Runaway Saudi sisters fear death, plead for world’s help
April 18th, 20190 TBILISI - Two Saudi sisters took to Twitter on Wednesday to plead for international protection and a safe haven, saying their lives would be at risk if they went back to Saudi Arabia. The women, in their 20s, said they had arrived in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and needed help from the international community to find a new...
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement co-founder denied entry by U.S. government
April 12th, 20190 Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli financial interests, has been denied entry to the United States after airline staff informed him he wouldn't be flying. Barghouti was at Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday when he was told by U.S....
Trump congratulates Netanyahu: “U.S. with you and Israel all the way!”
April 12th, 20190 WASHINGTON, DC — President Trump phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to congratulate him on his re-election, and Netanyahu said he thanked his ally for “tremendous support for Israel.” Netanyahu tweeted that Trump had called him from Air Force One. The president was on a flight to Texas. Netanyahu...
For Palestinians, it doesn’t matter who wins the Israeli elections
April 12th, 20190 Israeli elections have just concluded and the results indicate that Benjamin Netanyahu is set to win a fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The race between Netanyahu and his strongest challenger, Benjamin Gantz, who is a former chief of staff of the Israeli military forces, was very tight. But even if Gantz and his associated political...
The unfinished Gaza war: What Netanyahu hopes to gain from attacking Palestinian prisoners
April 12th, 20190 The current violence targeting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails dates back to January 2. It was then that Israel’s public security minister, Gilad Erdan, declared that the “party is over.” “Every so often, infuriating pictures appear of cooking in the terrorist wings. This party is coming to an end,” Erdan was quoted in...
Standing up for Golan and Jerusalem: Dearborn rally held in defiance of Trump, Netanyahu
April 11th, 20190 DEARBORN — A rally was held inside the Dearborn Civic Center on Sunday, April 7 in defiance of President Trump and newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proclamation that the Golan Heights belongs to Israel, a move that has been denounced by many as being illegal under international law. Hosted by the local...
State Dept. warns Americans of kidnapping risk: Lebanon among other Arab states on the list
April 11th, 20190 WASHINGTON, DC - Due to the increased risk of American citizen abductions, the U.S. State Department has updated its travel advisories for 35 countries, with a new indicator to highlight the risk of kidnapping and hostage taking. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Libya are the Arab states on the list. The...
Israeli elections: Netanyahu wins the 2019 election
April 9th, 20190 By Farah Harb The Arab American News TEL AVIV — Despite legal trouble and after a tight race, Benjamin Netanyahu will continue to be Israel's prime minister. He will now be able to form a governing coalition able to withstand a bribery indictment by Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, according to the results of the April 9...
Jerusalem’s Bishop Attallah Hanna visits Metro Detroit next week
March 27th, 20190 LIVONIA — The Palestine Aid Society of America will be hosting Jerusalem's Bishop Atallah Hanna on Sunday, March 31 at St. Mary's Cultural Center in Livonia. Hanna will serve as a keynote speaker during the Day of the Land Commemoration. Born in the Galilean village of Al Rameh, Theodosius (Atallah) Hanna attended Thessalonica...
Ivy League university passes divestment referendum in favor of Palestinians
March 22nd, 20190 PROVIDENCE, RI —The student coalition at Brown University, a prestigious Ivy League school with an enrollment of nearly 7,000 students, has passed a landmark divestment referendum. The coalition, Brown Divest, garnered around 69 percent of the vote in favor of divestment, according to an article from the Brown Daily Herald. The...
Lebanese illustrator challenges views of Arab women through art
March 9th, 20190 BEIRUT — Lebanese artist Christina Atik has produced a series of digital pictures to illustrate sentences commonly used in Arab countries to criticize women with the aim of empowering Arab women. The project tackles issues of female freedom, beauty and sexuality in societies traditionally dominated by men. Atik, 27, said she...
Israeli ministers pledge to settle ‘2 million Jews’ in West Bank in the heart of Palestinian communities
February 26th, 20190 The Arab American News WEST BANK - Israel has approved some 4,000 new settlement units as part of a massive settlement project spanning across occupied East Jerusalem and into West Jerusalem, Israeli media reported. Jerusalem’s planning and construction committee approved the project earlier this week, paving the way for 4,416...
Israeli pharmaceutical firms test medicines and weapons on Palestinians
February 24th, 20190 JERUSALEM - In yet another violation of Palestinian rights, the Israel occupation authorities issue permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, according to a report by Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian issued yesterday. In addition, the Hebrew University lecturer also revealed...
Thousands of Gulf Arabs fleeing their homelands to escape repression, fear of violence
January 28th, 20190 TORONTO — Saudi Arabian teenager Rahaf Muhammad's fleeing her native country over alleged family abuse and arrival here has shed light on a growing trend of Gulf Arabs leaving the region, as highlighted in a recent report from The Economist. Thousands of other Saudis have been quietly leaving the kingdom, which is one of the most...
Nasrallah: Hezbollah could enter Israel now and before tunnels were found
January 26th, 20190 BEIRUT — Hezbollah has “for years” been able to enter Israel, the Lebanese group’s leader said on Saturday, responding for the first time to Israel’s discovery of tunnels dug into Israeli territory from Lebanon. Israel’s unveiling of what it called Hezbollah “attack tunnels” last month, and Lebanon’s accusation that......
False ‘victories’: Is the PA using the ‘State of Palestine’ to remain in power?
January 26th, 20190 The "State of Palestine" has officially been handed the chairmanship of the G-77, the United Nations' largest block. This is particularly significant considering the relentless Israeli-American plotting to torpedo the Palestinian push for greater international recognition and legitimacy. It is now conclusive that the main mission for...
African migrants told to leave by Israeli government or face imprisonment
January 4th, 20190 The Israeli government has reportedly issued a notice for thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment, according to BBC News. In return for leaving the country within the next 90 days, each migrant will be given up to $3,500, the report said, adding that they will be given the option of returning to......
Federal appeals court reverses lower court ruling, backs Trump administration bid to deport some Iraqis
December 24th, 20180 NEW YORK — On Thursday, a federal appeals court backed the Trump administration in its attempt to deport about 100 Iraqi immigrants who'd been convicted of crimes years ago. A divided Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling that had blocked President Trump’s bid to send the immigrants back to Iraq....
Israel claims it sealed off cross-border tunnels from Lebanon
December 21st, 20180 TEL AVIV — The Israeli military claimed it sealed off four tunnels on Thursday that it said had been dug by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah under the border from Lebanon. The work was being carried out on the Israeli side of the frontier demarcation, known as the “Blue Line”, according to an Israeli military...
Israel will authorize thousands of illegal settler homes in occupied West Bank
December 14th, 20180 TEL AVIV — Israel will authorize thousands of the settler homes built illegally in the occupied West Bank, some of them decades ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The move is likely to please pro-settler members of Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition while further angering Palestinians, who want the West...
Senators working behind the scenes to pass anti-Israel boycott law during lame duck session
December 9th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Boycott movements have long been an effective tool for protesters, but a new bill being pushed through Congress aims to penalize people speaking in favor of one of the most popular worldwide boycott movements today: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) is among......
Lebanese man fined $50 million, sent to prison for helping Hezbollah
December 7th, 20180 WASHINGTON — A Lebanese businessman sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for being an important financial supporter of Hezbollah pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges associated with evading U.S. sanctions imposed on him, the U.S. Justice Department said. Kassim Tajideen, 63, pleaded guilty to conspiring with at least five...
Israel asks Lebanon to destroy tunnel allegedly dug by Hezbollah across border
December 7th, 20180 Israel asked Lebanon’s army and U.N. peacekeepers on Thursday to destroy a tunnel it said had been dug by the Hezbollah group across the border into what it called its territory. Israel’s occupation forces said this week it had identified a number of passages and sent diggers and troops close the front line with Lebanon to block......
From Gaza to Dearborn: Mohammed Abu Hussein lost his leg, but not his hope
December 2nd, 20180 DEARBORN – The Palestinian struggle carries countless stories of suffering and injustice. Such is the case with Mohammed Abu Hussein, a young Palestinian boy who lost his right leg in June during the Great March of Return along the Gaza border against the Israeli occupation. Mohammed is currently in Dearborn, where he will receive a...
Former Bahraini minister warns of joint Arab-Israel conspiracy against Palestine
November 18th, 20180 Former Bahraini Minister Mohammad Ali Fakhro, a board member of the Arab Anti-Corruption Organization, criticized the Arab world’s normalization with Israel, blaming these ties for Tel Aviv’s continuous targeting of Palestinians, Arabi21 reported on Wednesday. “The Israeli occupation continues its efforts to get rid of the......
