October 29th, 20260The Michigan Senate race between the Democratic nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, and his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, is this year’s most important election.
It’s significant, on a number of levels, not the least of which is that El-Sayed is an Arab American Muslim of Egyptian descent. Prior to this, we’ve had four Arab Americans...
October 2nd, 20260When I first saw footage of Gaza doctor Munir al-Bursh and his family kneeling beside the white-shrouded body of his son, surrounded by mourners, I thought it was an old video. It was not.
My conclusion, however, was understandable. In December 2023, only months after the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the al-Bursh family was...
September 25th, 20260Page Six Hollywood recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable.
The article described an increasingly open struggle between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel forces within the entertainment industry....
September 25th, 20260ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan is one of six campuses examined in detail in a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International USA that accuses colleges of restricting pro-Palestinian speech and responding to protests with excessive discipline and police force.
The report, released September 23,...
September 18th, 20260This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable — or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe.
On September 8, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. announced their intention to introduce national...
September 18th, 20260DEARBORN — The removal of rapper Macklemore from British singer Ed Sheeran’s tour after he chanted “Free Palestine” onstage during one of its New Jersey concerts has sparked widespread outrage in artistic and public circles across the United States, reaching Dearborn, where Mayor Abdullah Hammoud invited Macklemore to perform in...
September 18th, 20260Middle East Weekly Briefing: September 11–17, 2026
War on Iran
Trump signals that the seven-month Iran war may be approaching an end
President Trump said on September 16 that the conflict was “hopefully” nearing its conclusion. He is expected to meet leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries during the upcoming...
September 11th, 20260There comes a point when military strategy stops being strategy and becomes obsession. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have reached that point. For years, Netanyahu has presented himself as the indispensable guardian of Israel’s security, insisting that overwhelming military force is the only language Israel’s enemies understand. Yet...
August 28th, 20260In what, I believe, will be seen as this year’s most significant election; Dr Abdul El-Sayed won a victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. It was a close contest — a nail-biter, as we say — but it was an important win that marks a watershed moment in U.S. politics.
It was the first time that Israel’s genocidal war in...
August 14th, 20260It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza.
During a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu stated with unambiguous language: "Israel rejects the...
July 31st, 20260About one week before Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary election, the two Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, faced off Monday night in their second and final televised debate, sharply contrasting their positions on Israel, immigration enforcement, health care, corporate influence and...
July 31st, 20261The words "killed", "injured", "maimed" and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.
Take, for example, a headline like: "13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded." Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy, the news itself becomes less shocking...
July 31st, 20260Evidence keeps piling up that the bipartisan consensus on U.S. support for Israel is dead. Signs appear almost daily that Israeli behavior and the pro-Israel lobby’s heavy-handed tactics for browbeating elected officials into unquestioning support for Israel are being rejected by both Democratic voters and elected officials. Events...
July 24th, 20260Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries.
The first incident occurred on July 8 when U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his delegation were detained by armed, illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West...
July 17th, 20260Watching elements of the Democratic Party establishment respond to insurgencies is fascinating.
After Senator Bernie Sanders won several early contests in the 2020 presidential nominating process, the establishment panicked. In 2016, Sanders had almost beaten their favorite, Hillary Clinton, before they put their thumb on the scale,...
July 10th, 20260NEW YORK — A new national survey suggests that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, underscoring the growing complexity of political attitudes toward Israel within the American Jewish community.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
July 3rd, 20260In today’s Middle East, it’s important to recognize that Israel is completely out of control, and no one has the will to rein them in.
This should have been understood back in July 2024, in the waning days of the Biden administration, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington to address a joint session of...
July 2nd, 20260European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human rights. That, of course, would hold true if she genuinely cared about such values herself.
In response to the June 19 signing of the memorandum of understanding between the United...
July 2nd, 20260Whether Israelis will ever comprehend the irreparable damage inflicted upon their country’s reputation by their U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, is a moot point. The damage Israel has done to itself through its barbaric practices in occupied Palestine is simply impossible to overcome.
Danon, however, utilizes a peculiar approach to...
June 26th, 20260
Regime Change is a devastating new book from two New York Times reporters; an extraordinary account of American chaos and decline at the hands of a madman and his enablers. Read it and weep.
By Martin Pengelly
There are shocking headlines to be drawn from Regime Change, the new blockbuster by New York...
June 19th, 20260WEST BLOOMFIELD — Less than a week after two “Voices for Palestinians” signs were installed along Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield Township, the Oakland County Road Commission removed the official signs on Sunday in response to pressure from members of the local Jewish American community, citing their proximity to Temple...
June 19th, 20260DETROIT — Delegates attending the 39th Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers voted Thursday to prohibit the union from investing in Israel Bonds, marking a major victory for pro-Palestinian activists within the labor movement and signaling a significant shift in the political direction of one of the nation’s most...
June 19th, 20260Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals — both within his coalition and across Israel's political spectrum — are preparing to capitalize on his growing weakness.
Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who also...
June 12th, 20260DEARBORN — Community members, elected officials, faith leaders and activists gathered at Dearborn PEACE Park East on June 11 for the opening of the “Wall of Tears”, a large-scale public art installation created by American artist Phil Buehler that memorializes thousands of Palestinian children killed in Gaza since Oct. 7,...
June 12th, 20260Gaza requires urgent international attention.
What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little...
June 4th, 20260It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza.
Since Internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin — who was killed along with all of his sons during the ongoing Gaza genocide. I asked her a simple question: what do Gazans want?
My purpose was to...
June 4th, 20260The Middle East is no longer drifting toward instability — it is now fully inside it. What once appeared to be a collection of separate conflicts has merged into a broader regional crisis. Across the Middle East — from Gaza to the Strait of Hormuz — the coming decade is no longer a quest for peace, but a struggle for...
May 29th, 20260For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-shattering event. On the surface, it looks as if the days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of far-right extremists are numbered. The reality, however, is far more...
