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“They are depicting Arabs in a very derogatory manner--as conniving, with hook noses, as ugly--and this image has been haunting the Arab community.”
--Terri Ahwal, board member of the Detroit Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, explaining the organization’s boycott of Spencer Gifts Inc., a retail chain that is selling Halloween masks that look like PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
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