Absurd that some people seem relieved to find that a Palestinian might have blue eyes - makes 'em human after all!
I think you misunderstand. They are confused that an Arab child would have these features. Dark or olive skin and brown or brown eyes are the norm.
The hatred is not towards the child, but the family that would do this.
I have just come back from Jordan, and there was a lot of anti-Palestinian feeling there, as well. (A "we don't want any more of them here" thing. "They are just trying to run away from their problems and come here ... Turn them back at the border ... ")
Aside from exiles from what is now Saudi Arabia, many bedoiuns, and some Circas, aren't all Jordanians Palestinian? I mean untill 1923, Jordan was 2/3 of Palestine. After 1948 and 1967 hundreds of thousands of Arabs from the other side of the Jordan river came to Jordan.
Is this an ethnic problem or simply a poor people fed up with immigrants?
But there is some sort of rising tide of racism in all directions. It is so general, and roused by so many causes, that it is hard to explain.
Humans eveolved in small related groups. Racism is part of the human condition.
I think that there is also a huge amount of latent anti-Semitisim on the Christian right, waiting for the moment to appear. At the moment, these forces appear to be quite pro-Israel, but if American policy in the M.E. sees serious difficulties, I think that Israel will suddenly become the scapgoat.
For the past 40 years, the issue has been Christians loving Jews to demographic death from intermarriage and conversions. This is not to say that certain sects are still theologically anti-Jewish or that there are rascist individuals.
Should it become clear that Jews won't all convert, things might change.