Another Award Ray Hanania did not win

The vicious anti-Arab site KabobFest has a sloppy record of reporting and a history of ugly attacks against anyone who happens to be better writers than them.

This week, Ray Hanania was awarded another journalism Award that the Kabobfest literary terrorists and losers will slam, once again, while pretending to care about Palestinians at the so-called Palestine Center in Washington D.C.


The Society of Professional Journalists's largest Chapter, the Chicago Headline Club, gave Hanania a prestigious Lisagor Award for in-depth reporting. Last summer, Hanania detailed how a Palestinian Arab Muslim grocery store owner complained he was being harassed because of his Arab heritage, but no one was listening. (You know the losers at KabobFest were not listening because they don't care about Arabs in America and neither does the so-called Palestine Center).

Naim Massad and his family were arrested -- literally handcuffed -- when someone complained that they were selling their "Arab" food through a back door while waiting for the town's inspector's to allow them to re-open. Someone told police they put a "sign written in Arabic" on the front window telling Arab customers to go around the back door.

There was a sign. It said in Arabic that the store would soon be re-opened but had been closed by the village. When police finally translated the "evidence" -- after handcuffing the owner, his wife and his son and taking them to the jail lock-up for overnight processing -- they discovered the sign didn't tell anyone to go to the back of the store and buy food. And mysteriously, the sign disappeared from the evidence room.

But 911 tapes clearly identified one of the police officers telling dispatch that he would get to another emergency call after he went to the store. He told the dispatcher they were going to shut down an "Arab" store and it wouldn't take too long at all. Many of the 911 tapes were not released so we don't know the depth of what was said.

So tell the Kabobfesters who could care less about American Arabs to crawl back in to their cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan or wherever they live under a rock. Because while they are slandering other American Arabs, some are fighting for American Arab rights.

-- Makblooba Man