March 8th, 20241On Thursday, The Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights hosted Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, for an evening of community discussion.
Stein, 73, a three-time Green Party presidential candidate, said as president she would immediately call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“The president can make a phone...
March 8th, 20240President Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House.
In his last State of the Union address before the election, Biden, a Democrat, charged Trump, his Republican...
March 1st, 20240By Belén Fernández
On Sunday, February 25, 25-year-old active duty member of the United States Air Force Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in the U.S. capital of Washington, DC, in a one-airman revolt against the U.S.-backed slaughter currently being perpetrated by the Israeli military in the Gaza...
March 1st, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Sunday, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
As he approached the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell of San...
February 28th, 20240The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself.
It has existed for thousands of years. The Canaanites referred to it as Rafia, and Rafia has been almost always there, guarding the southern frontiers of Palestine, ancient and modern.
As the gateway between two continents and two worlds,...
February 24th, 20241Michigan's presidential primary elections on February 27 constitute an exceptional milestone, as they include very important decisions for the Arab American community. Next Tuesday, Democratic and Republican voters will select their respective presidential candidates to face off in the November general election. This is an important...
February 23rd, 20240The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani interviewed Henry Ford College President Russ Kavalhuna about the Michigan presidential primary election ballot. The election will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 27, with early voting available at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center now through Feb. 25.
Voters can chose from...
February 23rd, 20240The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself.
What is the use of a Palestinian state, if Zionism, as a racist, exclusivist ideology continues to define Israel, and impose that definition on the Palestinians?
This ideology calls for racial purity of Jews in Palestine, of course, at the expense of the native...
February 17th, 20240On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.”
If such a statement was made soon after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of October 7, one may cognize its logic, based on the well-known,...
February 16th, 20240The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani interviewed Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko about the Michigan presidential primary election ballot. The election will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 27, with early voting available at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center Feb. 17 through 25.
Voters can...
February 16th, 20240Several American Jewish organizations led by the Anti Defamation League launched a campaign of distortion and intimidation against the longtime publisher and editor-in-chief of The Arab American News, Osama Siblani. This campaign of maligning Siblani came after his meeting with senior White House officials in Dearborn last week.
The...
February 13th, 20240The recent stabbing of a 23-year-old Palestinian American in Texas meets the standard for a hate crime, police announced on Wednesday.
Bert James Baker, 36, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly attacking 23-year-old Zacharia Doar after Doar and friends were returning from a pro-Palestinian protest on Sunday near the University of...
February 13th, 20240It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore.”
Feiglin’s comments were made on October 25, less than three weeks following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the genocidal Israeli war which...
February 9th, 20240DEARBORN – On Thursday, top Biden administration officials met with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan at the Henry Hotel in an effort to mend ties with a community that has an important role in deciding whether President Biden can hold on to a crucial swing state in the November election.
Biden is facing increasing...
February 4th, 20240Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word “genocide” quickly replaced the earlier reference to the “Israel-Hamas war”, starting on October 7.
Those familiar with Europe’s political discourse...
February 2nd, 20240DEARBORN – The efforts of President Biden's campaign to restore the dialogue with Arab and Muslim American voters in the Detroit area failed following the cancellation of a meeting last Friday scheduled to bring together Biden-Harris National Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, local elected Arab American officials and community...
January 27th, 20240THE HAGUE – On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The top United Nations court for handling disputes between states was ruling in a case brought by...
January 25th, 20240If what is currently happening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank took place before October 7, our attention would have been completely fixated on that region in Palestine.
The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, however, has devalued the important, if not earth-shattering events underway in the West Bank, which is now a stage for...
January 19th, 20240WASHINGTON D.C. — 400,000 protesters gathered in Washington D.C. on Saturday, January 13, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Standing in solidarity with Palestinians, their efforts were taken to the nation's capital.
The American Muslim Task Force for Palestine and various other groups organized the protest at Freedom Plaza. This...
January 19th, 20242Last December 5, the United States House of Representatives, in another spectacularly successful attempt to prove to everyone that it doesn’t know anything about anything which it openly debates, passed a nonbinding resolution that equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The vote was 311 in favor, 14 against, and 92 members voting...
January 19th, 20240Law number one in the “law of holes” is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two, “if you are not digging, you are still in a hole.”
These adages sum up Israel’s ongoing political, military and strategic crises, 100 days following the start of the war on Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
January 19th, 20240On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House.
The tense back and forth reflected what has become a wide rift between the two...
January 12th, 20241By Avraham Shama, Opinion contributor to THE HILL
Israel will likely be found guilty of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza by the International Court of Justice in the Hague. If so, the court could call for an immediate ceasefire and consider compensation for Gazans.
Even if the court would not find guilt, Israel...
January 12th, 20240Letter to the editor:
The government of South Africa — whose people know a thing or two about the evils of apartheid — is charging Israel with the crime of genocide before the International Court of Justice. Israeli spokespersons and apologists may scream and howl in protest, but, as Pretoria’s legal brief documents, the...
January 12th, 20240This article was written shortly before Israel assassinated the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut on January 2. The assassination is a further illustration of the Israeli government's desire to escape the consequences of its disastrous war in Gaza, by igniting a regional...
January 12th, 20240On Thursday, South Africa accused Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza and demanded that the U.N.'s top court order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating military campaign in the Palestinian enclave.
On the first of two days of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa said Israel's offensive,...
January 5th, 20240One day last week, the New York Times printed two separate articles describing Israeli and Palestinian reactions to the ongoing war that, together, paint a disturbing portrait of where we are three months after October 7.
The piece about Israelis was headlined “Oct. 7 Is Forcing Israelis to Rethink Their Identity,” with the subhead...
January 5th, 20240Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned, just weeks after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill also left her position following the university leaders’ congressional testimonies on anti-Semitism last month.
Along with backlash surrounding how she addressed anti-Semitism on campus, Gay is resigning amid a growing wave of...
