A Senate hearing on hate crime becomes a horror show for mother of slain child
In the front row of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday (Sept. 17) sat Hanaan Shahin, the mother of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian American who was brutally killed last October amid escalating anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic feeling in the aftermath of Hamas’ attack on Israel.