During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy accused an Arab American civil rights ...

We speak with Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, after she faced racist and hostile ...

La., faces backlash from civil rights groups after telling an Arab American witness to “hide your head in a bag” following ...

Berry says the experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If ...

Arab American witness before you and saying, 'You support Hamas.' I do not support Hamas," Maya Berry told the GOP senator.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and an Arab American witness got into a back-and-forth exchange Tuesday after Kennedy repeatedly ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told an Arab American witness that she should “hide [her] head in a bag” after repeatedly asking ...

Asked after the hearing if there was anything about the exchange with Kennedy she wanted to note, Berry said, “It’s ...

Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy accused an Arab American activist of being a member of Hamas, in an incredibly racist ...

"You should hide your head in a bag," the Louisiana Republican sniped at Maya Berry of the Arab American Institute, after ...

Sen. John Neely Kennedy used a hearing about hate crimes to accuse Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry of supporting terrorists.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and an Arab American witness got into a back-and-forth exchange Tuesday after Kennedy repeatedly accused her of sympathizing with Hamas and other terrorist groups.