Last week, 54 members of the House of Representatives, led by Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Congressman Jim McDermott from Washington state, signed a letter to President Obama asking his administration to lift the blockade on Gaza. In the letter, the Representatives said "the unabated suffering of Gazan civilians highlights...
December 29th, 20090
The Arab American News' top headlines and front pages of 2009
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• Community protests Gaza genocide
• Arab American quarterback to play for Wolverines
• District denies Arabic will be banned at Fordson
• Jewish group selling olive oil to benefit Palestinian farmers
• MLK rally highlights support for...
Yes, I am a survivor, for I have managed to survive all the scary accounts of the Holocaust: the one about the soap, the one about the lamp shades, the one about the camps, the mass shooting, the one about the gas and the one about the death march. I just managed to survive them all.
In spite of all these fear inflicting stories, that...World
The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, etc. To those who say we're not really making progress, many might point to the idea that at least we've eliminated slavery.
But sadly that is not the truth.
One hundred forty-three years after...National Election
As U.S. combat troops redeployed to the outskirts of Iraqi cities on June 30, well-staged celebrations commenced. The pro-U.S. Iraqi government declared "independence day" as police vehicles roamed the streets of war-weary Iraq in an unpersuasive show of national rejoicing. U.S. mainstream media joined the chorus, as if commemorating the...Local
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — When the administration of President Barack Obama formally abandoned the longstanding U.S. "war on terror" — perceived by some as a codeword for "war against Islam" — there were hopes of a new relationship between the United States and the Muslim world after eight long years of political...
June 19th, 20090
As this is being written, official announcements in Iran today of a landslide victory by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are being met with cries of "fraud" by supporters of his principal challenger, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
The New York Times is reporting that "at least one person had been shot dead in...
NEW YORK (IPS) — "I have never experienced anti-Semitism myself, but it's a phrase that always seems to be in the air," begins Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir's lively new documentary "Defamation". "Three words seem to appear over and over again: Holocaust, Nazi, anti-Semitism."
This phenomenon will be equally familiar to viewers in...
April 18th, 20090
Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir
Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir, despite being indicted on March 4 on seven counts of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, was given a "hero's welcome" by the Arab League Summit hosted by Qatar last week. The 22 nations warmly supported Al Bashir with a resolution opposing the...
I used to think the U.N., both in principle and in practice, was the closest thing we'd have to a world government, coming together to tackle the challenges faced by all humanity. Now I feel that the U.N. is an utterly useless organization when it comes to protecting human rights and enforcing security.
U.S. President Barack...
March 7th, 20090BEIRUT — A potentially explosive murder investigation which has gripped the Middle East for four years moved from Lebanon to the Netherlands this week with the launch of a landmark international tribunal.
Supporters of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon, visit his grave in Beirut.
The tribunal, established...
January 30th, 20090
Palestinian students study at the yard of al-Fadilah Islamic school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 26, 2009. The school was destroyed in an Israeli air strike during Israel's 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
The recent tentative ceasefire may have halted Israel's military thrashing of...
The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped — for now — but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods.
What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, starting at 11:30 am on 27 December 2008, will remain forever engraved in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other...Local
A Palestinian medic carries the body of a girl killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza January 6, 2009. Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip killed more than 30 Palestinian civilians on Tuesday, medical officials said, and international efforts to secure a ceasefire focused on an Israeli demand to prevent Hamas from rearming....Local
A protester participates in a candlelit rally to denounce Israel's attacks on Gaza, in front of the Israel embassy in Seoul January 6, 2009. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
One is often baffled by the ironies of international relations and the alliances they foster. Take for example the Israeli colonial settlement that has declared war on the...
January 9th, 20090The streets of downtown Detroit were painted red, green and black on Thursday, Jan. 8 as more than 1,000 protested Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Pro-Palestinian protesters lined Michigan Avenue by the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit on Thursday as passing motorists honked in support of their cause....
December 31st, 20080Second demonstration scheduled for Friday, 5 p.m. in front of Dearborn City Hall.
DEARBORN – Several thousand demonstrators marched, chanted and waved flags, signs and banners along Warren Avenue in Dearborn on Tuesday, protesting Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that have killed more than 370 people since Saturday, including at...
December 28th, 20080DEARBORN - Arab American organizations called the community to action on Saturday in condemning and demanding and end to Israeli airsrikes on Gaza that began Saturday, killing more than 280 as of Sunday afternoon.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli Embassy in London December 28, 2008, against the Israeli...
December 28th, 20080
Community leaders call for actions to stop the massacre against Palestinians in Gaza
Bodies of Palestinian policemen lie on the ground of their destroyed police compound following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008. Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed at least 275 Palestinians, health...
"Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine," by William A. Cook, Netherlands, 2008
The cover of "Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine" tells a significant story on its own: from a Palestine of green dotted with a few Jewish settlements, mainly in the north, transiting through the UN partition plan...In Our Opinion
October 16 is an anniversary that should hold considerable interest for American journalists who have written in support of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" – the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Sixty-two years ago, on Oct. 16, 1946, Julius Streicher was hanged.
Streicher was one of a group of 10 Germans executed that day following the...
October 11th, 20080Alice Rothchild is the latest peace activist to visit the Detroit area in Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit fall activities directed at educating the Jewish community and the public on the continuous genocide being practiced against Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
The reception, presentation and book-signing event for...
October 4th, 20080
BIRMINGHAM — Under the title "Peace, Palestine and US Policy - 1948-2008," Friends of Sabeel-North America held a three-day informative conference about the Israeli occupation of Palestine at the First Presbyterian Church from Sept. 25-27.
Over 500 attendees were treated to presentations that featured world-renowned authors and...
Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and exclusive descendant of a Jewish people which has existed since it received the Torah in Sinai. According to this myth, the Jews escaped from Egypt and settled in the Promised Land, where they built the glorious kingdom of David and Solomon, which subsequently split into the...Other Voices
In a press release issued August 27, 2008, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit (JCRC) criticized my article "Detroit Jewish Federation: Celebrating racism and making money at it" as "despicable." The article was published in the August 9-15, 2008, edition of The Arab American News and is available on the...World
John McCain said it first: "In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations." George W. Bush said it, too: Russia's way is not the "way to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century". And Condoleezza Rice on August 19 said it: "Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it...Opinions
Trivia time: This Middle Eastern country has long denied a genocide happened in the past. It has worked, in public and behind the scenes, to convince others this genocide didn't happen and undo any efforts to recognize the event as such.
Now, what country am I talking about? If your answer is Iran, that's understandable, given the...In Our Opinion
On Thursday, August 21, 2008, one of the country's wealthiest communities will celebrate the Nakba ? the violent ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestine in 1948 ? in a poor neighborhood in Detroit. And if all goes well, a large group of folks, representing metro Detroit's large Black and Arab communities and other Palestinian...
