First major legal win for BDS activists achieved at Fordham University after two-year battle
August 17th, 20190 NEW YORK CITY — A landmark victory has been won by a group of students at Fordham University here, who won the right to establish a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club on campus after two years of legal battles. The student government's approval of SJP was originally vetoed by the school in December 2016, but in April...
Trump encourages Netanyahu barring Tlaib and Omar from traveling to Israel
August 15th, 20190 JERUSALEM – Outspoken U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) have been barred from entering Israel ahead of a planned visit to the country. News came Thursday shortly before President Trump said Israel would show weakness by allowing the two representatives from visiting. “They hate Israel and all Jewish...
Trump administration threatens poor and working immigrants with new ruling, advocates speak out
August 13th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C.— Several advocates for immigrant families spoke out this week against a new Trump administration regulation that aims to prevent millions of families from accessing health care and other programs by denying them lawful permanent status in the United States. A person seeking entry into the U.S. or applying for a green...
Man arrested for scamming travelers at several airports including Detroit Metro Airport
August 13th, 20190 DETROIT - On Saturday, August 10, the Wayne County Airport Authority Police Department arrested 44-year-old H. Michael Borovetz in Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport’s McNamara Terminal. Borovetz is well-known as a professional poker player who has also been convicted multiple times for fraud at several airports. Borovetz is...
El Paso, Dayton shootings spark protests, renewed condemnations of “White nationalist terrorism”
August 10th, 20190 EL PASO, TX — President Trump's visit following on the heels of Saturday's shootings that left 22 people dead in a Walmart here were met with hundreds of demonstrators demanding action on gun laws and denouncing the president's rhetoric, which many have argued has contributed to the violence in El Paso, as well as Dayton, Ohio, this...
Two women, one wearing a hijab, stabbed in Pittsburgh
August 9th, 20190 PITTSBURG — Two women, one wearing a hijab, were stabbed at a bus stop in downtown Pittsburgh on Thursday in what appears to be a random act of violence. A Pittsburgh police officer was patrolling the area just before noon when he noticed a woman sleeping at a bus stop. As the officer stopped to check on her, a man came up from...
Rouhani to Trump: Lift sanctions first
August 9th, 20190 TEHRAN — Iranian president Hassan Rouhani denounced "economic terrorism" and stated that the U.S. "maximum pressure" campaign through sanctions will not change anything in the Iranian regime. Rouhani reiterated that if President Trump wants to start negotiations with Tehran, he must lift all sanctions against his country "before...
Incumbents get top votes in Dearborn Heights City Council primary elections, Bazzi asks for recount
August 9th, 20190 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Voters in Dearborn Heights headed to the various polling stations to cast their votes for City Council candidates and to decide on a millage proposal in the Crestwood School District. Incumbents Dave Abdallah, Lisa Hicks-Clayton and Ray Muscat competed for three seats, along with Jamal Bazzi, Larry Henney, Stephen...
Gunman kills 20, wounds 26 at Walmart store in El Paso, Texas
August 3rd, 20190 EL PASO, Texas - A man armed with a rifle opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 26 as shoppers and employees ran for cover before the gunman surrendered to police at the scene. The suspect was officially identified as a 21-year-old white male from Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb...
Israeli house demolitions are the true crime — not BDS
August 3rd, 20190 Israel is at it again. It remains consistent in engaging in one of its favorite activities: Stealing Palestinian land and tormenting Palestinians. On Monday, Israeli bulldozers, escorted by hundreds of Israeli soldiers, demolished no less than 16 residential buildings containing around 100 apartments in the village of Sur Baher, which...
How Biden’s secret 2002 meetings led to war in Iraq
August 3rd, 20190 Even though former Vice President Joe Biden’s favorability has declined following the first Democratic debate, he remains largely considered the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination by many mainstream media outlets and pundits. Early in the first debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned how Biden had supported the...
Presidential debate in Detroit energizes voters and organizers in Dearborn
August 3rd, 20190 DETROIT — The Democratic primary debate that took place July 30 left the audience with a comprehensive idea of which candidates seem to stand a chance of winning the nomination, what their plans entail and just how each of them could be right for Detroit, specifically, and Michigan at large. Despite competing for voters at the left...
In-vehicle infotainment systems especially distracting to older drivers
July 29th, 20190 New AAA Foundation research suggests focusing on older drivers could hold the key to safer in-vehicle technology for everyone DEARBORN — New in-vehicle infotainment technology has the potential to increase comfort and extend mobility for older drivers, but first it has to stop distracting them. On average, older drivers (ages 55-75)...
FBI’s Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve White supremacy
July 28th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to White supremacy. ”I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call...
Miss Michigan World 2019 unapologetic after being stripped of title for racial and religiously charged comments
July 27th, 20190 Kathy Zhu, crowned Miss Michigan in 2019 by the Miss World America organization, was recently stripped of her title for social media posts deemed “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate” by the pageant’s state director, Laurie DeJack. Her remarks on Twitter targeted Muslims and African Americans. When the remarks came to......
Miss Michigan World was rightfully dethroned for insensitive tweets
July 27th, 20190 Kathy Zhu, a Chinese American student at the University of Michigan, was recently dethroned as Miss Michigan World by pageant representatives regarding tweets which they considered to be religiously and racially “offensive” and “inappropriate.” As we believe in freedom of speech, which includes issues that are contentious and...
National polls don’t mean much. Here’s why.
July 22nd, 20190 "Here we go with the Fake Polls," President Trump tweeted on July 15. "Just like what happened with the election against Crooked Hillary Clinton." He's complaining about several polls that show him losing the national popular vote to various Democratic presidential aspirants, in some cases by double digits. He has a point. In 2016,......
Let’s not just focus on elections, but on how we elect
July 22nd, 20190 A few years ago, I was at a polling place here in Indiana where a long line of people stood waiting to vote. A woman recognized me and called me over. “Why is it,” she asked, “that you politicians make it so hard and inconvenient to vote?” I thought of this the other day when I read the news reports about presidents Trump and...
Ethnic and minority media to play a key role in 2020 Census complete count
July 22nd, 20190 DEARBORN — Dr. Hayg Oshagan, director of New Michigan Media (NMM) and professor of communications at Wayne State University, recently sat down with The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani for a discussion about the 2020 Census and the role of ethnic and minority media outlets in ensuring a complete and accurate count. NMM...
The “squad of four” hits back at Trump’s bigotry
July 22nd, 20190 After President Trump directed a series of racist tweets at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley on Sunday, the group of freshman congresswomen known as the “the Squad” rebuked the president for his bigoted remarks and vowed to continue fighting his cruel attacks on immigrants and other...
Netanyahu and Nasrallah exchange threats amid rising tensions in the region
July 22nd, 20190 BEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke during the annual commemoration of the 2006 victory of Lebanon's second war with Israel, addressing his support for Iran and saying he sees it as a partner that not only threatens Israel, but also views itself as a proud part of an “axis of resistance” against the U.S. and its......
It’s time for a return to civility
July 20th, 20190 I cannot stand by and say nothing. I hope some friends are reading this morning, because I can feel the ugly rhetoric that may come back at me. But really, "Send her back." That is the chant at a presidential rally. Making hate and division the central point of any presidential campaign is so thoroughly bothersome to me, I cannot...
What does it mean to “love your country?”
July 20th, 20190 President Trump said last Monday that the four democratic "progressive" congresswomen have to love our country or leave it. However, the word "love" is vague and is capable of many meanings. The Oxford Dictionary defines love as "an intense feeling of deep affection for someone." Loving one's country can carry various things to......
Iran: From strategic patience to mutual action
July 20th, 20190 TEHRAN - After a pressure campaign from the U.S. and its allies on the Iranian economy, followed by a few threat exchanges, Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of "smuggled fuel," state news agency Press TV said on Thursday. The IRGC said it had initially responded to distress calls from a ship on...
Netanyahu could deny Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib entrance into Israel
July 20th, 20190 TEL AVIV - Since condemning freedom of expression with regard to the BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions) movement has been prevalent in the U.S., and with President Trump's recent unapologetic racist remarks about Democratic congresswomen of color (a remark that included U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit)),......
