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

Berry went before the Senate to discuss the important issue of hate crimes, only to receive a torrent of abuse. She should be ...

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

Maya Berry came to testify as an expert on hate crimes. She ended up the target of blatant anti-Arab racism by Republican ...

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

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 ...

The Louisiana Republican sparked an outcry after making the remark to an Arab American activist during a Senate hearing on ...

Robert McCaw of the the Council on American-Islamic Relations says Kennedy should face censure for weaponizing a hateful anti ...

On Tuesday, Republican Sen. John Kennedy provided a master class on delivering a racist line of questioning—and during a ...

That, sadly, has finally happened to Kennedy. Last week, he crossed a line: He mockingly used Islamophobic taunts when questioning Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, during ...

Sen. John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana questioned Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, asking her whether she supported Hamas ...

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