SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES BY: JOSEPH LEVINE The debate over the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (B.D.S.) movement against Israel has been one of the most contentious in American political culture for more than a decade. Now, given the tumultuous and deadly events of the past several months, it is likely to heat up further. … Continued
SOURCE: DAILY STAR BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri Monday called for an Arab League meeting to garner funds for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a Parliament statement reported, after the United States’ recent decision to cut its funding for the agency. “We have money we can support the Palestinian people with, for steadfastness and unity,” Berri … Continued
Two Arab Americans were among the 2018 class of Detroit Crain’s 40 Under 40. Rana Elmir, Deputy Director of the ACLU of Michigan and Khali Rahal, Assistant County Executive for Wayne County. Each year Crain’s names 40 leaders under 40 who are building and contributing to durable, and supportive communities in the greater Detroit area. … Continued
SOURCE: NBC NEWS BY: F. BRINLEY BRUTON AND LAWAHEZ JABARI DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — Except for a few anxious tears, the first day of class at Dheisheh Basic Girls School was an exuberant occasion. Teachers kissed each other on both cheeks. Teenagers in green-and-white striped smocks hugged. Younger girls — white rubber bands … Continued
SOURCE: NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY NNA – Caretaker Foreign Minister, Gebran Bassil, on Monday said that the US fresh decision to end all funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) tampers with the peace process, stressing that Lebanon will fight refugee settlement through political and diplomatic channels to conserve the Palestinian right of … Continued
By: Bishara A. Bahbah/Arab America Featured Columnist I am writing this column from Palestine where the two top concerns on people’s minds are the news of the latest US assault on UNRWA and its decision to cut off funding to the refugee agency. More importantly, the suspicion that such a move is directly related to … Continued
By: Michael Springmann/Arab America Contributing Writer Pop singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey has just canceled her September 7 appearance at Israel’s Meteor Festival. (She had pulled out of an earlier engagement in 2014.) According to Variety, the entertainment trade paper, “the organizers are said to be livid”, especially since Del Rey (real name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) … Continued
By: Michael Springmann/Arab America Contributing Writer According to the Arab Center, Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, participated in an August 28 discussion at the pro-Israel Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. After accepting the Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick Award for Statesmanship from the Washington, D.C.-based “think-tank”, Haley went on to attack the UN, … Continued
The Chaldean State during the 11th-6th centuries B.C. controlled an area along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iraq By John Mason/Arab America Contributing Writer The Chaldean faith is an old Middle Eastern Christian sect that is little known in much of that part of the world and even less so … Continued
SOURCE: SEVEN DAYS BY: KYMELYA SARI In the American classic The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois asked, “How does it feel to be a problem?” The book, written during the Jim Crow era, consisted of several essays on the black experience, including the rise of the black church, education in the … Continued
‘With the Netanyahu government ramping up the racism, our struggle for survival is more precarious than ever.’ Palestinian Arab MPs in the Knesset commend Jeremy Corbyn for his ‘longstanding solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world’ SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN As members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, representing our fellow Palestinian Arab citizens of … Continued
SOURCE: DEFENSE NEWS BY: CHIRINE MOUCHANTAF BEIRUT — The Trump administration has in recent months been quietly working on creating a new security alliance comprised of six Gulf Arab states plus Egypt and Jordan, unofficially known as the “Arab NATO,” and also dubbed the “Middle East Strategic Alliance,” or MESA. The six Gulf Arab nations … Continued
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