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Three years ago today, 6-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times in his home in Plainfield Township, IL. His mother, Hanaan Shahin, was stabbed and choked. It took her weeks to recover. The man who attacked them was their landlord. While he stabbed them, he yelled, “You Muslims must die.”

Wadea was a Palestinian-American kid who loved basketball. His father called him an “All-American boy” who was always smiling and full of love.

Wadea didn’t die in a vacuum. He was killed one week after October 7, at a time when American politicians and pundits were racing to dehumanize Palestinians on every channel.