Boycott campaigns over Israeli war on Gaza hit Western brands in some Arab countries
November 24th, 20230 CAIRO – On a recent evening in Cairo, a worker cleaned tables in an empty McDonald's restaurant. Branches of other Western fast-food chains in the Egyptian capital also appeared deserted. All have been hit by a largely spontaneous, grassroots boycott campaign over Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip since the surprise Hamas...
Ours is an indigenous struggle: How Gaza united the world
November 24th, 20230 By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective...
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. 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...
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...
Turkish Airlines will connect Midwest to Istanbul through Detroit flights, marking its 13th gateway in the U.S.
November 16th, 20230 As of November 15, Turkish Airlines, a global carrier, will connect the Midwest region to Türkiye’s tourism hub and will operate three flights per week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) and Istanbul Airport, using the carrier’s new Boeing 787-9 aircraft. After December 25, the flag...
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...
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....
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......
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...
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......
Ceasefire Now Resolution urges support for an end to violence in Israel and Occupied Palestine
October 22nd, 20230 WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Reps Cori Bush (D-MO), Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), André Carson (D-IN), Summer Lee (D-PA) and Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL), alongside Representatives Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN),...
Livonia couple trapped in Gaza, appeals for help
October 20th, 20230 In the heart of the ongoing war on Gaza, a family from Livonia, Michigan, has found themselves trapped for the last 12 days. Zakaria Alarayshi and his wife, Laila, residents of Livonia for the past 23 years, had embarked on a visit to their homeland just days before the crisis erupted. They now remain stranded, unable to return to......
Biden to seek $14 billion in military aid for Israel as invasion of Gaza nears
October 20th, 20230 On Thursday, President Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defense minister told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group. In a televised White House speech late on Thursday that also addressed Ukraine's effort to repel Russia's...
France uses tear gas on banned pro-Palestinian rally as Macron calls for calm
October 13th, 20230 PARIS – French police used tear gas and water cannons to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home. Macron's interior minister had earlier banned pro-Palestinian protests,......
