May 17th, 20240THE HAGUE – On Thursday, South Africa urged the U.N.'s top court to order a halt to Israel's offensive on Rafah, saying attacks on Gaza city "must be stopped" to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people.
South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, asked judges to order Israel to "immediately, totally and...
May 17th, 20240Several protests on Dartmouth College's campus have sparked, with a more recent one leading to 90 arrests, including students, faculty and community members. The university, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, has seen student protesters' presence grow on campus to voice their support for the Palestinians and call for...
May 17th, 20240DETROIT – Organizations, collectives, movement leaders, trade unionists, community members, students and intellectuals, artists and cultural workers, and activists will convene in Detroit from May 24-26 for the People’s Conference for Palestine.
The conference comes as Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza completes seven months, with...
May 17th, 20240Photos and story by Andrew Mullin
ANN ARBOR – The student encampment at the University of Michigan entered its fourth week on May 13, continuing despite the end of the semester, rising concerns about police raids and university pushback.
The Gaza solidarity camp at the University Diag currently stands with dozens of tents, with...
May 17th, 20240OXFORD, U.K. – On Tuesday, just over a week since the establishment of Oxford’s “Liberated Zone” for Gaza, more than 500 members of the faculty and staff at the University of Oxford have now pledged their support in writing for the solidarity encampment and its demands. More signatures are being added in support daily.
The...
May 8th, 20240TORONTO — Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Thursday the encampment at Montreal's McGill University should be dismantled as more students erected pro-Palestinian camps across some of Canada's largest universities, demanding they divest from groups with ties to Israel.
The Canadian protests come as police have been arresting...
May 8th, 20241By Andrew Mullen
For months, student activists at the University of Michigan have called for their school to cut financial ties to the state of Israel, only to be met with rejection from university officials.
However, the students refuse to be ignored.
Following the lead of activists at Columbia University and other schools across the...
May 6th, 20240The mass protests at dozens of U.S. universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about anti-Semitism.
Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their own futures and very safety, because of some pathological hate for the Jewish people. They are doing so in a complete...
May 4th, 20240Three vocal Arab Americans against the Israeli genocide in Gaza who have been demanding a ceasefire in the war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have filed petitions to challenge two Democratic members of Congress and a pro-Israel Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan.
The candidates cited frustration over their...
April 26th, 20240ANN ARBOR — Roughly 40 University of Michigan student protesters set up an encampment at the Diag, a large open space on the campus, as part of a pro-Palestine protest.
Reports state that the earliest protesters appeared around 6 a.m. on Monday, April 22. The encampment included tents and Palestinian flags as well as signs with...
April 26th, 20240THE HAGUE – The discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals, said by Palestinian authorities to contain hundreds of bodies, have triggered calls by the U.N. rights chief and others for an international investigation.
While not defined under international law, a mass grave is a burial site containing multiple bodies, the existence...
April 19th, 20240NEW YORK — Police officers arrest more than 100 people following a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University. According to law enforcement officials, protesters were arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal trespass. They'd camped on the lawn in efforts to stand as the "Gaza solidarity Encampment", according to reports.
Mayor...
April 12th, 20240Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza on 1 April as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” of a kind that “happens in war.” Obviously, Israel was lying. In fact, this entire so-called war in Gaza — which is in reality a genocide — has been based on a series of lies, some of...
April 12th, 20240DEARBORN – Anti-American chants from some participants in the International Day of Al-Quds or “International Jerusalem Day” march held in Dearborn last Friday sparked wide condemnation by local Arab and Muslim Americans. Several local officials and leaders in the Dearborn area were quick to condemn the chants, while the right-wing...
April 6th, 20240WASHINGTON D.C. — The White House canceled an iftar dinner after Muslim American leaders declined the invite due to President Biden's support for Israeli war on Gaza.
Due to the invitees' rejection, the White House held a smaller dinner with a meeting on administration policy.
Wa'el Alzayat, leader of a Muslim Advocacy...
March 30th, 20240By Jamal I. Bittar
After numerous unsuccessful efforts spanning five months during Israel's destructive conflict in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council finally approved a resolution on Monday, urging for an immediate ceasefire. The United States, previously the sole obstacle to such a decision, opted not to veto the resolution...
March 30th, 20240Ireland plans to file an argument in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, according to the Irish government, making the move as the country has strongly condemned Israel’s actions against civilians in Gaza.
South Africa has brought a case against Israel in the I.C.J., the United...
March 30th, 20240THE HAGUE — on Thursday, Judges at the International Court of Justice unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza.
The ICJ said the Palestinians in Gaza face worsening conditions of life, and famine and starvation...
March 29th, 20240DEARBORN — On the 21st anniversary of its founding last Thursday, the well known Lebanese social media site BintJbeil.org held its annual iftar dinner in the Summit Banquet Center. Officials with the organization estimated that close to 1,000 guests attended the dinner, including elected officials and community leaders.
The event's...
March 22nd, 20240From new fundraisers to event cancellations for extra reflection, Ramadan looks especially different this year.
The Ramadan Suhoor Festival in Dearborn usually attracts thousands of people to the Fairlane Town Center. Founder Hassan Chami said he canceled the event this year because he doesn’t think the joy is justified, even if the...
March 21st, 20240DEARBORN — During an exhibition showcasing some of his work, international artist Haroutioun “Harout” Isack Bastajian was presented with the Art and Culture Award by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture.
The Lebanese artist of Armenian ethnicity decorated the interior of the Islamic Center of America prayer room and his artwork has...
March 15th, 20240HOLLYWOOD — Protesters in Hollywood filled the streets the night of the Academy Awards, denouncing the United States' funding of the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The protest, near the Dolby Theatre, was organized by various organizations, including the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Centro CSO, Black Lives Matter LA,...
March 15th, 20240The United Nations has condemned Israel's intentional starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, declaring that famine is imminent.
Following an unwarranted and violent massacre of Palestinians retrieving flour from aid trucks, the United Nations experts said that “Israel is not respecting its international legal obligations, is not...
March 15th, 20240“All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being killed and wounded by the...
March 15th, 20240DEARBORN – Starbucks cafés in the Dearborn area are witnessing an unprecedented decline in customers’ demand for the chain’s most famous products, just as they are elsewhere in the U.S and around the world. This decline comes in conjunction with continuing campaigns on social media platforms to boycott the company, which is...
March 15th, 20240“America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time” — Jimmy Carter, July 16, 2013
“The government in Washington represents powerful interest groups, not American citizens.” — former Reagan assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, February 6, 2016
The statements above, remember, were made BEFORE the...
March 8th, 20240Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom.
In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through “unconditional negotiations.”
This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he cared enough to pay lip...
March 8th, 20240
Hamtramck City Councilman Khalil Refai unveiled Palestine Avenue on Thursday afternoon after the City Council passed Resolution 2023-184 in December to rename a section of Holbrook street as a symbolic gesture of remembrance and support to the people of Gaza.
The honorary Palestine Avenue is located between Buffalo and Saint Aubin...
