United Voices is demanding state and federal law enforcement investigate death threats targeting Tanveer Patel, a Muslim candidate running for Hoover City Council in Alabama, as hate crimes — warning that threatening a candidate because of her faith is an attack on democracy itself.
On August 10, someone targeted the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Greenwood, Indiana with hateful graffiti in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. United Voices stands with the Hindu community and calls for a full investigation — because an attack on any house of worship is an attack on all of us.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland was defaced with neo-Nazi graffiti including swastikas. United Voices stands with the Jewish community and calls for a full hate crime investigation — because targeting a space dedicated to Holocaust memory is an attack on the very idea that history must not be repeated.
Washington, D.C. – [2/17/25] – United Voices calls on law enforcement to bring federal hate crime and domestic terrorism charges against Mordechai Brafman, a pro-Israel extremist who attempted to murder two men in Miami Beach after reportedly believing they were Palestinian.Brafman, 27, allegedly made a U-turn, stopped in front of the victims’ vehicle, and fired […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., [11/26/2023] – United Voices, an organization advocating for justice, empowering people of color and amplifying voices of marginalized communities, strongly condemns the recent shooting of three Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont. The incident, which occurred on Saturday evening, underscores the urgent need for collective action against rising hate and violence targeting Arab and […]
United Voices, a prominent national organization dedicated to justice, peace, democracy, and civil rights, condemns in the strongest terms the horrifying hate crime murder of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and the stabbing of his mother in Plainfield, Illinois. This tragic incident is a stark reminder of the urgent need to address and combat hatred within […]
A Hardin County girl was suspended last fall following an incident after another student attempted to remove her hijab – a punishment her mother and the Council on American-Islamic Relations say was harsher than what was given to the boy they say initiated the confrontation. Kenneisha Turner Wright, said her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for […]
Emily Claire Hari’s attorney says she was influenced by misinformation and conspiracies published by right-wing blogs like Breitbart, World Net Daily and Jihad Watch, and amplified by unnamed elected officials, according to court documents. “This degrading, anti-Muslim, and Islamophobic rhetoric and misinformation has spread throughout the United States over the past several years through social […]
