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Hollywood executives back Netflix over anti-Israel ‘Fauda’ boycott
April 6th, 20180 LOS ANGELES — More than 50 Hollywood executives have thrown their support behind Netflix, which is facing a campaign by a Palestinian-led movement to drop Israeli television series “Fauda” from its streaming platform. In a letter on Tuesday to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, the executives from record labels and...
Poll: Support for Trump’s immigration stance slips among supporters
April 6th, 20180 While people who voted for President Trump are still largely supportive of his immigration policies, their approval has eroded somewhat since he took office, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. As Trump plans to send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, some key findings from an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos immigration poll are that while about...
What are our true priorities?
April 6th, 20180 There are many times we need to ask ourselves, what are our true priorities? A couple of weeks ago, thanks to social media, and fake news, we were all made aware of a suspicious flyer that supposedly originated somewhere in the United Kingdom, but no one was able to determine who was behind it. The “Punish a Muslim Day”...
After the Gaza killings, it’s time to crack down on Israel
April 6th, 20180 By Diana Buttu Israel's killing of 18 Palestinian protesters in Gaza last Friday was entirely predictable. It was also entirely avoidable. The victims were taking part in the annual Land Day march commemorating the 1976 killing of six Palestinians who were protesting Israel's confiscation of thousands of acres of their...
Fifty years after King’s assassination, U.S. civil rights leaders lament Trump’s rise
April 6th, 20180 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A half century after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leaders say they are fearful President Trump could reverse progress made on civil rights in the United States since King’s death. The racism that King’s leadership helped subdue has returned, said E. Lynn Brown, a former associate...
Ankara summit: Changing the rules of engagement
April 6th, 20180 Turkey, Iran and Russia pledge to work for stability in Syria ANKARA — Turkey, Iran and Russia pledged on Wednesday to accelerate efforts to bring stability to Syria, underlining their joint commitment to the country a day after President Trump raised the prospect of withdrawing U.S. troops. A statement by the three countries after...
Trump postpones planned summit with Gulf leaders amid ongoing dispute between U.S. allies
April 6th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration is postponing until September a summit with Gulf Arab leaders that had been planned for this spring amid an ongoing dispute between Qatar and other U.S. allies in the region, according to five U.S. officials. The decision to delay the May summit with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council...
States, cities sue U.S. to block 2020 Census citizenship question
April 6th, 20180 NEW YORK — A group of states and cities sued the Trump administration to stop it from asking people filling out 2020 census forms whether they are citizens. The lawsuit by 17 states, Washington D.C. and six cities challenged what they called last week’s “unconstitutional and arbitrary” decision by the Department of Commerce,...Former Arab American Ford engineer awarded $16.8 million in discrimination suit
DETROIT – A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan has found in favor of former Ford engineer Faisal G. Khalaf, ruling that his superiors discriminated against him — based on his heritage and accent— and fired him after he’d attempted to come forward about what had happened to him. Khalaf, who was awarded $16.8...
Ex-Ford engineer wins $16.8M discrimination lawsuit
April 5th, 20180 DEARBORN – A former Ford employee has been awarded $16.8 million after successfully suing the automaker and two of its supervisors for creating a hostile work environment and discrimination based on the employee's Arab background. Following an 11-day trial, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan ruled on March 28 in...
Shooter attacked YouTube for filtering her videos
April 4th, 20180 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with “injustice and diseases” opened fire at YouTube’s California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday. In a series of Persian and English-language online...
Trump agrees to keep U.S. troops in Syria a ‘little longer,’ but wants out
April 4th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump agreed in a National Security Council meeting this week to keep U.S. troops in Syria a little longer to defeat Islamic State but wants them out relatively soon, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. Trump did not approve a specific withdrawal timetable at Tuesday’s meeting, the...
Woman wounds three at YouTube HQ before killing herself
April 3rd, 20180 SAN BRUNO, Calif. — A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding at least three people before taking her own life, as employees of the video website scrambled into the surrounding streets for safety. Police did not release any further information on the suspect or comment on her possible...
Saudi crown prince: Israelis have right to their own land
April 3rd, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said in a published interview that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, another public sign of an apparent thawing in ties between the two countries. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation state in at least part of what they consider their...
Dearborn Heights swears in two new police officers, one firefighter
April 2nd, 20180 Dearborn Heights — The police and Fire Departments recently celebrated the addition of new employees during swearing-in ceremonies at the Dearborn Heights City Hall. Two new Police Officers were sworn in at a March 19 ceremony, and one new firefighter was sworn in at a March 26 ceremony. Police officers: Ahmed Alhalili, a 4-year......
Egypt’s Sisi wins 97 percent in election with no real opposition
April 2nd, 20180 CAIRO – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, the same proportion that the former military commander secured four years ago for his first term but with a lower turnout, official results showed on Monday. Turnout was 41 percent, despite efforts to get as many Egyptians as possible to...
The Arab American Health Initiative hosts health seminars in Dearborn
March 30th, 20180 DEARBORN — The Arab American Health Initiative (AAHI) will introduce health seminars to the community on Saturday, March 31 from 1-3 p.m. Attendees will gain hands-on experience in using an AED machine and performing bystander CPR. They should also be able to learn to recognize emergency medical conditions such as heart attacks,......
Trump ‘stands in solidarity’ with Orange County on California sanctuary law
March 30th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, President Trump praised a major California county for joining his administration's legal challenge to the state's new limits on how much local police and sheriff's departments support his rigorous deportation policy. "My Administration stands in solidarity with the brave citizens in Orange County...
National security veterans urge Trump not to scrap Iran nuclear deal
March 30th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan group of more than 100 U.S. national security experts — including nearly 50 retired military officers and more than 30 former ambassadors — is urging President Trump to remain in the Iran nuclear deal as sources say it is becoming increasingly likely he will withdraw. The statement titled "Keep...
Egypt’s Sisi heads for landslide election win with low turnout
March 30th, 20180 CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cruised toward a landslide election victory against no real opposition but early results showed a lower turnout than the vote that brought him to power in 2014, despite efforts to get more Egyptians to the polls. The vote this week had long been set to hand Sisi a second term after a crackdown...
Protests erupt as family buries police shooting victim Stephon Clark
March 30th, 20180 Sacramento, CA — Scores of Black Lives Matter activists protested in Sacramento on Thursday after the funeral of an unarmed black man who was shot dead by police in the latest such killing to spark street demonstrations in the United States. More than 100 protesters gathered outside the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office......
America is no melting pot; it is a mosaic
March 30th, 20180 By Sundus Mahdi Al-Ameen America was established as a land of hope and promise. In the turn of the 20th century, immigrants flocked from countries all over Europe, ready to join the great melting pot. They faced hardships, but quickly managed to immerse themselves into an ideology they called the American Dream. Decades...
U.N. Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia
March 30th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council condemned a barrage of missile attacks against Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi group and expressed grave concern at reports of violations of an U.N. arms embargo on Houthi leaders. In a statement, the 15-member Security Council expressed alarm at a Houthi threat to......
European powers face resistance to Iran sanctions to save nuclear deal
March 30th, 20180 BRUSSELS/PARIS — France, Britain and Germany are struggling to persuade their E.U. partners to back new sanctions on Iran to preserve its nuclear deal, diplomats said, with Italy doubting whether the measures can stop the United States from pulling out in May. At a closed-door meeting of E.U. ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday,...
Russia orders out 60 U.S. diplomats over spy poisoning affair
March 30th, 20180 MOSCOW — Russia expelled 60 U.S. diplomats on Thursday and announced it would eject scores from other countries that have joined London and Washington in censuring Moscow over the poisoning of a spy. The U.S. ambassador was also ordered to shut the consulate in St. Petersburg, in Russia's retaliation for the biggest expulsion of......
