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...
