Hollywood wages “holy war” on stars who dare to speak for Palestinian justice
November 24th, 20230 Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Scream star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israeli war on Gaza that some deemed "anti-Semitic." Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the upcoming Scream VII, acknowledged Barrera’s exit from the horror franchise. The...
Local communities continue to support Palestinians against Israeli brutality for the seventh week in a row
November 24th, 20230 While the city of Detroit joined the growing list of American cities in solidarity with the Palestinian people, communities and students in the Detroit area continued their protest activities against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for the seventh week in a row. A student demonstration at the University of Michigan resulted in...
Obama-era former National Security Council official arrested for spewing Islamophobic language at food vendor
November 24th, 20230 NEW YORK – A former Obama-era National Security Council official has been arrested after a series of videos shared widely on social media showed him using hate-laden, Islamophobic language against an employee working inside a New York City food cart, police said. Stuart Seldowitz, 64, was arrested Wednesday on preliminary charges of...
Boycott campaigns over Israeli war on Gaza hit Western brands in some Arab countries
November 24th, 20230 CAIRO – On a recent evening in Cairo, a worker cleaned tables in an empty McDonald's restaurant. Branches of other Western fast-food chains in the Egyptian capital also appeared deserted. All have been hit by a largely spontaneous, grassroots boycott campaign over Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip since the surprise Hamas...
Ours is an indigenous struggle: How Gaza united the world
November 24th, 20230 By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective...
Growing concerns over mysterious military flights from Tel Aviv to Lebanon
November 21st, 20230 According to a report from Al-Akhbar on November 21, multiple mysterious foreign military cargo flights are continuing to land at Beirut and Hamat airports. There has been increased speculation about whether the flights are bringing in equipment to be used against Hezbollah. Between November 14 and 20, at least nine planes from...
Dissent over Biden’s policy in the Israeli war on Gaza stirs unusual public protests from federal employees
November 20th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal government workers from the State Department to NASA are circulating open letters demanding that President Biden pursue a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Congressional staffers are picking up microphones in front of the Capitol, speaking out to condemn the silence of lawmakers about the toll on...
U.S. public support for Israel plummeting; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows
November 17th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. public support for Israel's war on Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Some 32 percent of respondents in the two-day opinion poll, which closed on Tuesday, said "the U.S. should...
ACLU sues DeSantis, Florida universities over ban of pro-Palestinian student groups
November 17th, 20230 On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union challenged Florida's ban on pro-Palestinian university groups, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the state is violating students' free speech as tensions roil U.S. campuses over Israel's war on Gaza. Last month, Florida’s university system, joined by Governor Ron DeSantis, ordered...
Protest at Debbie Stabenow’s office calls for ceasefire in Gaza
November 17th, 20230 DETROIT – Detroit chapters of the Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace came together on Thursday, Nov. 9 for Shut it Down for Palestine, a global call to action. The local event drew more than 100 people to protest outside of Senator Debbie Stabenow’s office at 719 Griswold St. in Detroit, in an effort to get...
Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand
November 17th, 20230 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile...
The Strip is already occupied: The two Gazas that Israel cannot break
November 16th, 20230 The ongoing discussions on the Israeli military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether Israel is planning a long or a short-term military reoccupation of the Strip. Israelis themselves are fueling this conversation, with 41 percent of Israelis wanting to leave Gaza following the war and another 44 percent wanting the Gaza...
U.S. lawmakers urge the Biden administration to call for ceasefire in Gaza
November 16th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than two dozen Democratic members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter urging the Biden administration to call for a ceasefire and end the Israeli genocide of Palestinians throughout Gaza. More Democrats now support ending the Israeli war against Palestinian armed groups that is wiping out innocent...
President Biden quickly losing Arab support over genocide in Gaza
November 12th, 20230 Oman’s U.S. embassy rushed a diplomatic cable to the White House warning that the unwavering support of President Biden for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians throughout Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation.” According to CNN, the cable was drafted by Muscat’s second-highest U.S. official and read, “We are...
Local Muslims and Arabs pledge to drive Biden out of office in 2024
November 10th, 20230 DETROIT – Local Muslim leaders and Palestinian Christians gathered in downtown Detroit on Thursday afternoon, vowing to drive President Biden out of office for failing to support a ceasefire in Gaza that could save thousands of lives. About 30 people, many holding signs that read “Abandon Biden”, stood outside the federal......
U.S. forces under attack in the Middle East as America slides towards the brink
November 10th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C./BAGHDAD – On Thursday, U.S. forces were targeted in three attacks in Iraq but suffered no casualties, security sources have said, in the most geographically widespread series of strikes on U.S. assets in a single day since the Israel-Hamas conflict started. A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from...
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib censured by Congress. Why and what does it mean?
November 10th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to censure Michigan's Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib as she continued to defend comments falsely considered as calling for Jewish elimination and described as anti-Semitic. Twenty-two Democrats joined Republicans in a 234-188 vote late Tuesday, after Tlaib — the only......
Alarayshi family back home after being stuck in war-torn Gaza
November 10th, 20230 DEARBORN — Zakaria and Laila Alarayshi, the couple from Livonia who were stuck in war-torn Gaza for a month, have made it back home. They shared their experience of being in Gaza as the conflict ensued. The couple spoke at a press conference at the Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) offices in Dearborn on Wednesday, where...
Walmart pledges $1 million aid for Israeli victims
November 10th, 20230 NEW YORK – Walmart Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the U.S. retailer, has pledged $1 million to an Israeli disaster relief and emergency medical service organization. Walmart's donation, reported by the Jerusalem Post on Friday, joins a list of similar funding efforts by big U.S. corporations to provide relief for Israelis injured...
Nasrallah threatens escalation of fighting against Israel at the Lebanese border
November 3rd, 20230 BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group said Friday that his powerful militia is engaged in unprecedented cross-border fighting with Israel and threatened escalation. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s widely anticipated speech was his first since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, sparked by the Palestinian militants’...
White House suggests “pauses” in Israel’s war on Gaza to get people out
November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the White House said it was exploring a series of ceasefires in the Israeli war on Gaza to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire. National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary......
U.N. experts say ceasefire needed as Palestinians at “grave risk of genocide”
November 3rd, 20230 GENEVA – On Thursday a group of independent United Nations experts called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinians there who are at "grave risk of genocide." Nearly four weeks of Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for deadly attacks by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel on Oct....
No ceasefire in Gaza, no votes, Muslim and Arab Americans tell Biden
November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – More and more Muslim and Arab American groups are threatening to withhold donations and votes towards President Biden's 2024 reelection unless he takes immediate steps to secure a permanent Gaza ceasefire. On Tuesday, the National Muslim Democratic Council, which includes Democratic Party leaders from hotly......
U.S. House passes Republicans’ Israel-only aid bill, which faces dead end in Senate
November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats' insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House's promise of a veto. The measure passed 226 to 196, largely along party...
Following an Israeli airstrike, crowded Gaza hospital struggles to treat wounded children
November 3rd, 20230 BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — The gray film covering the faces of children rushed to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza Thursday made it hard to distinguish between the living and the dead. After two Israeli airstrikes flattened an entire block of apartment buildings in the Bureij refugee camp and damaged two U.N.......
