How to Use Islamophobia in a Sentence

Islamophobia

noun
  • Many schools have been shaken by protests over the war in Gaza, as well as by complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobia over the last few months.
    Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And one of my deep concerns is the alarming increase of Islamophobia and antisemitism and other forms of hate speech since the war here at home.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Nihad Awad: Well, look, to me and to all of us, anti-Semitism is no different than Islamophobia.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
  • But the wave of Islamophobia in the last months of the year had a significant impact on the workplace and education settings.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • On today's The Excerpt podcast, 2023 was a record year for Islamophobia.
    USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The reason the mayor needs a view on the war in Gaza is that its aftershocks play out on London’s streets—in protests and counterprotests, in rising antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Welcoming Muslim and Arab perspectives in the media would go a long way to both informing the public and cutting through the hype of Islamophobia.
    Hafiz Rashid, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
  • With more people speaking out on anti-Black Islamophobia online and in real life, the rate of reporting is bound to increase.
    Hannan Mohamud, refinery29.com, 30 July 2021
  • Reports of antisemitism and Islamophobia have piled up amid the conflict.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This creeping Islamophobia is now the dominant theme of Mr. Salam’s writings.
    Hari Kumar, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • On Thursday, possibly in a bid to course correct, the White House announced somewhat vague plans to develop a strategy to counter Islamophobia.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Karine talked about what's going on college campuses, but same goes for Islamophobia.
    Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Mark Kelly Islamophobia is again the obsession of progressives and the media.
    Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Islamophobia was fostered by not only Partition but by the way Pakistan supported jihadi groups in the two-thousands.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That’s the rallying cry for many of those who feel shocked by skyrocketing antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses and K-12 schools.
    Boaz Dvir, TIME, 6 May 2024
  • Biden's strategy to address Islamophobia is one of several to confront forms of bias and discrimination in the U.S.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In late 2021, the House of Representatives passed a measure that would create a special envoy to monitor and combat Islamophobia worldwide, but the Senate has never acted on it.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
  • There also has been a rise in Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment and attacks nationwide.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • The confrontation has renewed the world’s long-dormant attention to the Palestinian cause and stoked heated emotional debates and global spikes in antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The sociopolitical conflicts at the root of the two protest eras are not precisely the same, however — and in today’s campus environment, students are also sounding the alarm about a sharp uptick in both antisemitism and Islamophobia since Oct 7.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 1 May 2024
  • The trivia also comes amid heightened tensions on many college campuses related to the Israel-Gaza war and amid concerns of rising antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    Jacob Lev, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • College campuses nationwide have been roiled by protests, antisemitism and Islamophobia since the start of the war in Gaza two months ago, putting university administrators across the nation on the defensive.
    TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There were also references to both rising antisemitism and Islamophobia from Democrats.
    Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 7 May 2024
  • Officials are also expected to more broadly discuss concerns about Islamophobia in the US.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, here at home, Islamophobia and anti-Muslim incidents have surged.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
  • The Biden administration’s response to the criticism has been noticeably tepid; their most recent proposal to create a formal strategy to combat Islamophobia is likely to fall flat as long as there are no calls for a cease-fire.
    Hafiz Rashid, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Mone's latest statement condemned both antisemitism and Islamophobia, saying UWM should be welcoming to all.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
  • In the months since Oct. 7, numerous universities have faced criticism for their handling of both antisemitism and Islamophobia on campuses.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Across the art world, people traded accusations of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and censorship.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 14 June 2024
  • The panic that ensued following Thunberg’s photo with the octopus is somewhat understandable, in light of the fact that both Islamophobia and antisemitism are steadily increasing.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023

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