scanning sites, sports, news, and political regarding this story. As I expected, I saw many people defend Aboushi. As I expected, I also saw some truly vile and disgusting comments about him. There was, however, one similar comment I saw a few different times that jumped off the page to me. I saw multiple commenters say they were worried about something like this when the Jets drafted Aboushi.

These comments left me deeply troubled. What information would anybody have had on Draft day to be worried about Aboushi outside of the fact he is a Palestinian-American? This is where I think we all need to be vigilant. We all know about the ugly bigots who openly profess hatred of other groups. Those folks tend to be a vocal minority and easily marginalized."

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/ameri...than-mael-for-smearing-jets-oday-aboushi.html

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