Today’s Europe is in the middle of an identity crisis, and questions who belongs to it and who should be kept out.


Hatem Bazian is co-editor and founder of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, and a s... enior lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley.
Today’s Europe is in the middle of an identity crisis, and questions who belongs to it and who should be kept out.

Today is the time to push back through building an anti-racist, inclusive, and broad coalition.

As Israel’s right wing tries to Judaise Jerusalem, Palestinians are looking to international law.
![Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2b31fb53f9a14a3fb35f192a1128d42b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Donald Trump’s xenophobia will not win him the Republican nomination.

The world is resoundingly indifferent to Palestinian suffering and demonstrates that policy of indifference daily.

Politicians and media are fuelling a bigoted atmosphere with rhetoric that problematises Islam.

Sami Al-Arian’s ordeal shows how the US has systematically criminalised pro-Palestine activists.

Who is being forgiven – the prophet, the terrorists or devout Muslims?
![A newspaper dealer sells the new edition of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015115125918707734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The day the British entered Jerusalem in 1917, Palestine’s fate was sealed.
![There was a clear urge to frame the colonisation project in Palestine in religious terms, writes Bazian [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014102694550349734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Justice for African Americans will remain an illusion as long as America fails to account for racism.
![Demonstrators chant 'hands up, don't shoot' as they protest in front of the Ferguson police department [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014112553226683734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)