This Land Was Made for You and MENA
Tablet | Michelle Lind
In mid-June, the Biden Administration announced that it will consider adding a Middle East and North African (MENA) category to the U.S. Census by 2024. Lind’s article goes into the potential implications of this addition, including on affirmative action policies. “If a MENA category were to be created, then presumably Jewish Americans along with Christian and Muslim Arab Americans would become eligible for membership in the new official ‘race’—and have access to preferences accordingly.”
Among other negative impacts, Lind argues that we should “expect the MENA quota for university admissions, faculty posts, private sector jobs, and nonprofit grants to become a ceiling for Jewish and Arab Americans, not a floor.”
