Friday June 22, 2012
In light of Congressional moves to strip refugee status away from most Palestinians, it’s important to look at the current situation of the Palestinian diaspora. A recent report by American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) documents the plight of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, who must bear the worst refugee conditions in the region. Read More »
Monday June 18, 2012
Boards of education are not typically the scene of heated political races, but this year’s Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) election will be a notable exception. Because many textbooks used nationwide are printed in Texas, the decisions made by that state’s board resonate across the country and affect the education of millions of children. Read More »
Wednesday June 13, 2012
With international attention rising on the state of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails (thanks to their brave non-violent protests), there is no way around this one for Israel: either stop denying Palestinian detainees their basic rights or face growing international criticism and condemnation. Read More »
Thursday June 07, 2012
Why would the State Department’s involvement hinder an American citizen’s efforts to visit her family in Palestine? Read More »
Tuesday June 05, 2012
Sometime between the beginning and end of their busy schedules today, residents of New Jersey's newly-drawn 9th congressional district will cast their ballots for one of two candidates in the Democratic primary. Arab Americans in the district, including residents of Clifton, Paterson and Passaic counties, will do their civic duty as well. Many of them, however, are unaware of an attempt to question the motives for their political participation in the primary. Arab Americans in NJ-9 are mobilizing for this election and are throwing overwhelming support behind Bill Pascrell, a candidate they’ve known and respected for years. Read More »
Tuesday June 05, 2012
The U.S. government has a serious responsibility here to tell Israel, a country that draws unprecedented (indeed, too much) military aid and diplomatic support from the U.S., that they must treat our citizens with respect. Read More »
Friday June 01, 2012
When President Obama first came into office he promised this country that some fundamental and drastic changes would take place. He also promised the same scope of change in his Cairo speech to Arabs and Muslims across the globe, and because of the unprecedented gesture, people believed him. Today Arabs and Muslims, especially those in the Middle East, are still waiting for that fundamental change to come. Read More »
Friday May 25, 2012
The Palestinian refugee problem remains one of the key issues of the Arab Israeli conflict, but Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) has a new idea to solve it: make them disappear. Read More »
Thursday May 24, 2012
Something rather outrageous took place in Tel-Aviv last night. Israeli right wingers (with the participation of politicians from Likud and other rightwing parties) staged a rally to express their dissatisfaction with the growing number of African refugees and migrant workers in Israeli cities. Shortly after, the rally turned into mob violence, attacking African residents, destroying their property, and looting their possessions. Read More »
Thursday May 24, 2012
Yousef Munayyer has an interesting piece in The New York Times today about the structural inequalities faced by Palestinians in Israel, and the ways it affects everyday life for Palestinians on both sides of the Green line Read More »
Thursday May 17, 2012
It probably wouldn’t be news to anyone who reads this blog that American elected officials come under regular pressure from groups like AIPAC to take an unreasonably one-sided “pro-Israel” stance. But when the President of the moderate wing of the Israel lobby, Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street, says that American politicians refrain from criticizing Israel because they’re “intimidated” by the more hardline “pro-Israel” groups, it makes headline news. Read More »
Tuesday May 08, 2012
On Tuesday, May 15th, hundreds of people are expected to gather in front of the White House at 6:30pm to commemorate the Nakba, marking the 64th anniversary of Palestinian dispossession. Read More »
Friday May 04, 2012
In the early days of the Arab uprisings last year, many commentators were quick to assert that the mass movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and beyond had no foreign policy objectives; this great piece by Nicholas Noe of MidEastWire demonstrates that this is clearly not the case. Read More »
Friday May 04, 2012
Joe Walsh just put his mind to work again, and he came up with a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
Thursday May 03, 2012
Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert has yet again displayed his creative ability to completely flip an issue to reflect a viewpoint directly counter to conventional wisdom or reason. Yesterday, an article in The Washington Examiner gave us a glimpse of what Congressman Gohmert is likely to focus on when the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Gohmert is Vice Chair –hears testimony from FBI director Robert Mueller. As the article alluded, Gohmert will likely express concern that criticism in the wake of the months-long controversy involving the FBI’s use of bigoted anti-Muslim and anti-Arab training materials may be leading the FBI to overcompensate and appease critics , which Gohmert believes will compromise the FBI’s ability to effectively fight terrorism. Read More »
Friday April 27, 2012
If you haven’t done so already, please take two minutes today to email "60 Minutes" to thank them for their brave coverage and urge them to resist pressure to distort it. Read More »
Thursday April 26, 2012
The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman penned a surprising piece on Tuesday about Peter Beinart’s controversial book The Crisis of Zionism. Read More »
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Last week, Secretary Clinton overruled Ros-Lehtinen’s hold on Palestinian aid and agreed to disburse the full $147 million package. It’s a rare move for any administration to make, but signals an increasing awareness of the important role that aid has played in securing American interests among the Palestinians. Read More »
Monday April 23, 2012
By Jeffrey Wright
Palestinian Christians are eager to leave the West Bank for the same reasons most Palestinians are: the Israeli occupation. Read More »
Thursday April 05, 2012
A few months ago, I wrote a blog entitled “Can We Say Apartheid?” making the case for the accuracy of the term in describing Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians. But some of those who acknowledge the technical legitimacy of the apartheid analogy have disputed the utility of invoking it, thus giving rise to the follow-up question of whether or not we should be using the term. Read More »
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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