Wednesday April 04, 2012
On Monday, April 2, Israeli security forces once again raided the offices of Al-Quds University’s Institute of Modern Media, shutting down the office and arresting several key staff members. The crackdown – sanctioned by the Israeli Minister of Internal Security – was aimed at blocking the launch of an online multi-media community network called Hona Al-Quds. Read More »
Tuesday April 03, 2012
Last week, the Arab American Institute (AAI), along with J Street and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, hosted a Capitol Hill Briefing on the Arab Peace Initiative (API) 10 Years Later. Speakers included AAI President Jim Zogby, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Carnegie’s Marwan Muasher, and Yitzhak Rabin’s son Yuval Rabin. Read More »
Friday March 23, 2012
Today, the Baltimore Sun reported that WYPR-FM has dropped Managing News Editor Sunni Khalid after 9 years on the job. Khalid was placed on probation last month for posting the following on his personal Facebook page: "I, for one, have had enough of this pandering before the Israeli regime… The war-mongering toward Iran has, once again, distracted the world from Israel's brutal military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights." Read More »
Thursday March 22, 2012
In the four events, I spoke to over 400. We signed hundreds of letters of concern to local Congresssmen and Senators, developed strategies to pass an anti-war plank and a Palestinian rights plank at the Iowa State Democratic Convention, and mapped out a plan to lobby Congressmen to sign onto Congresswoman Barbara Lee's House Resolution promoting negotiations and not war as the way to resolve tensions with Iran. Read More »
Wednesday March 21, 2012
On the nuclear issue, Slavin described the sanctions imposed on Iran as “draconian,” saying they were strangling Iran’s economy, and accredited them to Netanyahu’s “hysteria” which led to unusually harsh sanctions to avoid war. On Netanyahu and Obama, Slavin read things differently from many pundits, saying that Netanyahu had effectively yielded to Obama’s red lines during his AIPAC speech... Read More »
Friday March 16, 2012
It’s hard to believe that it has been 9 years since Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza. 9 years since she bravely stood in the face of an Israeli bulldozer attempting to demolish the home of a Palestinian family in Rafah, and 9 years since the driver of that massive D9 Caterpillar bulldozer disregarded her humanity and literally drove over her. Read More »
Wednesday March 14, 2012
AAI has launched a web-based Arab opinion poll section featuring data from the past ten years on a range of issues. Among the polling data released today are numbers showing the Syrian regime is facing increased regional isolation and that Bashar al-Assad's favorable ratings are at an all time low. Read More »
Monday March 12, 2012
These attacks will only further erode the Palestinian people’s already shaken belief in the viability of peace, brokered with a partner that continues to treat the Palestinian territories without any regard for sovereignty, or even human life. It also erodes the legitimacy of the United States as a critical party to future peace negotiations, for failing yet again to sympathize with the struggling and suffering of the Palestinian people even as a mere formality. Read More »
Wednesday March 07, 2012
With exception of Ron Paul, the GOP presidential candidates all spoke at the AIPAC policy conference yesterday. All of the three candidates delivered a similar message on Iran, taking the opportunity to hit out at president Obama's policies. Iran's nuclear program was the clear focus of the conference, overshadowing any other issue, including the peace process, by far. Despite similar messaging on Iran, the candidate speeches each have their own unique takeaways. I've outlined the ones I thought were the most important in this post. Read More »
Wednesday March 07, 2012
President Obama is in a tough spot. On the one hand, he wants to bring about a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians (which requires pressuring Israel), as well as avoid a catastrophic war with Iran (which requires pushing back on AIPAC’s drum beat). On the other hand, he needs to make the Israel lobby happy with him in the lead up to the election. Read More »
Tuesday March 06, 2012
By Jeffrey Wright
Overall, Netanyahu’s speech sounded like that of a man eager for confrontation. Read More »
Friday March 02, 2012
This weekend will be a special one for Washington, DC, as the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is about to host its largest annual policy conference here. In the spirit of “Occupy Wall Street,” hundreds of activists will be gathering in DC this weekend to Occupy AIPAC. Read More »
Tuesday February 28, 2012
It is indeed shameful that Dershowitz is going to be using his leverage to try to silence voices that he disagrees with, but the bigger travesty is that someone as manifestly dishonest as he is still holds sufficient credibility to be able to wage any campaign in the first place. Read More »
Friday February 17, 2012
Had Adnan been an Israeli facing potential death while in Palestinian captivity, the international uproar would have been more significant and more widely covered by the mainstream media. It is now on us to make sure this garners the international attention it deserves, in the hopes that Adnan can see a healthy return to his family. It would be a stain on our collective conscience to allow Adnan to die quietly as yet another victim of the occupation. Read More »
Thursday February 02, 2012
Until the White House learns to consider Palestinians as equal partners in this process – and stop relying on the “expertise” of officials who refuse to recognize them as such – things will likely continue along as they have for the past thirty years. Read More »
Monday January 30, 2012
by Abraham Hassan
Palestinian American Republican Abraham Hassan follows up on his question from the CNN Florida debate on January 26th. Mr. Hassan, a Republican from Jacksonville, FL asked the candidates how they would achieve peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Referring to a controversial statement made by Newt Gingrich weeks earlier where he said Palestinians were an "invented people," Mr. Hassan asserted before the debate audience: "As a Palestinian American Republican, I'm here to tell you we do exist." Read More »
Friday January 27, 2012
Read AAI's statement on the continued advisory role of Dennis Ross. Read More »
Monday January 23, 2012
The RNC thinks they just did Israel a favor by whitewashing the illegality of its occupation of the Palestinian territories, but failed to notice that they just demanded that all these Palestinians living under occupation be granted equal rights as Israelis. In effect, the RNC just endorsed the maximalist position of the most ardent supporters of Palestinian rights: the one-state/one-man/one-vote solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
Thursday January 19, 2012
By shielding Israel from the criticism and pressures required to bring it to its senses so it can pursue a more constructive course with the Palestinians, so-called supporters of Israel are ensuring that the state will continue down this self-destructive path of perpetual conflict. Read More »
Friday January 13, 2012
You’d think someone in that government would’ve noticed by now that violence is futile and that a new course must be taken. 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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