Erik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality.
PATERSON, N.J. — A week into the war between Israel and Hamas, Raed Odeh said his barber shop, Palestine Hair Salon, received a menacing phone call from an unknown number. “‘We’re going to come burn you. We’re going to burn your family,’” Odeh, a married father of five, said the caller threatened. His business — on a thriving strip in Paterson, New Jersey, renamed Palestine Way and bursting with halal meat markets and shawarma shops — has been a magnet for harassing voicemails.
Two Palestinian American members of the Board of Education endured backlash at a 2021 board meeting when they voiced concern for Palestinian rights, prompting criticism from Jewish groups, including national organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Center and StandWithUS, for “antisemitic rhetoric.
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