The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization defending the rights of Arab American communities.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
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Due to the escalating frequency of Customs and Border Protection abusing its authority at ports of entry and seizing and searching the electronic devices of people the government has it out for, we @adc are launching a national reporting portal to get a better sense of how often this is happening and the surrounding circumstances. Link below
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⭕️ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser:
“The more I studied Zionism, the more I spent time there, the more I realized that every inch of Israel is Palestine. It was always Palestine.
Jews were never not allowed to live there as equal citizens, as they are in Britain or any other Western country. But the establishment of this state really did mean this massive ethnic cleansing that was not just a one-off.”
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The United States was founded on the principle of religious freedom for all Americans, regardless of their faith or background. Article VI of the Constitution is unequivocal: there is no religious test for public office. Imposing sectarian litmus tests to disqualify candidates based on their faith is a direct assault on the pluralistic values and constitutional guardrails that define our democratic republic.
Senator Moreno's remarks were not only bigoted against American Muslims, but also Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, and everyone else who does not share his understanding of Christianity. Every Senator should renounce his anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and un-American remarks.
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NEW: Netanyahu or not, we must not let Israel’s elections become an excuse for U.S. lawmakers to go back to “business as usual” with the Israeli government while it continues a genocide, warns IPS scholar @PhyllisBennis on @AJEnglish.
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The government really doesn’t want us to know what they’re doing with our phones. They just alerted me they are intending to respond to the judge’s order to show cause, meaning they are doubling down on maintaining the redactions
Once again, @matthew_petti of @reason does a fantastic job covering our case. As he noted, Judge Brinkema’s order to the government to provide unredacted declarations establishing what was done with our clients’ phones and laptops and what data was taken off them is significant. “The Court finds that most of the redacted information is not privileged law enforcement information and should not be sealed,” she declared. Read article below
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We are finally getting a look behind the government's covert efforts to access the contents of Americans' phones by seizing them at the border, without a warrant or even individualized suspcison.
In @adc's latest phone seizure case, Imam v. Mullin, the court in the Eastern District of Virginia ordered the gov't to provide information about precisely what it did with our clients' phones and laptops from declarants with firsthand knowledge. The government submitted declarations that appeared to redact the relevant information, including the basis for the seizures, as well as what was done with Plaintiff Imam's devices.
Judge Brinkema just found these redactions unwarranted and ordered the government to unseal most of them.
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Once again, @matthew_petti of @reason does a fantastic job covering our case. As he noted, Judge Brinkema’s order to the government to provide unredacted declarations establishing what was done with our clients’ phones and laptops and what data was taken off them is significant. “The Court finds that most of the redacted information is not privileged law enforcement information and should not be sealed,” she declared. Read article below
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"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s."
Incredible reporting here from @awinston
wired.com/story/ice-is-runni…
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Portrait of a people "resistant to Palestinian pain but traumatized from war, fed up with the world"
In my interviews with Israelis, a portrait has emerged: a people defiant but weary, resistant to Palestinian pain but traumatized from war, fed up with the world but fearful of global isolation, and in a tug-of-war with themselves.
Read and listen:
npr.org/2026/10/25/g-s1-1495…
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Morning Joe gets emotional over RFK Jr.'s racist anti-Arab remarks
Bobby Kennedy was the reason I got involved in politics and I told Jr. that. He understood that we were stronger as were more diverse.
It's hard to even imagine how ashamed he would be of his son for denigrating over a billion people because of their faith.
Specifically when Bobby Kennedy talked about how America had to move to becoming a country that moved beyond prejudices based on faith and race.
This is what RFK Jr. did when he campaigned with Mike Rogers, another guy that I've known, liked, respected—who's running an abhorrent, racist, bigoted campaign.
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If the Interior Minister of Japan started committing war crimes with our tax dollars we'd get to know him.
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Absolutely thrilled to share my interview with @JeninYounesEsq, President & Legal Director of @adc
We discuss the legal mechanics of modern censorship, how speech rights are affected today, and Jenin's litigation efforts protecting civil liberties
youtu.be/1g-P6Fv-Sfw
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“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect me.”
It’s young Palestinian men who put their lives on the line every day to defend their families, homes, and even foreign journalists from violent Israeli settlers and soldiers.
“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect … me and my rescuers from being attacked again,” Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.
Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.
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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israel has committed the crime against humanity of "extermination" in the West Bank, while continuing to commit "genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, United Nations-mandated investigators said on Monday ➡️ u.afp.com/SywJ
ALT File photo shows Israeli security forces patrolling the area where the houses of the two Palestinian gunmen who killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three others are located, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron on October 23, 2026.
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UPDATE in Imam v Mullin: at an emergency hearing held today in federal court in Alexandria, Judge Brinkema ordered the government to submit information by CoB Monday about what it did with the plaintiffs’ phones and laptops during their unlawful seizure.
She expressed concern about what happened here, particularly because Mr. Imam works as a psychiatric nurse and his devices contain confidential patient records and information, and Ms. Mansoor’s devices contain her work product as a software engineer as well as photos of her without her hijab,and the thought of strangers viewing them caused her great distress.
The government stated today at the hearing that they had recently returned the items, although they hadn’t yet reached plaintiffs.
This is one of several cases in which @adc is challenging the CBP’s seizure of electronic devices at the border, which is escalating in frequency and appears targeted and punitive. As we and other groups argue and are urging the Supreme Court to hold, such action violates the Fourth Amendment and should be prohibited without a warrant
We @adc are again on the frontlines of the fight against CBP’s abuse of its authority at the border. The agency has been using the border search exception to punish and retaliate against journalists, activists and lawyers who express views contra to the Administrations— as it did in our other two cases on behalf of @MaxBlumenthal and lawyer Jalal Shehadeh—by insisting on accessing the contents of their phones, and seizing those devices when such access was refused. Our new client Muhammad Imam protested, when he explained that as a psychiatric nurse, his phone contained confidential patient data and so he refused to permit CBP access. CBP punitively took his phone and laptop, as well as those belonging to his wife, and revoked his global entry status. We have hearing tomorrow in the eastern district of Virginia, where we will demand an explanation for CBP’s unlawful conduct. Read article by @matthew_petti, who has done an amazing job following this issue, below
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I obtained 140 pages of internal State Department emails from when I was being imprisoned and interrogated by the IDF. The correspondence reveals that U.S. officials referred to me as “kidnapped” by the Israeli military while explicitly refusing to consider me "wrongfully detained." Officials were informed of day-long interrogations and made aware of my detention in a notoriously abusive Israeli prison. The emails show no U.S. effort to intervene on my behalf, only a focus on PR and limiting political fallout.
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“As in previous years, security forces are working to facilitate a safe and orderly olive harvest season”
Earlier today, a number of harvesters, accompanied by dozens of individuals, arrived to conduct an uncoordinated olive harvest in an area near Beitar Illit. Harvesting in this area requires a request to be submitted to the relevant authorities in advance of the start of the olive harvest season. This coordination is necessary to ensure the security of the area and maintain public order.
Due to the security risk posed by conducting an uncoordinated harvest near an Israeli community, IDF soldiers, Border Police forces in Judea and Samaria, and officers from the Judea and Samaria District Police arrived at the scene and detained those present.
The landowner was informed that he must coordinate the olive harvest on his plot of land and was provided with the relevant contact information to arrange a harvest at a later date.
It should be emphasized that authorized olive harvests have taken place and continue to take place. To date, approximately 100 coordinated harvests have been conducted across Judea and Samaria, yielding many dozens of tons of produce, with security provided and coordination by the security forces, without any unusual incidents.
In areas designated for coordinated harvesting, only harvesters will be permitted to enter, solely for the purpose of harvesting.
As in previous years, security forces are working to facilitate a safe and orderly olive harvest season, with a firm commitment to enabling harvesting without unusual incidents or interruptions, alongside their ongoing defensive and counterterrorism missions.
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I’m obsessed with this fascistic Israeli cop who shoved me twice, cut his elbow, stared at it for a while, then tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at his boo-boo, and said, “See what happen?”
Twelve soldiers + police showed up in Taybeh olive field to stop a single Palestinian olive farmer from harvesting a single tree. After harassing him for 30+ minutes, a car full of some sort of special police officers stormed in and violently arrested the journalist/activist @the_andrey_x. One of the arresting officers shoved me, then showed me his bloody elbow and said I did it to him. (So if they take me next, that’s probably their pretense.) Second and third videos are other angle of the shove (including it here to be safe). Fourth video is from just before—the major military operation to stop a farmer from picking olives. Fascist state.
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🧵 The Israeli settlers’ violent assault on American photojournalist and Washington Post contributor Heidi Levine on Oct. 16 follows a wave of similar incidents against Palestinian and foreign journalists in the occupied West Bank.
In the first eight months of 2026, Israeli settlers assaulted, harassed, or obstructed at least 35 journalists in the West Bank.
The Trump Administration has stated that it has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens abroad. Given Israel’s longstanding failure to deliver accountability for attacks on journalists over the last 20+ years, the U.S. government must ensure that proper investigations are conducted and perpetrators are held accountable. U.S. targeted sanctions and other meaningful consequences must also follow.
Impunity for crimes against journalists must end. Journalism is #NotACrime. cpj.org/2026/10/american-pho…
Here's how U.S. politicians have responded 🪡 ⤵️
