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.......
Time to listen: What is Gaza telling us about Palestinian priorities
November 2nd, 20230 Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation in the entire Middle East and to re-center Palestine as the world’s most urgent political crisis for years to come. Since the establishment of Israel, facilitated by Britain and...
The Gaza manifesto: Why America’s old Middle East is crumbling
November 1st, 20230 History will not forgive those who have remained silent, exhibited or expressed “balanced” positions — or worse, defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in an already besieged, impoverished and overcrowded Gaza. This is not a cliché declaration, a desperate attempt aimed at jolting the world, especially the Western world, to show......
New poll finds Arab American support for Biden plummeting
October 31st, 20230 By Peter Schurmann Support for President Biden among Arab Americans has plummeted in the wake of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new survey released by the non-partisan Arab American Institute. The survey of 500 Arab Americans found a 42 percent decrease in those who say they approve of the president’s...
Israel lies about civilians losses to conceal its colossal failure. Here is the proof
October 27th, 20232 According to a list published in the Israeli newspapers, a total of 14 children and seven elders among the 768 Israeli dead from the October 7 attack. The list of names, ages and profession of those who were killed are published here as well. Since the Hamas onslaught on the Southern area of Israel on October 7, Benjamin...
Betrayed by Biden and other Democrats, Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan vow: “We will never vote for them again”
October 27th, 20231 The positions of the Biden administration on the current Israeli war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since October 7 were not only disappointing, but rather shocking and provocative to the extreme of oppression and resentment among Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan and nationwide. They felt that President Biden and most...
U of M students walk out in support of Palestinians, clash with Israel’s supporters on campus
October 27th, 20230 ANN ARBOR — On Wednesday, students at the University of Michigan walked out in support of innocent Palestinians under attack in Gaza in a walkout with other students across the nation – all condemning universities and politicians for supporting Israel. Thousands of students gathered on the Diag at the University of Michigan on......
More than 400 Capitol Hill staffers call for cease-fire In Gaza
October 27th, 20230 By Rowaida Abdelaziz/ Huffpost Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter Thursday urging Congress to back a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in light of “anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise nationwide.” The letter, which HuffPost has learned has been signed by 411...
Israel is losing support as fury grows over its brutality in Gaza
October 27th, 20230 Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah was offered a chance to express horror at the October 7 Hamas killing and abduction of Israelis. How did she feel, she was asked in a CNN interview, “as an Arab, as a Palestinian, a human being, a mother?” The monarch launched into an impassioned denunciation of Israel’s subsequent bombing......
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations says no visas for U.N. representatives
October 25th, 20230 On October 25, Gilad Erdan, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said the Israeli government would refuse visas to U.N. officials. The statement comes the day after Erdan called for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to resign from his position for being passionate toward Palestinians. “The U.N. secretary-general,...
Bloomfield Hills High School students to participate in nationwide walkout for Palestine on Wednesday, October 25th
October 24th, 20232 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI — On Wednesday, October 25th, at 2:15 p.m., Students Organized for Palestine, a student-led group at Bloomfield Hills High School will be participating in the nationwide walkout for Palestine in front of the school's main entrance. The group released the following statement on Tuesday, alongside several student-led......
