January 5th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, a Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit to protest the administration’s continuous military support of Israel’s war on Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad.
Tariq Habash, a Biden administration appointee who had...
January 5th, 20240BEIRUT — On Wednesday, the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said it "cannot be silent" after the killing of Hamas' deputy leader in the suburb of Beirut and warned that his heavily armed forces would fight to the finish if Israel chose to extend war from Gaza to Lebanon.
Israeli forces meanwhile kept up their aerial and ground assaults...
December 22nd, 20230Israel's Eilat Port has seen an 85 percent drop in activity since Houthi military forces in Yemen stepped up attacks on ships heading to Israel in the Red Sea, the port's chief executive said on Thursday.
The Houthis are playing an escalating role in the conflict in the Middle East, also firing drones and missiles at Israel in a...
December 22nd, 20230GAZA — When the Israeli occupation army entered the Gaza school where Yousef Khalil was sleeping near his family, they began shooting indiscriminately, killing nine people, including children, he said, pointing to bullet-pocked, bloodstained walls.
His account, which Israel's military says it is looking into, comes after the killing...
December 22nd, 20230DEARBORN – The Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) has urgently called on the Biden administration to exert an effort to save the lives of Zahra Sckak, the mother of an active U.S. military service member, and his American uncle, Farid Sukaik, both trapped in Northern Gaza.
Fadi Sckak has spent the last month making phone calls...
December 22nd, 20230DETROIT – On Tuesday, the Wayne County Commission passed a symbolic resolution calling for a ceasefire amid the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza, after weeks of delay and heated discussion.
The Commission's statement was also a brief one, "condemning all acts of violence against the Israeli and Palestinian people, and mourning the loss of...
December 22nd, 20230The Israeli war on Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history.
In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more...
December 20th, 20230When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians.
Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor...
December 15th, 20230GENEVA — On Thursday, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said that crowds of hungry people were stopping its aid trucks in Gaza and helping themselves to the food, making it almost impossible to continue delivering aid.
The U.N. World Food Program has said half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million is starving as Israel's...
December 15th, 20230The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a public service announcement regarding potential threats across the nation from various actors during the upcoming winter season.
This announcement comes following the continued violence between Israel and Hamas. The FBI warns of the...
December 15th, 20230
Hamtramck will rename one of its streets “Palestine Avenue” in symbolic support of the people of Gaza. Hamtramck City Council members voted on the measure Tuesday night, in their final meeting of the year.
“I know it's not going to change anything, but it's just showing what Hamtramck stands for and what the community here...
December 15th, 20230On Wednesday, Israel announced its worst combat losses in more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza, and faced growing diplomatic and international isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory.
Intense fighting between Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers was under...
December 15th, 20230RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank — A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians published Wednesday shows a rise in support for Hamas, which appears to have ticked up even in the devastated Gaza Strip, and an overwhelming rejection of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, with nearly 90 percent saying he must resign.
The findings by a...
December 15th, 20230On Wednesday, Israelis said that their army should not back off its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N. General Assembly's ceasefire call, the growing list of troop casualties and a spiraling Palestinian death toll in Gaza.
Israel's military suffered one of the deadliest days in the two-month-old Gaza war on Tuesday,...
December 8th, 20230Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – The churches of Palestine have announced the cancellation of all festive Christmas celebrations in an expression of unity with Gaza and rejection of the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, limiting them to masses and prayers.
In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity...
December 8th, 20230Arab American and Muslim American anger over President Biden's handling of the Israeli war on Gaza could be endangering his re-election in the majority of 2024 swing states.
Driving the news: Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania all have notable pockets of these populations. There aren't reliable statistics on how...
December 8th, 20230By Damita Menezes, (NewsNation)
Osama Siblani, the publisher of The Arab American News, expressed deep dissatisfaction with President Biden’s approach to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in an “On Balance” interview raising concerns of Biden’s reelection chances in key swing states.
Biden faces multiple challenges as he...
December 8th, 20230A growing number of Americans are donning the keffiyeh, the distinctive patterned scarf that's closely linked with Palestinians, to demand a ceasefire to Israel's attacks on Gaza or to signal their support for Palestinians.
Sales of the scarves have jumped since the Israel war on Gaza that began in October, U.S. distributors say, even...
December 8th, 20230Last year, Yahya Sinwar told a rally in Gaza that Hamas would deploy fighters and rockets in a fierce strike on Israel, the nation that imprisoned him for 23 years before he was freed and rose to a leadership role in the militant group.
The speech by Hamas' leader in Gaza to thousands of cheering supporters bore the hallmarks of...
December 1st, 20230On Wednesday, the United Nations called for the international community to move towards a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying Jerusalem should serve as the capital of both states.
"It is long past time to move in a determined, irreversible way towards a two-state solution, on the basis of United Nations...
December 1st, 20232On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the Gaza Strip was in the midst of an "epic humanitarian catastrophe", as calls grew for a ceasefire to replace the temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants.
"Intense negotiations are taking place to prolong the truce – which we strongly welcome...
December 1st, 20230GENEVA — More people could die from disease than from bombings in the Gaza Strip if its health system is not repaired, a World Health Organization spokesperson said, warning of a surge in infectious diseases and diarrhea in children.
In figures deemed reliable by the United Nations, Gaza health authorities say more than 15,000 people...
November 24th, 20230Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Scream star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israeli war on Gaza that some deemed "anti-Semitic."
Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the upcoming Scream VII, acknowledged Barrera’s exit from the horror franchise. The...
November 24th, 20230CAIRO – On a recent evening in Cairo, a worker cleaned tables in an empty McDonald's restaurant. Branches of other Western fast-food chains in the Egyptian capital also appeared deserted.
All have been hit by a largely spontaneous, grassroots boycott campaign over Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip since the surprise Hamas...
November 24th, 20230By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South.
And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective...
November 20th, 20190An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but “when.”
The answer came on...