August 15th, 20250DEARBORN – Dozens of Arab American children and their families held a rally on Tuesday evening in solidarity with the hungry children of Gaza, in front of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. They carried empty pots and food containers in protest against Israel’s starvation policies imposed on the Strip’s residents since...
August 15th, 20250In the ashes of World War II, the world told itself a comforting story. The Nazi regime was crushed, Adolf Hitler was dead and the ideology of racial supremacy, industrialized slaughter and ruthless domination had been defeated. The Holocaust was declared a moral turning point for humanity. The refrain “Never Again” became a pledge...
August 8th, 20250The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However, the delay in publishing such an indictment is troubling and adds to an existing problem of politically motivated decision-making processes that have, in their own right, prolonged the ongoing...
August 8th, 20250The president of J Street, a U.S.-based pro-Israel advocacy group, has acknowledged that Israel has broken the international genocide convention in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.
“I have… been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the...
August 8th, 20250Israel’s far-right government decides to expand war to fully occupy Gaza as Lebanon faces crisis over Hezbollah disarmament proposal pushed by the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Occupation of Gaza
After 10 hours of deliberations, Israel’s Security Cabinet — in the early hours of Friday, August 8 — approved Prime Minister...
August 7th, 20250In a recent and highly charged interview that has reverberated across international political discourse, Tucker Carlson sat down with Professor John Mearsheimer, one of the most respected and controversial voices in American foreign policy analysis, to discuss the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. The conversation, released as...
August 1st, 20250Dearborn, MI — At a press conference Wednesday morning, the Imams Council of Michigan called on Jewish leaders in the state to break their silence and publicly oppose Israel’s ongoing siege and starvation campaign in Gaza, which the council and most human rights groups have recognized as genocide.
Standing before reporters at the...
August 1st, 20250Two leading Israeli human rights groups have accused Israel of “committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”, becoming the first such organizations to make the claim.
B’Tselem said in a major report released on Monday that it came to that “unequivocal conclusion” after an “examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza...
August 1st, 20250Amid reports that hundreds of Palestinians have died from malnutrition in the besieged Gaza Strip since May, a group of prominent Jewish Democratic lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (New York) and Senator Adam Schiff (California) — is spearheading efforts to pressure President Trump’s administration to...
July 27th, 20250LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is continuing to target student activists supporting Palestinian rights, despite mounting criticism in recent weeks, through what the TAHRIR Coalition — a broad coalition of student organizations at the University of Michigan — describes as an ongoing campaign of intimidation and...
July 27th, 20250Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine's future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the “day after” its genocide in Gaza.
The latest, bizarre iteration of this strategy proposes fragmenting the occupied West Bank into so-called “emirates”, starting with the “emirate of Hebron.”
This...
July 27th, 20250The events of this week in the Arab World have painted a grim picture and heightened pessimism about the prospects of achieving the peace promises touted by President Trump during his election campaign.
On one hand, Washington has allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extreme government to continue stalling ceasefire...
July 27th, 20250DEARBORN — Community leaders held a press conference on Wednesday demanding urgent humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza — a starving population.
At the Henry Ford Centennial Library, local leaders expressed their dissent — and pleas to the federal government to help — over the worsening degrees of starvation the Palestinian...
July 18th, 20250As ceasefire negotiations in Gaza continue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seized the opportunity to continue his policy of deflection from internal crises, aiming to capitalize as much as possible on the new geopolitical reality created by Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”
This time, however, he’s doing so through the...
July 18th, 20250
As Congress grills CUNY’s chancellor, the terminated Brooklyn College faculty say Palestine activism is “the only thing we have in common.”
By Sanya Mansoor
Four adjunct professors at the City University of New York say the university fired them because of their activism for Palestine. The administration’s decision...
July 11th, 20250At the conclusion of a four-day visit to Washington, which included daily meetings with President Trump and senior members of his administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed conditional approval of a temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza and a partial prisoner exchange with Hamas. He also threatened to resume his...
July 6th, 20250Amnesty International issued a report on Thursday detailing that a controversial Israeli- and U.S.-backed system to distribute aid in Gaza uses starvation tactics against Palestinians to continue to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s war with Hamas.
The U.K.-based human rights group condemned Israel and the Gaza...
July 5th, 20250The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.
These two assertions,...
June 27th, 20250NEW YORK — A federal judge in New Jersey has ordered the release of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention, marking a major civil rights victory for pro-Palestinian advocates amid an escalating crackdown by President Trump’s administration, which has accused campus demonstrators of...
June 27th, 20250NEW YORK CITY – Zohran Mamdani has caused a political earthquake in the Big Apple.
The Indian-origin immigrant and staunch advocate for the Palestinian cause who became a U.S. citizen only a few years ago, scored a sweeping victory in the Democratic Party’s primary for the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday.
His win paves the...
June 27th, 20250DETROIT — A group of pro-Palestinian students is suing Wayne State University in federal court, alleging that the university violated their constitutional rights during a solidarity encampment held on campus on May 23, 2024, to protest the Israeli war on Gaza and demand divestment from companies tied to the Israeli government.
The...
June 20th, 20250The world stands on the precipice of a catastrophic war as the conflict between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran accelerates beyond containment. Following Israel’s surprise airstrikes on Tehran, an unprecedented and bold provocation that claimed the lives of senior Iranian military commanders, Iran retaliated with precision...
June 20th, 20250It took Iran only a few hours to recover from Israel’s devastating “opening strike” on Friday, June 13, which killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists. The Islamic Republic responded forcefully and directly, launching waves of heavy missile attacks that struck deep inside Israel — including central Tel Aviv — in...
June 20th, 20251GRAND RAPIDS – “When Iran is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” rang out loud alongside the pounding rain on Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids Wednesday evening.
Despite the heavy rain that poured throughout the evening, at least 30 demonstrators among community members and activist groups rallied in an...
June 15th, 20250ANN ARBOR — The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) is demanding an independent and transparent investigation into allegations that the University of Michigan deployed undercover investigators to surveillance, intimidate, and harass pro-Palestinian students on campus.
“U of M Ann Arbor being...
June 15th, 20250President Trump’s repeated public appeals to Israel not to launch a military strike on Iran failed to dissuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from igniting a major regional conflict in a desperate bid to save his faltering government — and potentially drag Washington into the chaos. This comes just days before the sixth round of...
June 13th, 20250By Sunita Sohrabji
In a powerful show of solidarity, leading Black and Latino civil rights organizations held a joint press conference June 11 to denounce what they called “authoritarian overreach” by the Trump administration.
Their remarks, delivered during a virtual press conference, expressed outrage over the deployment of...
June 6th, 20250The past week brought no breakthroughs in the multiple flashpoints across the Middle East. Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza raged on, alongside escalated military aggression on Lebanon and Syria. Meanwhile, negotiations between the United States and Iran made no meaningful progress, as Tehran insisted on its...
