Biden Admin Pays Anti-Israel Professor Thousands To Investigate How ‘Viral Memes’ Spread ‘Anti-Muslim Racism’
15th April 2024
The Biden administration is sending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to an anti-Israel professor to investigate how “viral memes” can “perpetuate gendered, anti-Muslim racism,” federal spending disclosures show.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded San Diego State University professor Amira Jarmakani $60,000 to research and write a project titled, “Weapons of Mass Dissemination: Apprehending Digital Anti-Muslim Racism,” which will address Islamophobic stereotypes in memes and images on the internet.
Jarmakani in the grant description argues such memes have the ability to perpetuate “gendered anti-Muslim racism” which leads to “domestic surveillance that can also lead to the capture and incarceration of innocent people, framed as terrorists or enemy combatants in the War on Terror.”
Explain to me how ‘Muslim’ is a race.