Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide
December 6th, 20240 “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo. By Prem Thakker A young Palestinian man walks in the rubble following Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis, Gaza, on April 7. File photo Israel is committing...
No more “deals” – what Palestinians want and will fight to achieve
November 29th, 20240 A major problem in American thinking in the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental, if at all relevant, to the coveted peace and stability. Long before Donald Trump’s first “Deal of the Century” was officially revealed on January 28, 2020, successive U.S. administrations...
Israel and Hezbollah agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon brokered by the U.S. and France, war on Gaza rages
November 29th, 20240 On Wednesday, tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese residents began returning to their homes in Southern Lebanon as a ceasefire was called, halting the fighting between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah. After a nearly 14 month cross-border fight and Israel's invasion into Lebanon last month, with thousands killed, displaced and...
A nation in denial: Why Israel’s defeat is imminent
November 22nd, 20240 The paradoxical phrase, “running away forward” is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now. It seems that everything that Israel has done in the past year or so is a mere attempt to deny, distract from or escape imminent future scenarios – all of which are bleak. Indeed, the last year...
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
November 22nd, 20241 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself under mounting international and domestic pressure as he continues his aggressive attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. Despite failing to achieve his stated war objectives, Netanyahu persists in his policy of "forward escape," attempting to deflect attention from his legal troubles. He is...
Columbia settles with Israeli student suspended for using “fart spray” on pro-Palestinian protesters
November 15th, 20240 NEW YORK CITY — Columbia University has agreed to pay $395,000 to one of two Jewish students who were suspended in January after spraying student demonstrators with a foul-smelling substance during a pro-Palestine campus protest. The incident occurred during a Jan. 19 rally organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a...
Israeli aggression faces firm resistance in Lebanon and Gaza amid escalation and internal pressures on Netanyahu
November 15th, 20240 The Israeli offensive in Gaza and Lebanon continues to face significant challenges on multiple fronts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is grappling with an intensifying internal political crisis and a looming corruption trial while the Israeli military faces an emboldened and well-organized resistance on the ground. Military stalemate...
Voting against genocide — How Gaza defeated the Democratic establishment
November 15th, 20242 Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many Americans as well. The ones who cost the Democrats the elections are the Democrats themselves. Their humiliating...
Arab Americans’ perspectives on the Middle East crisis
November 15th, 20241 It is time to realign our compass with the values that we and this nation stand for and reshape our narrative to leave a heroic and meaningful legacy for future generations. For months, countless children, women and the elderly have lost their lives or severely injured. An immeasurable number of children are now orphans, women have lost...
“Gaza is ours, forever” — Israel’s extremists have a plan for the day after the genocide
October 31st, 20240 Under the slogan “Gaza is ours, forever”, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border region, on October 20-21. The group represented the who’s who in the Israeli right, far right and ultranationalists. They included Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir,...
Hezbollah fighters repel Israeli ground incursions in Lebanon and escalate strikes on Israeli heartland, while Gaza endures intensified onslaught
October 26th, 20240 Lebanon frontline and Israeli setbacks: Over a month into Israel’s comprehensive and vicious military campaign against Lebanon, the Israeli army struggles to accomplish any significant gains along the northern border. Hezbollah forces, meanwhile, are not only repelling ground incursions but also intensifying their missile...
Israel’s Biblical wars of “self defense”: the myth of the “seven war fronts”
October 25th, 20240 Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went as far as saying that his country is fighting on seven different war fronts, all driven by the...
“text me you haven’t died”— my sister was the 166th doctor to be murdered in Gaza
October 18th, 20240 “Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.” These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters. Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried...
Who was Yahya Sinwar?
October 18th, 20240 Yahya Ibrahim Sinwar was born in October 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern Gaza Strip. He joined the "Hamas" movement, founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, before the first Palestinian intifada in 1987. Sinwar received his education in Khan Younis camp schools, completing his secondary education...
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza battlefield
October 18th, 20240 Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was Israel’s most-wanted man. Lebanon's Hezbollah group......
A year of genocide — despite the unbelievable pain, Palestinians emerge stronger
October 14th, 20240 No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people across the globe would, once again, rally for Palestinian freedom. The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary...
Dearborn rally condemns Israeli aggression on Lebanon: Harris won’t get our votes, and Nasrallah remains in the hearts of millions of his admirers
October 4th, 20242 DEARBORN – Amid the intensifying Israeli aggression on Lebanon, hundreds of Arab Americans gathered in front of the Dearborn Police headquarters Wednesday to protest the daily massacres committed by the Israeli military in the region. They also denounced the unlimited support provided by Washington to Israel’s war efforts. The......
Israel’s true objectives in Gaza, and why it will fail
September 20th, 20241 Never in its history of war and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future, and the future of its victims. Even a quick glance at headlines in international media reveals the depth of the Israeli dilemma. While Tel Aviv continues to carry out a genocidal war against the Palestinian...
Pro-Palestine student activism continues at Wayne State University
September 20th, 20240 Wayne State University hosted its first in-person Board of Governors (BOG) meeting since April, and 11 students and two professors spoke during public comment about topics that included increased police presence at meetings and university divestment from weapons manufacturers. The 3 p.m. general body session began with WSU President...
Nasrallah: Israeli attacks crossed “all red lines” and made a “declaration of war”, vows retaliation
September 20th, 20240 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the pager and walkie-talkie attacks against its members in Lebanon and Syria this week crossed “all red lines” and the group will retaliate and is undeterred in its fight against Israel in support of Palestinians in Gaza. On Thursday, in his first televised speech since the...
124 countries vote for resolution in U.N. General Assembly, calling on Israel to end its occupation in the Palestinian Territory
September 20th, 20241 The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted resolution that demands Israel end its "unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which constitutes a wrongful act of a continuing character entailing its international responsibility, and do so no later than 12 months." The resolution received 124......
Cartography of genocide: Why Netanyahu erased Palestine from the map
September 14th, 20240 When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer. “I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown on the map. I didn’t show the Jordan River. It’s not on this map. I didn’t show the Sea of Galilee,” was Netanyahu's...
Gazan teen musician sings for children who endure the daily horrors of war
September 7th, 20240 Braving the constant threat of airstrikes and bombings, 15-year-old Youssef Saad, a Gazan oud player, rides his bicycle through the war-ravaged streets of northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, his instrument strapped to his back. Saad sings for children who have endured daily horrors in 11 months of conflict, trying to offer them a......
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside Columbia University as classes begin
September 6th, 20240 NEW YORK — On Tuesday, two arrests were made as pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside Columbia University, just as students returned to class for the fall semester. The NYPD put up barricades and anyone entering the campus was subject to an identification screening. A university spokesperson released the following...
Israel, Hamas agree to zoned three-day pauses for Gaza polio vaccinations, WHO says
August 30th, 20240 UNITED NATIONS – The Israeli military and Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday. The vaccination campaign is due to start on Sunday, said Rik Peeperkorn,......
