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Obama to Israel: Take whatever you want
May 28th, 20110 President Barack Obama delivers remarks at AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC.In 2008, Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, pandered to pro-Israeli voters and Israel by promising in a speech addressed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), that Jerusalem would...
Egypt to open Gaza border crossing permanently
May 28th, 20110 Egypt reopened border, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in four years.CAIRO — Egypt will open the Rafah border crossing on a daily basis starting this weekend in a bid to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip, the official MENA news agency reported on Wednesday. Palestinians...Arab Spring solidarity defies national boundaries
VANCOUVER (IPS) — Ever since the ousting of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, ordinary citizens have been leading uprisings all over North Africa and the Middle East against unwanted rulers. But what is now known as the "Arab Awakening" is not confined to people resisting within their own borders....
Hizbullah urges Syrians to back Assad regime
May 28th, 20110 Supporters of Lebanon's Hizbullah gesture and wave Hezbollah flags as they listen to a televised address by their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a rally marking Resistance and Liberation Day in Lebanese village of Nabi sheet, in Bekaa, May 25, 2011, commemorating the 11th anniversary of...Libyan PM to propose immediate ceasefire
Libya's Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi speaks during a news conference in Tripoli May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Louafi LarbiLONDON — Moamer Gaddafi's Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi will send international leaders a message proposing an immediate UN-monitored ceasefire in Libya, Britain's...
Street battles raise specter of civil war in Yemen
May 28th, 20110 Armed tribesmen loyal to Yemeni tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar patrol outside his house in Sanaa May 26, 2011. Dozens of Yemenis were killed in overnight gun battles in the capital, government officials said on Thursday, as fighting aimed at ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade-long...
Palestinians call Netanyahu conditions “war”
May 28th, 20110 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out what he called his vision for peace with the Palestinians Tuesday, but listed a set of conditions the Palestinians immediately called "a declaration of war." Speaking before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress that capped five...
U.S. launches global diaspora initiative
May 28th, 20110 WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week announced that the State Department was adding a fourth "D" to its toolbox of Diplomacy, Development and Defense: Diaspora. Marking an historic shift in the agency's view of global migrants, Clinton spoke at the opening of a...
Arab Knesset member questions Israel’s “democracy” at local event
May 28th, 20110 Keynote Speaker Haneen Zoabi at Wednesday's American Muslims for Palestine banquet in Dearborn at Greenfield Manor. PHOTO: Nafeh AbuNab/American Elite StudiosDEARBORN - While addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said only Israel's...
How to lose friends and alienate Muslims, GOP edition
May 28th, 20110 In late January 2001, the day after George W. Bush was sworn into office, a group of conservative politicos including recently retired House Speaker Newt Gingrich gathered at Grover Norquist's Washington, D,C. office for a meeting with influential faith leaders. That, in itself, was hardly...Gov. Snyder says Michigan’s anti-immigration bill isunnecessary and divisive
DETROIT — Speaking at the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's annual public policy breakfast, Gov. Rick Snyder expressed opposition towards Michigan's proposed anti-immigration bill. Following Snyder's speech, which noted the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans, local...Immigration group preparing for awareness month
DEARBORN — The Alliance for Immigrants Rights & Reform (AIR) will be holding three important meetings in the month of June in regards to immigration awareness. The events will help educate immigrants and community members of their rights and acknowledge the struggles that immigrants face...
Unfinished ADC Center for Civil and Human Rights posted forsale due to funding obstacles
May 28th, 20110 The ADC Center for Civil and Human Rights was recently put up for sale due to financial issues.DEARBORN – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan announced this week that the property and building for the unfinished American-Arab Center for Civil and Human Rights (ACCHR)...
U.S. boat ‘The Audacity of Hope’ to sail to Gaza in June
May 28th, 20110 NEW YORK— The U.S. Boat to Gaza campaign announced earlier this month that it will send a U.S. flagged boat, "The Audacity of Hope," to Gaza in late June as part of the International Freedom Flotilla II. The passengers on the boat, which will sail from a port in the Mediterranean, are U.S. citizens from many...
ACLU-Michigan seeks ICE records on illegal detention of U.S.citizen
May 28th, 20110 DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a Freedom of Information Act request this week seeking records from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding the illegal detention of a U.S. citizen and his mother who is a legal permanent resident. The Grand......
The sacred and the secular — promoting Muslim democracy
CHICAGO (IPS) — The presence of religion in public space challenges our ideas about the roles of faith in our lives and politics. Over the last centuries, proponents of secularisation have claimed that as societies modernise, the role of religion in public and private life diminishes. For them,...California mosque fire ruled arson
SACRAMENTO, CA — The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) this week said an April 23 fire at a Stockton, Calif., mosque has been ruled arson. CAIR-SV is asking that a possible bias motive for the fire be investigated. Law enforcement authorities......
Appeals court rules against Dearborn in Arab Festival case
DETROIT — A federal court says it was illegal to bar a Christian evangelist from passing leaflets at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn last year according to various reports. The appeals court ruled 2-1 Thursday in the case of George Saieg of Anaheim, Calif. The decision comes less...Man accused of plotting mosque attack to have mental hearing
DETROIT — Roger Stockham, the 63-year-old man who was arrested outside of the Islamic Center of America for plotting to detonate highly-explosive fireworks earlier this year, has been ordered to undergo a mental competency test by Wayne County Judge Bruce Morrow. Stockham, who has a mental...Peace activists hold celebration of international flotilla
ANN ARBOR — Ann Arbor-based Michigan Peaceworks will sponsor a peace picnic and demonstration on Friday, June 24 to celebrate the launch of the international humanitarian flotilla bringing food and medicine to Gaza. The peace picnic will take place near Gallup Park in Ann Arbor. The...
Snyder’s opposition to Arizona-style law applauded by immigrants rights groups
May 21st, 20110 DETROIT - On Thursday morning at the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s annual public policy breakfast at the Detroit Athletic Club, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder fielded questions regarding proposed anti-immigrant legislation in Michigan.After a speech which highlighted the contributions of Hispanic and Latino businesses to......
Chief Judge Rosen swears in Hammoud as Assistant U.S.Attorney in federal courtroom with large community participation
From left to right are: LIBC Founder Ned Fawaz, Publisher of The Arab American News Osama Siblani, LAHC Founder Ali Jawad, Chief Judge Gerald Rosen, Asst. U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Abed Hammoud, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, LAHC President attorney Sam Salamey and...Islamic Center of America raises funds, honors men forexemplary community leadership
Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad receives in recognition of providing community safety from outgoing ICA Board of Directors Chairman Dr. Afif Jawad (C) and newly-elected Chairman Jamal Dakroub. PHOTOS: Nafeh AbuNab/American Elite StudiosDEARBORN — Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad and......
Ron Paul announces run for president on “Good MorningAmerica”
AUSTIN, TX – Texas Rep. Ron Paul announced last Friday that he will run for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Paul, who has distinguished himself from more mainstream candidates by running in the past as a Libertarian, speaking out against the Federal Reserve private banking...
Can Obama walk the walk?
May 20th, 20110 President Obama's historic speech this week at the State Department on the political changes sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa made it very clear that facilitating the Arab World's transition to freedom and democracy is a priority concern for the United States. Saying so, and simultaneously releasing......