August 14th, 20260DETROIT — The Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) held a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Detroit on Tuesday to announce a proposed class-action lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and three American companies accused of helping enable the Israeli military’s destruction of properties belonging to...
August 14th, 20260It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza.
During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with unambiguous language: "Israel rejects the...
August 7th, 20260DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Abbas Alawieh achieved an unprecedented milestone for Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan, moving closer to becoming the first Arab American and first Muslim to serve in the State Senate following his decisive victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
Alawieh won the Democratic nomination in the Second State...
August 7th, 20260The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning.
For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as open spaces for military raids, settler invasions, land theft and collective punishment. The expectation was that Palestinians would endure the violence, bury...
July 31st, 20261The words "killed", "injured", "maimed" and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.
Take, for example, a headline like: "13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded." Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy, the news itself becomes less shocking...
July 24th, 20260In the upcoming Aug. 4 Democratic primary, three Arab American candidates are competing for their party's nomination for Michigan's Third House District seat: former Dearborn Board of Education member Hussein Berry, community activist Othman Ali Alaansi and State Rep. Alabas Farhat, who is seeking a third two-year term.
The winner of...
July 24th, 20260Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries.
The first incident occurred on July 8 when U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his delegation were detained by armed, illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West...
July 17th, 20260Watching elements of the Democratic Party establishment respond to insurgencies is fascinating.
After Senator Bernie Sanders won several early contests in the 2020 presidential nominating process, the establishment panicked. In 2016, Sanders had almost beaten their favorite, Hillary Clinton, before they put their thumb on the scale,...
July 10th, 20260NEW YORK — A new national survey suggests that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, underscoring the growing complexity of political attitudes toward Israel within the American Jewish community.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
July 9th, 20260A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare and telling record vote on stripping Israel of $3.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.
Brought forward by Republican Representative Thomas Massie and drawing support from key progressive Democrats like...
July 2nd, 20260European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human rights. That, of course, would hold true if she genuinely cared about such values herself.
In response to the June 19 signing of the memorandum of understanding between the United...
July 2nd, 20260Whether Israelis will ever comprehend the irreparable damage inflicted upon their country’s reputation by their U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, is a moot point. The damage Israel has done to itself through its barbaric practices in occupied Palestine is simply impossible to overcome.
Danon, however, utilizes a peculiar approach to...
June 27th, 20260DEARBORN — As absentee voting begins on June 25, the Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) has released its list of endorsed candidates for Michigan's Aug. 4 primary election, urging Arab American voters throughout Metro Detroit and across the state to support its endorsed candidates at the polls.
AAPAC's endorsement...
June 19th, 20260WEST BLOOMFIELD — Less than a week after two “Voices for Palestinians” signs were installed along Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield Township, the Oakland County Road Commission removed the official signs on Sunday in response to pressure from members of the local Jewish American community, citing their proximity to Temple...
June 19th, 20260Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals — both within his coalition and across Israel's political spectrum — are preparing to capitalize on his growing weakness.
Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who also...
June 12th, 20260DEARBORN — Community members, elected officials, faith leaders and activists gathered at Dearborn PEACE Park East on June 11 for the opening of the “Wall of Tears”, a large-scale public art installation created by American artist Phil Buehler that memorializes thousands of Palestinian children killed in Gaza since Oct. 7,...
June 12th, 20260Gaza requires urgent international attention.
What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little...
June 12th, 20260A number of sub-plots undergird the drama that erupted over the Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin’s release of an incomplete “autopsy” of the 2024 election.
First, I’ll note that I don’t envy the dilemma in which Martin found himself. Martin had promised to deliver an in-depth examination of what went wrong in...
June 4th, 20260It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza.
Since Internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin — who was killed along with all of his sons during the ongoing Gaza genocide. I asked her a simple question: what do Gazans want?
My purpose was to...
May 29th, 20260For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-shattering event. On the surface, it looks as if the days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of far-right extremists are numbered. The reality, however, is far more...
May 21st, 20260Is it anti-Semitic to say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza? Is it “hurtful and insensitive” for someone to acknowledge the suffering that Israel has inflicted on the Palestinian people? In recent weeks, actions by two institutions of higher learning brought these questions to the forefront.
On April 15, faculty and...
May 15th, 20260Recent polls of U.S. voters demonstrate a steep decline in overall support for Israel. For example, in February, when Gallup asked with whom they most sympathized, 41 percent of respondents said Palestinians, while only 36 percent named Israel. This markedly contrasts with results to Gallup’s same question in 2023 when 54 percent of...
May 15th, 20260DETROIT — Amid an increasingly fierce Democratic primary battle for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens received more than $5 million in mysterious outside support last week aimed at boosting her standing against her Democratic rivals Abdul El-Sayed and State Senator Mallory McMorrow less than three months...
May 15th, 20260The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers and society that has been conditioned to see the "other" as subhuman.
Yet, this was not the typical viral video that emerges almost daily from occupied Palestine. The victim, this time, was not a...
May 8th, 20260ANN ARBOR — The administration of the University of Michigan needed only a few hours to demonstrate what critics described as complete deference to pro-Israel pressure at the expense of free speech, after the university president swiftly condemned remarks delivered by a faculty speaker during last Saturday’s spring commencement...
May 7th, 20260Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the U.S. midterm congressional elections in November. This vote, in particular, is being framed as a pivotal turning point for everything from the survival of Gaza and Lebanon to the future of Iran and beyond.
To a large extent, one can understand why U.S. corporate...
May 1st, 20260By Prem Thakker
A new memo circulating on Capitol Hill details why the U.S. is obligated to cut weapons to Israel – even if Israel wants to buy them with its own money.
A memo is circulating in Congress detailing five laws and international standards that obligate the United States to stop sending or selling weapons to...
April 24th, 20260A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the U.S.-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and does not shy away from condemning it in clear terms. Yet, almost invariably, she feels compelled to qualify her position, reminding her audience that Iran has killed "tens of thousands of...
