Arab American

Co-chair Sherene Razack, a distinguished professor and Penny Kanner endowed chair in women’s studies, pointed out that her group has published three reports on alleged racist and bias incidents against Arab American, Palestinian American and Muslim American students, staff and faculty at UCLA, including one in February, but has yet to meet with Frenk on the matters.

The people in Dearborn and other Arab American enclaves—many of whom spent months telling professional Democrats what was happening in their communities and begging for a change in policy toward the war in Gaza—are watching the blame game with resignation.

James Zogby, the founder of the Arab American Institute, has spent decades working within the Democratic Party.

Zogby is still active in Democratic leadership and says he is urging insiders not to scapegoat Arab American voters and to try to understand how painful the past year and a half has been for them.

Hagekhalil was the district’s first Arab American general manager.