Stephen E. Herbits , the Secretary-General of the New York – based World Jewish Congress ( WJC ) made several racist remarks and ethnic slurs in an internal memo against the president of the European Jewish Congress Pierre Besnainou : " He is French . Do n't discount this . He can not be trusted ... He is Tunisian . Do not discount this either . He works like an Arab . " The WJC in Israel has condemned the statements as both hateful and racist . " It appears that the struggle in the World Jewish Congress has now turned racist , said Knesset member Shai Hermesh ( Kadima ) , who heads the Israeli board of the WJC . Instead of creating unity among the Jewish people , this organization is just creating division and hatred . " In 2004 , American radio host Michael Savage described Arabs as " non-humans " , said that Americans want the U.S. to " drop a nuclear weapon " on an Arab country , and advocated that people in the Middle East be " forcibly converted to Christianity " to " turn them into human beings " . Savage characterized Israel as " a little country surrounded by racist , fascist bigots who do n't want anyone but themselves living in that hell hole called the Middle East " . Expressions of anti-Arabism in the United States intensified following the 2009 Fort Hood shooting , which was perpetrated by Nidal Malik Hasan , a Palestinian Arab American . In 2010 , the proposed development of an Islamic community center containing a mosque near the World Trade Center site provoked further widespread expressions of virulent anti-Arabism in the United States
2009 Fort Hood shooting
2009 Fort Hood shooting
Anti-Arabism