Posts tagged with "war on gaza"

Education

Local communities continue to support Palestinians against Israeli brutality for the seventh week in a row

November 24th, 20230 While the city of Detroit joined the growing list of American cities in solidarity with the Palestinian people, communities and students in the Detroit area continued their protest activities against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for the seventh week in a row. A student demonstration at the University of Michigan resulted in...

Palestine

Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand

November 17th, 20230 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile...

Other Voices

The Strip is already occupied: The two Gazas that Israel cannot break

November 16th, 20230 The ongoing discussions on the Israeli military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether Israel is planning a long or a short-term military reoccupation of the Strip. Israelis themselves are fueling this conversation, with 41 percent of Israelis wanting to leave Gaza following the war and another 44 percent wanting the Gaza...

Palestine

White House suggests “pauses” in Israel’s war on Gaza to get people out

November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the White House said it was exploring a series of ceasefires in the Israeli war on Gaza to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire. National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary...

Palestine

U.S. House passes Republicans’ Israel-only aid bill, which faces dead end in Senate

November 3rd, 20230 WASHINGTON, 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...

Palestine

Following an Israeli airstrike, crowded Gaza hospital struggles to treat wounded children

November 3rd, 20230 BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — The gray film covering the faces of children rushed to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza Thursday made it hard to distinguish between the living and the dead. After two Israeli airstrikes flattened an entire block of apartment buildings in the Bureij refugee camp and damaged two U.N....

Opinions

Time to listen: What is Gaza telling us about Palestinian priorities

November 2nd, 20230 Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation in the entire Middle East and to re-center Palestine as the world’s most urgent political crisis for years to come. Since the establishment of Israel, facilitated by Britain and...

Opinions

The Gaza manifesto: Why America’s old Middle East is crumbling

November 1st, 20230 History will not forgive those who have remained silent, exhibited or expressed “balanced” positions — or worse, defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in an already besieged, impoverished and overcrowded Gaza. This is not a cliché declaration, a desperate attempt aimed at jolting the world, especially the Western world, to show...

Palestine

Israel lies about civilians losses to conceal its colossal failure. Here is the proof

October 27th, 20233 According to a list published in the Israeli newspapers, a total of 14 children and seven elders among the 768 Israeli dead from the October 7 attack. The list of names, ages and profession of those who were killed are published here as well. Since the Hamas onslaught on the Southern area of Israel on October 7, Benjamin...

Local

U of M students walk out in support of Palestinians, clash with Israel’s supporters on campus

October 27th, 20230 ANN 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...

Palestine

More than 400 Capitol Hill staffers call for cease-fire In Gaza

October 27th, 20230 By Rowaida Abdelaziz/ Huffpost Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter Thursday urging Congress to back a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in light of “anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise nationwide.” The letter, which HuffPost has learned has been signed by 411...

Palestine

Israel is losing support as fury grows over its brutality in Gaza

October 27th, 20230 Jordan’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...

Community

Bloomfield Hills High School students to participate in nationwide walkout for Palestine on Wednesday, October 25th

October 24th, 20231 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI — On Wednesday, October 25th, at 2:15 p.m., Students Organized for Palestine, a student-led group at Bloomfield Hills High School will be participating in the nationwide walkout for Palestine in front of the school's main entrance. The group released the following statement on Tuesday, alongside several student-led...

Palestine

40 faith leaders & activists hold a pray-in at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ office calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

October 24th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, a group of about 40 multiracial Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders and activists occupied House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ Rayburn office to lead a pray-in for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the only moral choice. The Democratic leader’s staunch support of Israel and refusal to call...

Community

Livonia couple trapped in Gaza, appeals for help

October 20th, 20230 In the heart of the ongoing war on Gaza, a family from Livonia, Michigan, has found themselves trapped for the last 12 days. Zakaria Alarayshi and his wife, Laila, residents of Livonia for the past 23 years, had embarked on a visit to their homeland just days before the crisis erupted. They now remain stranded, unable to return to...

Community

Illinois man charged with hate crime in fatal stabbing of Muslim boy, wounding his mother

October 20th, 20230 PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, IL – An Illinois man was charged with hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother in an attack that targeted them for their religion and as a response to the Israeli war on Gaza, officials and Muslim rights activists said on Sunday. Wadea Al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times with...

Iran

Biden to seek $14 billion in military aid for Israel as invasion of Gaza nears

October 20th, 20230 On 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...

Palestine

France uses tear gas on banned pro-Palestinian rally as Macron calls for calm

October 13th, 20230 PARIS – 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,...

Palestine

Iran says crimes against Palestinians to receive response from axis

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...

Community

Arab Americans rallying in Dearborn in support of Palestinians in Gaza call for peace and justice

October 13th, 20230 DEARBORN – Chanting "Free Free Palestine", more than 1,200 Arab Americans jammed an auditorium at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn on Tuesday evening to show their support for Palestinians as the death toll increased in Gaza after Israeli strikes. Speakers at the Dearborn rally focused on decades of...

Palestine

Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon

October 13th, 20230 On Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions in its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, saying the use of such weapons puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injury. Asked for comment on the allegations, Israel's military said it was "currently not aware of the use of weapons...

Palestine

Israel tells all Palestinian civilians to leave Gaza City within 24 hours

October 13th, 20230 On Friday, Israel's occupation forces called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks near the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion. "Now is a time for war," Israeli Minister of War Yoav Gallant said on Thursday as Israeli warplanes continued pounding...

Palestine

Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, “smart” Hezbollah

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...

Other Voices

A day to remember: How the “Al-Quds Flood” altered the relationship between Palestine and Israel forever

October 11th, 20231 Regardless of the precise strategy of the Palestinian group Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring Palestinian military campaign, deep inside Israel, on Saturday, October 7, was only possible because Palestinians are simply fed up. 17 years ago, Israel imposed a hermetic siege on the Gaza Strip. The...

Other Voices

The Gaza war is lost: But will Netanyahu concede?

October 11th, 20232 Israeli 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...

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Israel’s common denominator: Why Israel will continue to bomb Gaza

May 20th, 20190 On May 4, Israel launched a series of deadly airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, prompting a response from various resistance groups. At least 25 Palestinians were killed and nearly 200 people wounded in the Israeli attacks. Four Israelis were also killed by Palestinian rockets. The clashes were instigated by Israel, when the...

Opinions

L’Oreal does not celebrate diversity

January 26th, 20180 By Ruqaya Izzidien British beauty blogger Amena Khan announced that she has pulled out of L'Oreal's latest haircare campaign, after a series of tweets in which she criticized Israel in 2014 re-surfaced. In a statement, Khan explained that she withdrew from the campaign - a move that L'Oreal said it agrees with - because the...