January 5th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian enclave.
"Those are allegations that should not be...
January 5th, 20240THE HAGUE — South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court alleging that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide.
The filing and Israel’s decision to defend itself at the International Court of Justice set up a high-stakes showdown before a panel of judges in the Great Hall of...
January 5th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, a Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit to protest the administration’s continuous military support of Israel’s war on Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad.
Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had...
January 5th, 20240The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not.
Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier — as done in 2006 — hundreds of Israelis,...
January 5th, 20240By Judge Mark Plawecki
Michigan Democratic U.S Senate candidate Hill Harper has claimed that he was offered $20 million by an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) member to drop out of said race and run instead against U.S Representative Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress. Condor has never met nor,...
December 22nd, 20230DETROIT – On Tuesday, the Wayne County Commission passed a symbolic resolution calling for a ceasefire amid the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza, after weeks of delay and heated discussion.
The Commission's statement was also a brief one, "condemning all acts of violence against the Israeli and Palestinian people, and mourning the loss of...
December 8th, 20230Democratic U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar said he's investigating how his X account was hacked overnight after he deleted what he said was an unauthorized post decrying the "terrorist state of Israel" and "genocide" in Gaza.
"I was just hacked, and a misleading tweet was sent from my account," Thanedar wrote on X, formerly Twitter, around...
December 1st, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than a dozen state lawmakers and activists in the U.S. — including actor Cynthia Nixon from Sex and the City — have started a hunger strike calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The five state lawmakers taking part in the hunger strike beginning Monday are Delaware State Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, New...
November 24th, 20230Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Scream star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israeli war on Gaza that some deemed "anti-Semitic."
Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the upcoming Scream VII, acknowledged Barrera’s exit from the horror franchise. The...
November 24th, 20230By 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...
November 16th, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than two dozen Democratic members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter urging the Biden administration to call for a ceasefire and end the Israeli genocide of Palestinians throughout Gaza. More Democrats now support ending the Israeli war against Palestinian armed groups that is wiping out innocent...
November 12th, 20230Oman’s U.S. embassy rushed a diplomatic cable to the White House warning that the unwavering support of President Biden for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians throughout Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation.”
According to CNN, the cable was drafted by Muscat’s second-highest U.S. official and read, “We are...
November 10th, 20230DETROIT – 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...
November 10th, 20230WASHINGTON, 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...
November 3rd, 20230WASHINGTON, 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...
November 3rd, 20230GENEVA – 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....
November 3rd, 20230WASHINGTON, 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...
November 2nd, 20230Gaza 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...
November 1st, 20230History 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...
October 31st, 20230By 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...
October 27th, 20231The 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...
October 27th, 20230ANN ARBOR — On Wednesday, students at the University of Michigan walked out in support of innocent Palestinians under attack in Gaza in a walkout with other students across the nation – all condemning universities and politicians for supporting Israel.
Thousands of students gathered on the Diag at the University of Michigan on...
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...
October 24th, 20232BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI — On Wednesday, October 25th, at 2:15 p.m., Students Organized for Palestine, a student-led group at Bloomfield Hills High School will be participating in the nationwide walkout for Palestine in front of the school's main entrance. The group released the following statement on Tuesday, alongside several student-led...
October 24th, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, a group of about 40 multiracial Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders and activists occupied House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ Rayburn office to lead a pray-in for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the only moral choice.
The Democratic leader’s staunch support of Israel and refusal to call...
October 20th, 20230WASHINGTON D.C. — Jewish American activists held a sit-in in the U.S. Capitol to call for a ceasefire amidst ongoing violence in Gaza on Wednesday, October 18. The group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has organized this sit-in demanding U.S. lawmakers step in and stipulate a ceasefire from an already-drafted resolution.
To display...
October 20th, 20230Protesters in Dearborn condemn Israeli bombing of the Baptist Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing more than 500
DEARBORN — As the brutal Israeli attack on Palestinians in Gaza continues, thousands walked on Wednesday in Dearborn in an effort to spread love, support and rally in support of Gazans and for a free...
September 8th, 20230
By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo
At the zenith of the mass protests in Egypt on January 25, 2011, Twitter, Facebook and other Western-based social media platforms appeared to be the most essential tools for the Egyptian Revolution.
Though some observers later contested the use of the terms "Twitter Revolution" or "Social Media...
