Genocide or not, Israel has lost the moral high ground
January 12th, 20241 By Avraham Shama, Opinion contributor to THE HILL Israel will likely be found guilty of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza by the International Court of Justice in the Hague. If so, the court could call for an immediate ceasefire and consider compensation for Gazans. Even if the court would not find guilt, Israel...
Israeli officials candidly admit to genocide
January 12th, 20240 Letter to the editor: The government of South Africa — whose people know a thing or two about the evils of apartheid — is charging Israel with the crime of genocide before the International Court of Justice. Israeli spokespersons and apologists may scream and howl in protest, but, as Pretoria’s legal brief documents, the...
A “genocidal maniac”: What is Netanyahu’s ultimate goal in the Middle East?
January 12th, 20240 This article was written shortly before Israel assassinated the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut on January 2. The assassination is a further illustration of the Israeli government's desire to escape the consequences of its disastrous war in Gaza, by igniting a regional...
At the Hague, South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
January 12th, 20240 On Thursday, South Africa accused Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza and demanded that the U.N.'s top court order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. On the first of two days of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa said Israel's offensive,...
U.S., Britain carry out strikes against Yemen, officials say
January 12th, 20240 The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Yemeni military targets in response to the Houthi's attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a dramatic regional widening of the Israeli war on Gaza. As witnesses in Yemen confirmed explosions throughout the country to Reuters, President Biden cautioned in a statement...
American rabbis hold protest calling for ceasefire during United Nations General Assembly in New York
January 12th, 20240 NEW YORK — A group of American Rabbis and rabbinical students organized a protest during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, January 9, urging a ceasefire in Gaza. The group was also asking that President Biden's administration stop vetoing various resolutions that would end the violence...
Three months later: Still no lessons learned
January 5th, 20240 One day last week, the New York Times printed two separate articles describing Israeli and Palestinian reactions to the ongoing war that, together, paint a disturbing portrait of where we are three months after October 7. The piece about Israelis was headlined “Oct. 7 Is Forcing Israelis to Rethink Their Identity,” with the subhead...
Claudine Gay’s forced resignation as Harvard president comes weeks after Penn’s Liz Magill stepped down
January 5th, 20240 Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned, just weeks after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill also left her position following the university leaders’ congressional testimonies on anti-Semitism last month. Along with backlash surrounding how she addressed anti-Semitism on campus, Gay is resigning amid a growing wave of...
U.S. “not seeing acts of genocide” in Gaza, State Dept says
January 5th, 20240 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian enclave. "Those are allegations that should not be...
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel sets up a high-stakes battle at U.N. court
January 5th, 20240 THE HAGUE — South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court alleging that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. The filing and Israel’s decision to defend itself at the International Court of Justice set up a high-stakes showdown before a panel of judges in the Great Hall of...
Second administration official resigns in protest of Biden’s support for Israeli war on Gaza
January 5th, 20240 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, a Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit to protest the administration’s continuous military support of Israel’s war on Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad. Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had...
Nasrallah vows revenge after Hamas leader’s killing, “cannot be silent”, warns Israel against spreading Gaza war
January 5th, 20240 BEIRUT — On Wednesday, the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said it "cannot be silent" after the killing of Hamas' deputy leader in the suburb of Beirut and warned that his heavily armed forces would fight to the finish if Israel chose to extend war from Gaza to Lebanon. Israeli forces meanwhile kept up their aerial and ground assaults...
“We will come to you in a roaring flood”: The untold story of the October 7 attacks
January 5th, 20240 The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not. Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier — as done in 2006 — hundreds of Israelis,...
ISIS claims responsibility for deadliest attack in Iran since 1979, Tehran vows revenge
January 5th, 20240 ISIS claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions in Iran that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in 2020 by a U.S. drone. In a statement posted on its affiliate Telegram channels, the militant Sunni Muslim group said two ISIS members had...
McDonald’s CEO says several markets in Middle East impacted by Israeli war on Gaza
January 5th, 20240 McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski said on Thursday several markets in the Middle East and some outside the region were experiencing a "meaningful business impact" due to the Israel war on Gaza as well as "associated misinformation" about the brand. Major Western fast-food chains, including McDonald's and Starbucks, have seen largely......
Israel’s port sees 85 percent drop in activity amid Red Sea Yemen’s Houthi attacks
December 22nd, 20230 Israel's Eilat Port has seen an 85 percent drop in activity since Houthi military forces in Yemen stepped up attacks on ships heading to Israel in the Red Sea, the port's chief executive said on Thursday. The Houthis are playing an escalating role in the conflict in the Middle East, also firing drones and missiles at Israel in a...
Gaza grandfather describes killing of his entire family by Israeli soldiers
December 22nd, 20230 GAZA — When the Israeli occupation army entered the Gaza school where Yousef Khalil was sleeping near his family, they began shooting indiscriminately, killing nine people, including children, he said, pointing to bullet-pocked, bloodstained walls. His account, which Israel's military says it is looking into, comes after the killing......
ACRL calls on President Biden to rescue U.S service member’s mother trapped in Gaza
December 22nd, 20230 DEARBORN – The Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) has urgently called on the Biden administration to exert an effort to save the lives of Zahra Sckak, the mother of an active U.S. military service member, and his American uncle, Farid Sukaik, both trapped in Northern Gaza. Fadi Sckak has spent the last month making phone calls...
Wayne County Commission passes a symbolic Gaza ceasefire resolution
December 22nd, 20230 DETROIT – On Tuesday, the Wayne County Commission passed a symbolic resolution calling for a ceasefire amid the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza, after weeks of delay and heated discussion. The Commission's statement was also a brief one, "condemning all acts of violence against the Israeli and Palestinian people, and mourning the loss of...
Israeli war on Gaza among the deadliest and most destructive in history, experts say
December 22nd, 20230 The Israeli war on Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more...
Urinating on prisoners: Why humiliation is functional in Israel’s war on Palestinians
December 20th, 20230 When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians. Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor......
Arab American attorney’s job offer rescinded; “I was targeted for my background”
December 15th, 20231 An Arab American attorney is speaking out after she said she was fired the day before she was set to start a new job at the Chicago law firm Foley and Lardner. Jinan Chehade said the reason was her support of Palestinian rights. "Members of the firm who advocate for Israeli violence and who have expressed support for Israel were not...
U.N. says food trucks being intercepted as hunger grows in Gaza
December 15th, 20230 GENEVA — On Thursday, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said that crowds of hungry people were stopping its aid trucks in Gaza and helping themselves to the food, making it almost impossible to continue delivering aid. The U.N. World Food Program has said half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million is starving as Israel's......
Hamtramck to rename street “Palestine Avenue”
December 15th, 20230 Hamtramck will rename one of its streets “Palestine Avenue” in symbolic support of the people of Gaza. Hamtramck City Council members voted on the measure Tuesday night, in their final meeting of the year. “I know it's not going to change anything, but it's just showing what Hamtramck stands for and what the community here...
Israel suffers heaviest combat losses since October, International isolation
December 15th, 20230 On Wednesday, Israel announced its worst combat losses in more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza, and faced growing diplomatic and international isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory. Intense fighting between Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers was under......
