Now is the time for conscience. Now is the time for moral clarity. Every state must reject the Palestine Erasure Act — and any effort to make complicity the law of the land.
People of conscience in Arkansas and anywhere else this legislation pops up should write their state lawmakers demanding they oppose it, and support organisations dedicated to defending Palestinian rights and fighting codification of religious nationalist propaganda into American law.
Ismail Allison serves as National Communications Manager at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation.