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White on Paper, Invisible by Design

About This Episode: In this solo episode, Habuba breaks down how bureaucratic erasure becomes physical violence against Palestinians and Arabs in America. From census forms to FBI databases, hospital records to immigration files, she reveals the deliberate system designed to make us vanish—not by accident, but by architecture.

In This Episode: Habuba takes you through:

  • Why that "White" checkbox on forms is about more than paperwork—it's about who lives and who dies
  • The century-long legal manipulation of Arab "whiteness," shifting whenever it served American interests
  • How the FBI deliberately erased anti-Arab hate crimes from official records for 23 years while violence skyrocketed
  • Why Palestinian Americans like Shi ... 
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