February 9th, 20240In a sharply worded rebuke likely to postpone any talk of expanding the Abraham Accords until after the U.S. election, Saudi Arabia said unequivocally it will not normalize relations with Israel as desperately hoped for by the Biden administration in Washington, and would only consider it if the war in Gaza stops and an independent...
February 2nd, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C.— Half of U.S. adults say Israel’s 15-week-old military campaign in Gaza has “gone too far,” a finding driven mainly by growing disapproval among Republicans and political independents, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Broadly, the poll shows support for...
January 27th, 20240
Protesters at Columbia University were allegedly sprayed with a hazardous chemical while attending a pro-Palestinian “divestment now” rally on Low Steps on Friday, Jan. 19, according to nearly two dozen students who reported a foul smell, physical symptoms or property damage after the protest.
The Columbia Spectator...
January 19th, 20240FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida Marriott Hotel canceled a Muslim group’s conference at the last minute after a protest group claimed the coalition was "promoting Hamas, terrorism and anti-Semitism."
The South Florida Muslim Federation, a coalition of about 30 mosques and Muslim groups, said Friday that it was told by the...
January 12th, 20240Letter to the editor:
The government of South Africa — whose people know a thing or two about the evils of apartheid — is charging Israel with the crime of genocide before the International Court of Justice. Israeli spokespersons and apologists may scream and howl in protest, but, as Pretoria’s legal brief documents, the...
January 12th, 20240On Thursday, South Africa accused Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza and demanded that the U.N.'s top court order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating military campaign in the Palestinian enclave.
On the first of two days of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa said Israel's offensive,...
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,...
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...
November 10th, 20230NEW YORK – Walmart Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the U.S. retailer, has pledged $1 million to an Israeli disaster relief and emergency medical service organization.
Walmart's donation, reported by the Jerusalem Post on Friday, joins a list of similar funding efforts by big U.S. corporations to provide relief for Israelis injured...
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...
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, 20230Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah was offered a chance to express horror at the October 7 Hamas killing and abduction of Israelis.
How did she feel, she was asked in a CNN interview, “as an Arab, as a Palestinian, a human being, a mother?”
The monarch launched into an impassioned denunciation of Israel’s subsequent bombing...
October 25th, 20230On October 25, Gilad Erdan, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said the Israeli government would refuse visas to U.N. officials. The statement comes the day after Erdan called for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to resign from his position for being passionate toward Palestinians.
“The U.N. secretary-general,...
October 20th, 20230On Thursday, President Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defense minister told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group.
In a televised White House speech late on Thursday that also addressed Ukraine's effort to repel Russia's...
October 13th, 20230PARIS – French police used tear gas and water cannons to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home.
Macron's interior minister had earlier banned pro-Palestinian protests,...
October 13th, 20230
Under a barrage of more than 3,000 rockets, hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Oct. 7, on motorbikes, paragliders and four-wheel drives, unleashing unprecedented attacks on nearby towns and villages of Jewish settlers.
Hundreds of trained Palestinian militants appeared...
October 13th, 20230 On Thursday Israel and the White House condemned remarks by Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel.
Trump, a former Republican president who is the front...
October 11th, 20232Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats to Israel's “security.”
The Israeli military, too, has contributed to the Israeli hasbara that Tel Aviv would be able to face several threats at all fronts, from Gaza, to the West Bank, to Lebanon...
September 28th, 20230Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity.
For Israel, however, the recognition by UNESCO of Jericho as a “World Heritage Site in Palestine” complicates its mission of erasing Palestine, physically and figuratively, from existence.
The decision was described by Israel’s foreign...
September 13th, 20230The humiliation of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) on July 10 was not the first such episode. Sadly, it will not be the last.
Indeed, the stripping of five women in front of their children, parading them naked around their family home and then stealing their jewelry by an Israeli...
The United Nations is urging the Israeli government to refrain from the mass deportation of Eritreans after clashes over the weekend involving refugees. The U.N. warned the response would “contravene international law.”
On Tuesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman, William Spindler, told reporters in Geneva,...
September 4th, 20230The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar has obtained a classified diplomatic cable confirming that Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met David Barnea, the head of the Israeli Mossad, to discuss “practical steps to normalize relations” between the two countries last year in Amman, Jordan.
The meeting specifically focused on “the...
August 23rd, 20230Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, a global cold war has also kicked in.
As a strong ally of Washington and the home of a massive constituency of Russian, Ukrainian and East European Jews, it was only natural that Tel Aviv would be at the heart of the global conflict.
When the war began, Israel was then ruled by an odd...
August 18th, 20230An escalating war of words between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon echoes heightened tension at the border, with each vowing to return the other to the "stone age" and preparing for a possible conflict even as they deny seeking one.
Israel and Hezbollah have avoided war across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since their last major clash...
July 22nd, 20230On Wednesday, the U.S. and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), setting the conditions for Israel’s entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.
An Israeli statement late on Wednesday quoted its national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi as saying U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides and Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog signed what...
July 21st, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Republican-led resolution reaffirming its support for Israel with strong bipartisan approval — an implicit rebuke of a leading Democrat who, over the weekend, called the country a “racist state”, but later apologized.
The resolution, introduced by Rep....
June 9th, 20230After signing a military decree on May 18, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has informed the U.S. Biden administration that it will not turn the area into a new settlement.
The latter revelation was reported by Axios on...
