# Terry Hansen Citizen author of an unsolicited multi-government letter dated 6/4/2025 8:04 AM titled "Anti-Palestinianism in American politics," addressed primarily to Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders ("Dear Governor Huckabee Sanders:") and distributed across the Arkansas state and local government correspondence channels. Hansen sent the letter To: six Governor's-office addresses (jaime.land, gretchen.conger, judd.deere, jamie.barker, chafer.stanley, sam.dubke at governor.arkansas.gov) and CC'd nine Little Rock municipal addresses (kpruitt, tcooney, charvey, ajackson, bnewson, jowen, hphillips, asadler, mayorscott at littlerock.gov), the Arkansas Attorney General's office ([email protected], [email protected]), the Auditor's-office shared mailbox ([email protected]), the Arkansas Crime Information Center ([email protected]), and [email protected]. The letter reached Auditor's office Chief of Staff Melissa Corrigan via the shared-mailbox routing and was deleted from her mailbox; the Outlook Deleted-Items retention captured it for the FOIA production at [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]]. The letter is a substantive moral critique of anti-Palestinian rhetoric by US political figures. Hansen cites named statements from Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee), Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and President Donald Trump (June 2024 presidential debate use of "Palestinian" as a racial slur applied to President Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer). Hansen invokes the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Leahy Law, and the murder of six-year-old Palestinian American Wadea Al-Fayoume in Chicago by Joseph M. Czuba. Hansen names Trump's nomination of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel and quotes Huckabee's stated position that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian," along with similar statements by Martin Oliner (US Holocaust Memorial Council appointee). Hansen quotes Arkansas-based pediatrician Dr. Ahmad Yousef on his Gaza patients. The letter concludes: "When U.S. officials openly dehumanize Palestinians, deny their existence, or equate them collectively with terrorists, they lay the groundwork for the acceptance of mass violence and collective punishment. ... The atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza, such as bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid, are enabled by the acceptance of anti-Palestinianism in our public debate. To stop this cycle, we must confront the deep-rooted prejudice that sustains it." The letter reached the Auditor's office two days after the 6/2/2025 ATRS Board vote authorizing Resolution 2025-22 to invest up to $50 million in Israel bonds. Whether the Auditor's office routed it elsewhere, replied to it, or only deleted it is not knowable from this batch (the [email protected] shared-mailbox Sent-Items folder is absent from the production). The disposition documented is deletion in Corrigan's mailbox view. Hansen joins the wiki's documented citizen-correspondent body of evidence alongside [[badria-mryyan]], [[john-rollans]], and [[jennifer-lenow]] as a citizen voice reaching the Auditor's-office or ATRS through unsolicited correspondence on Israel-related state action. Hansen is the first documented citizen voice in the wiki critically engaging with the political framework underlying Israel Bonds purchases rather than with the procurement procedure or financial mechanics. ## Evidence > "Anti-Palestinian racism, also referred to as anti-Palestinianism, is defined by the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association as 'a form of anti-Arab racism that silences, excludes, erases, stereotypes, defames or dehumanizes Palestinians or their narratives.'" > Terry Hansen to multi-government distribution, Anti-Palestinianism in American politics.pdf p.1, 6/4/2025 8:04 AM > "Furthermore, Trump chose former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel. Huckabee has said that 'there is no such thing as a Palestinian.' He also claims that there are no such things as a West Bank, settlements or an occupation." > Terry Hansen letter, Anti-Palestinianism in American politics.pdf p.2 > "When U.S. officials openly dehumanize Palestinians, deny their existence, or equate them collectively with terrorists, they lay the groundwork for the acceptance of mass violence and collective punishment." > Terry Hansen letter, Anti-Palestinianism in American politics.pdf p.2 > "The atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza, such as bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid, are enabled by the acceptance of anti-Palestinianism in our public debate. To stop this cycle, we must confront the deep-rooted prejudice that sustains it." > Terry Hansen letter, Anti-Palestinianism in American politics.pdf p.2 ## Cross-References [[melissa-corrigan]] Chief of Staff whose Deleted-Items folder captured the letter [[sarah-huckabee-sanders]] primary addressee of the letter [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]] source page [[badria-mryyan]] [[john-rollans]] [[jennifer-lenow]] other documented citizen correspondents to the Auditor's office or ATRS