One question I frequently get asked by my fellow Americans is, “Why don’t Muslims and Arabs denounce violence?” This is incredible because I know that they do so all the time. The question comes from a lingering racism that is fueled by naivete on the part of most Americans.

Coverage of violence by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers follows a distinct pattern in which the Israelis defend their actions and describe the victims as “terrorists.”

Last year was the deadliest for Israeli violence against Palestinians since 2014, when Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and killed more than 2,310 Palestinians, according to B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights watchdog.

Of the 435 members of the US House of Representatives, fewer than 10 percent vote to support Palestinian rights and only slightly more support pro-Arab issues. Those speaking out for Palestine in Congress are a small and lonely group.

On March 30, 2018, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began holding weekly protests against Israel’s harsh blockade.

There is no doubt that America is a polarized nation, with the two sides of the political spectrum now so far apart they cannot even see each other.

All violence is terrible and should be condemned, whether it is by a Palestinian Muslim or Christian or an Israeli Jew.

In an interview this week, Omar Yaghi explained how he had spent his life pursuing his passion of chemistry. I don’t understand all the principles and equations, but basically he talked about coming up with a process to harvest water from the atmosphere.