Xenophobia | Watching America

Japan: National Guard Shooting in US Capital: Misguided Incitement of Anti-Foreign Doctrine

Dorothy Phoenix - December 12, 2025. Published in Tokyo Shimbun

[H]ad Trump not mobilized the guard for political purposes, the shooting might not have happened.

Mexico : Back to the Future

Stephen Routledge - February 24, 2025. Published in El Heraldo de México

This effort evokes the hunt for communists and homosexuals after World War II.

South Africa: How Trump’s Demagoguery Fuels the Global Rise of Xenophobia and Political Intolerance

Robin Koerner - September 26, 2024. Published in Mail and Guardian

Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, have now taken the racism of the Republican Right into a new realm of the grotesque.

Mexico: Anti-Immigrant Fundamentalism in Florida

Tom Walker - July 12, 2023. Published in El Heraldo de México

Florida Senate Bill 1718 is one more example of Republicans using immigrants as cannon fodder

China: Ironic for US Propaganda Machine To Expel Foreign Journalists

Robin Koerner - August 25, 2020. Published in Global Times

Tying all Americans to an ideological chariot of xenophobia will ultimately damage the U.S.' credibility and national image.

Morocco : The Painful Reconstruction of the American Identity

Robin Koerner - August 13, 2020. Published in Article19

Guatemala: The Central American Nightmare

Robin Koerner - February 7, 2020. Published in Prensa Libre

These people have no choice but to leave their homes.

Bolivia: Arms, Death and Xenophobia

Robin Koerner - August 13, 2019. Published in La Razón

These killings highlight the nefarious consequences arising from hateful and racist speeches ... by influential people such as the president.

Spain: Let’s Make America White Again

Stephen Routledge - August 5, 2019. Published in El Pais

[T]he witch hunt has returned.

France: Racism: The Force Behind Trump’s Politics

Robin Koerner - July 27, 2019. Published in Le Nouvel Observateur

[Donald Trump] has built his political career on racism.

Spain: Fake News: The Press Can Stop Extremists

Robin Koerner - February 1, 2019. Published in El Pais

Social media has democratized access to the public sphere, but big media continues to have an enormous weight when it comes time to define the issues on which citizens focus their attention.

Dominican Republic: The KKKlan Infiltrator

Robin Koerner - November 5, 2018. Published in El Caribe

In the final scene, [Spike] Lee again leaves us with real clips with the intention of moving the viewer to reject the KKK’s hatred and to see its repugnance.

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