Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war’s toll on Palestinian children
March 29th, 20240 An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by an Israeli strike that fractured his skull. His cousin, an infant, is still...
Large crowd attended bintjbeil.org’s second annual iftar dinner in Dearborn, honoring 10 women for their distinguished contributions
March 29th, 20240 DEARBORN — On the 21st anniversary of its founding last Thursday, the well known Lebanese social media site BintJbeil.org held its annual iftar dinner in the Summit Banquet Center. Officials with the organization estimated that close to 1,000 guests attended the dinner, including elected officials and community leaders. The event's...
Governor Newsom’s open letter to California’s Muslim and Arab American Communities
March 22nd, 20240 To California’s Muslim, Palestinian American and Arab American communities: California is a better place because of you—our Muslim, Palestinian American and Arab American neighbors and friends who contribute so much to our state’s sense of faith and belonging. From countless achievements in literature, civil rights, arts,...
U.S. puts pressure on Israel with Gaza ceasefire resolution as talks continue in Qatar
March 22nd, 20240 Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the U.N. Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday in Cairo he believed talks mediated by the...
Protesters gather in Hollywood calling for permanent ceasefire outside of Academy Awards
March 15th, 20240 HOLLYWOOD — Protesters in Hollywood filled the streets the night of the Academy Awards, denouncing the United States' funding of the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The protest, near the Dolby Theatre, was organized by various organizations, including the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Centro CSO, Black Lives Matter LA,...
World Food Program executive director says famine in Gaza is approaching; aid urgently needed
March 15th, 20240 The United Nations has condemned Israel's intentional starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, declaring that famine is imminent. Following an unwarranted and violent massacre of Palestinians retrieving flour from aid trucks, the United Nations experts said that “Israel is not respecting its international legal obligations, is not...
Words vs. action: A supplication for Gaza, and humanity
March 15th, 20240 “All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being killed and wounded by the...
War on Gaza costing Starbucks in the Dearborn area big bucks
March 15th, 20240 DEARBORN – Starbucks cafés in the Dearborn area are witnessing an unprecedented decline in customers’ demand for the chain’s most famous products, just as they are elsewhere in the U.S and around the world. This decline comes in conjunction with continuing campaigns on social media platforms to boycott the company, which is...
Delegation from UNRWA visits Dearborn, meets with mayor and community leaders
March 15th, 20240 DEARBORN – Amid preparations by U.S. officials for a potentially indefinite suspension of funding to the principal U.N. agency supporting Palestinians due to Congressional opposition, the American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) welcomed a delegation from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to...
United against Israel: Time to end world’s longest occupation
March 8th, 20240 Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through “unconditional negotiations.” This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he cared enough to pay lip...
Hamtramck unveils the renaming of Holbrook Street to Palestine Avenue
March 8th, 20240 Hamtramck City Councilman Khalil Refai unveiled Palestine Avenue on Thursday afternoon after the City Council passed Resolution 2023-184 in December to rename a section of Holbrook street as a symbolic gesture of remembrance and support to the people of Gaza. The honorary Palestine Avenue is located between Buffalo and Saint Aubin...
Suicide vs genocide: Rest in power, Aaron Bushnell
March 1st, 20240 By Belén Fernández On Sunday, February 25, 25-year-old active duty member of the United States Air Force Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in the U.S. capital of Washington, DC, in a one-airman revolt against the U.S.-backed slaughter currently being perpetrated by the Israeli military in the Gaza...
U.S. airman dies after setting himself ablaze outside Israeli Embassy in Washington, in protest of war crimes against Palestinians
March 1st, 20240 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Sunday, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.” As he approached the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell of San......
Hundreds killed and injured while seeking food aid in Gaza, overall death toll passes 30,000
March 1st, 20240 On Thursday, Israeli occupation forces fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to get food off an aid convoy in Gaza City, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza to more than 30,000, according to health officials. Israel said many of the dead were trampled...
Hezbollah signals it will cease fire when Israel stops attacking Gaza
March 1st, 20240 BEIRUT — On Thursday, the Hezbollah group signaled that it would halt its attacks on Israel from Lebanon when the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip stops, but that it was also ready to keep on fighting if Israel continued hostilities. Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been trading fire since the Palestinian group Hamas......
Netanyahu’s last battle – no victory, just slaughter in Rafah
February 28th, 20240 The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself. It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern. As the gateway between two continents and two worlds,...
U.S. vetoes United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire
February 23rd, 20240 The United States vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israeli war on Gaza. The U.S. instead called for a temporary ceasefire associated and directly linked to the release of the Hamas-held hostages. The resolution, drafted by Algeria, received votes in favor...
“Two-state solution” as a distraction – the problem is Zionism
February 23rd, 20240 The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is the use of a Palestinian state, if Zionism, as a racist, exclusivist ideology continues to define Israel, and impose that definition on the Palestinians? This ideology calls for racial purity of Jews in Palestine, of course, at the expense of the native...
Doctors without Borders chief slams U.S. veto of Gaza ceasefire resolutions at U.N.: Children in Gaza as young as 5 want to die
February 23rd, 20240 UNITED NATIONS – On Thursday, the head of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) told the United Nations Security Council that medical teams in the Gaza Strip have come up with a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family. "Children who do survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic......
Houthis’ leader: Yemen vows to step up strikes in Red Sea, using “submarine weapons”
February 23rd, 20240 On Thursday, Yemen claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.K.-owned cargo ship and a drone assault on an American destroyer, and it targeted Israel's port and resort city of Eilat with ballistic missiles and drones. The statement by a Yemeni representative on social media site X came shortly after the group's leader said it was...
Efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza appear to gain new momentum
February 23rd, 20240 International efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appeared to gain new momentum Thursday as the White House said a visit by a senior envoy with Israeli leaders was “going well” and other mediators reported encouraging signs from the warring parties. The new signs of progress came ahead of an expected summit this......
The unrepentant West: Olaf Scholz and the right to commit genocide in Gaza
February 17th, 20240 On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.” If such a statement was made soon after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of October 7, one may cognize its logic, based on the well-known,...
U.N. warns Israel as international pressure mounts: Rafah invasion could “lead to slaughter”
February 16th, 20240 UNITED NATIONS – On Tuesday, the United Nations warned against an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying an offensive could "lead to a slaughter" in the southern region of the Palestinian enclave where more than 1 million people are sheltering. Israel says it wants to flush out Hamas militants from hideouts in......
