June 8th, 20180
By Hanan Daqqa
Fairfax County Times
"You never know where something takes you as a writer… you think you want to write about one thing and it leads you to another path."
These are the words of Mona Mansour, a Lebanese American playwright who set out to write a play about her father's choice not to go back to...
June 6th, 20181On February 20, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people.
But, interacting with hundreds...
May 25th, 20180Sixty Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed by international law.
Fifty more were killed since March 30, the start of the “Great March of Return”, which marks Land Day.
Nearly 10,000 have been wounded and maimed in between these two...
May 23rd, 20180TEL AVIV — Israel is pressing the Trump administration to recognize its sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Wednesday, predicting U.S. assent could come within months.
Interviewed by Reuters, Intelligence Minister Israel Katz described endorsement of Israel’s 51-year-old hold on the...
May 22nd, 20180THE HAGUE ― Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki asked prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to launch a full investigation into accusations of Israeli human rights abuses on Palestinian territory, saying the evidence was “insurmountable”.
Maliki submitted a so-called “referral”, giving the...
May 18th, 20180By Mohamed Mohamed
“It was like a dream.”
That is how my maternal grandfather, Abu Ahmad, described his memories of our village near Safad in the Galilee in the northern part of Palestine, after I had curiously asked him about it as a kid. He told me it was cradled within a lush, beautiful landscape, where cherry and...
May 18th, 20180The actions of the Trump administration concerning the Palestinian people have become more shameful by the day.
In December, President Trump announced his intention to fulfill his ill-guided campaign promise to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, gifting Israel a de facto recognition of the Holy City as its capital. Not only did...
May 18th, 20181By Alaa Elassar
“It’s important to recognize that we are here out of extreme heartbreak and outrage, but also to remember that this outrage is not just as a result of the recent killings in Gaza, but through the everyday experiences in Palestine." - Rozina Gilani, a Jewish Voice for Peace organizer
ATLANTA — It began...
May 18th, 20180By Brandon Sapienza
NEW YORK — On Monday, May 14, the NY4Palestine Coalition and community leaders held a march from 72nd Street to 82nd Street along Fifth Avenue in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in protest of President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
The move has been met with outrage...
May 18th, 20180When Google Earth was initially released in 2001, I immediately rushed to locate a village that no longer exists on a map, which now delineates a whole different reality.
Although I was born and raised in a Gaza refugee camp and then moved to and lived in the United States, finding a village that was erased from the map decades...
May 18th, 20180DETROIT – On the 70th anniversary of what is considered the greatest catastrophe in Palestine, drones painted the sky with trails of smoke grenades and snipers perched on the Israeli side of the Gaza border pelleted thousands who were protesting against those responsible for the historic tragedy – the Nakba, in Arabic.
More than...
May 16th, 20180AMSTERDAM - The office of the prosecutor of the world’s permanent war crimes court on Wednesday expressed “grave concern” about escalating violence in Gaza against Palestinian civilians and said alleged crimes could be subject to an investigation.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire during protests on Monday,...
May 15th, 20180CANNES, France - Hollywood actor Benicio del Toro joined Palestinians at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday in a demonstration against the Israeli army’s killing of Palestinians on the Gaza border.
Sixty people were killed on Monday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, by Israeli gunfire or tear gas, in what Palestinian...
May 14th, 20180GAZA — Israeli troops shot dead dozens of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border on Monday as the United States opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, a move that has fueled Palestinian anger and drawn foreign criticism for undermining peace efforts.
It was the bloodiest single day for Palestinians since the Gaza conflict in...
May 11th, 20180The Gaza border protests must be understood in the context of the Israeli occupation, the siege and the long-delayed “Right of Return” for Palestinian refugees. However, they should also be appreciated in a parallel context: Palestine’s own factionalism and infighting.
Factionalism in Palestinian society is a deep-rooted ailment...
May 11th, 20180"Many of the ICA's congregants are Arab Americans who have fled war and poverty caused by Israeli aggression in their homeland." - Suhail Bitar, whose relatives were slain during the 1996 Qana massacre
DEARBORN – It was clear it wasn’t going to be a regular Sunday prayer service at the Islamic Center of America (ICA), the...
May 7th, 20180JERUSALEM ― U.S. Embassy road signs went up in Jerusalem on Monday ahead of next week’s opening of the mission in accordance with President Donald Trump’s recognition of the city as Israel’s capital.
Trump says he is making good on U.S. legislation and presidential pledges dating back decades. Other world powers have not...
May 4th, 20180RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was re-elected as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee on Friday, as the veteran leader sought to renew his legitimacy while installing loyalists who he hopes will eventually continue his mission.
The expected reappointment...
May 4th, 20180Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded last Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests at the Gaza-Israel border.
Yet as the casualty count keeps climbing — nearly 45 dead and more than 5,500 wounded — the deafening silence also continues. Tellingly, many of those who long...
April 13th, 20180DEARBORN – On March 30, Land Day 2018, the Israeli army shot more than 1,000 protesters killing 17 of them, according to multiple reports.
On April 8, members of the Arab Student Union at the University of Michigan-Dearborn drew bodies outlined in chalk, with the names of the victims written inside them, on the sidewalk between the...
April 13th, 20181By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
While the U.S. media is focused on the coverage of President Trump’s “blurry” tweets bashing Syria and other fellow politicians along with the news about Khloe Kardashian’s cheating boyfriend, major events in Gaza, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon have gone almost...
April 6th, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
ANN ARBOR – On Saturday, March 31, the University of Michigan’s Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), in conjunction with Students for Justice in Palestine (SPJ) at both Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University, hosted PALIFEST — A celebration of...
April 6th, 20180Music unites Palestinians when politicians fail. In fact, while for years the collective calls for "Palestinian unity" has gone unheeded, Palestinian music has continued to bring Palestinians closer.
Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on March 24, after a decade-long battle with cancer, brought grief to...
April 6th, 20180 By Diana Buttu
Israel's killing of 18 Palestinian protesters in Gaza last Friday was entirely predictable.
It was also entirely avoidable. The victims were taking part in the annual Land Day march commemorating the 1976 killing of six Palestinians who were protesting Israel's confiscation of thousands of acres of their...
April 3rd, 20180RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said in a published interview that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, another public sign of an apparent thawing in ties between the two countries.
Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation state in at least part of what they consider their...
March 30th, 20180The "deal of the century" is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in more detail why the long-anticipated plan of the administration of President Trump has no basis in reality.
Netanyahu told his cabinet that there are "no concrete details" to...
March 23rd, 20180On March 13, while on the way to the besieged Gaza Strip, the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was targeted by two 33-pounds bombs.
Hamdallah was visiting Gaza, through the Israeli border checkpoint, Erez, to open a large sewage treatment plant that— if allowed to operate regularly— will make life...
March 16th, 20180If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as Israel's occupation of Palestine is concerned?
Netanyahu, who is currently being charged with multiple cases of corruption, misuse of government funds and public...
