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...
Two Muslim students stabbed in Fremont, California in possible hate crime
November 21st, 20230 By Sunita Sohrabji “My brother’s wounds will eventually heal, but the trauma will remain for a very long time.” — Arfat Yafai, brother of Khalid Yafai, who remains on a ventilator in the ICU after undergoing three surgeries. Stabbing victim Khalid Yafai has been on a ventilator since Nov. 17, unable...
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. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Flint) won’t seek re-election
November 17th, 20230 FLINT – Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee announced he will not be seeking re-election in 2024. Kildee, who represents Michigan's 8th Congressional District, says that being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year helped him make the decision. "I was first elected to public office when I was 18-years-old," Kildee said in a...
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...
Chancellor Grasso: “Make America great again” is an invitation to the past, we’re making “America great” period!
November 16th, 20230 On February 15, 2018, the University of Michigan-Dearborn announced the appointment of Domenico Grasso as a new chancellor after a meeting of the Board of Regents. Since the fall of that year, the sixth chancellor has been a very dynamic leader, making significant contributions to higher education, environmental research, diversity and...
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, 20231 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...
Former GOP U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer announces run for U.S. Senate
November 10th, 20230 GRAND RAPIDS – Peter Meijer, a Republican who served one term in Congress before being ousted by voters following a vote to impeach then-President Trump, announced Monday that he will run for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Meijer joins a field of more than a dozen candidates vying for the seat that’s been held by...
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...
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...
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......
Attorney Ben Crump to represent Hanan Shahin, mother of 6-year-old Palestinian who was fatally stabbed
November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON D.C. — Ben Crump, civil rights and personal injury attorney, is set to represent Hanan Shahin, mother of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian boy fatally stabbed 26 times by his 71-year old landlord, Joseph M. Czuba, in Plainfield Township, Illinois, near Chicago. The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)...
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......
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...
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......
