SOURCE: MY SALAAM BY: JOANNA TAN SINGAPORE: The first car to arrive in Tarim, a historic town in the Hadhramaut Valley of Yemen, was an American Studebaker. It had traveled across oceans and continents to get there — but not without the help of one prominent Arab family in Singapore. “Tarim’s first car was bought … Continued
The new law can only play into the hands of those extremists among Israeli Arab politicians who are doing their level best to prevent the successful integration of Israel’s Arab citizens into Israeli society SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: MOSHE ARENS Just as some of us had been hoping that the Jewish nation-state bill had disappeared in … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: OLIVER HOLMES Israel is in the throes of political upheaval as the country’s ruling party seeks to pass legislation that could allow for Jewish-only communities, which critics have condemned as the end of a democratic state. For the past half-decade, politicians have been wrangling over the details of the bill that … Continued
SOURCE: AHRAM ONLINE BY: ABDEL MONEIM SAID Football is a vast school that teaches people not just how their national teams can become champions, but how their countries can realise progress in all fields, writes It was a sad week for all Arabs after the four Arab teams competing in the World Cup suffered a … Continued
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA BY: ALI YOUNES Israel’s Knesset disqualified a bill that called for all citizens to be treated equally, rejecting the argument it must recognise the rights of its Arab minority as equal to the Jewish majority. The text of the bill stated its objective was “to anchor in constitutional law the principle of equal … Continued
SOURCE: HAARETZ BY: IRIS LEAL Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be an Arab in Israel. What’s the day-to-day most banal sense of such an existence? And when I think about this, shamefully not often enough, I imagine that the feeling resembles a ponderous self-awareness that a person has to carry around almost all the … Continued
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian cleric said Friday the state-sanctioned broadcaster owes an apology to the country’s Arab minority for insulting them in a recent program. Semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari, prayer leader of the Khuzestan provincial capital Ahwaz, as telling worshippers that state TV … Continued
SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: BEN LYNFIELD In the run-up to Friday’s Land Day events marking the anniversary of the 1976 shooting deaths of six Arab protesters against land expropriations, Arab MKs on Wednesday charged that today there is also a severe attack against Arab property. “Sometimes I feel that every day is becoming land day … Continued
SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: BEN LYNFIELD The lecturer at Tel Aviv University touched on a broad range of topics about the Arabs in Israel: the Nakba of 1948, the fatal Land Day protests of 1976, surging violent crime in Arab communities today, to name a few. “After the Second Intifada, the police did not … Continued
By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Called by the Persians the ‘golden seeds of the sun’ and once a favoured aphrodisiac food in the Court of James I, apricots are one of the earliest fruits known to man. Some even believe that they were possibly the ‘apples’ in the Garden of Eden. Through the centuries, … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: BEN LYNFIELD Relations between Jewish Israelis and citizens of the Arab minority are plummeting, with each side losing faith in coexistence and becoming less tolerant of the other, according to a key survey. The latest poll overseen by Haifa University sociologist Sammy Smooha, who has chronicled the attitudes of Israeli Arabs … Continued
SOURCE: NEWSWEEK BY: JACK MOORE Arab lawmakers in Israel will boycott Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on Monday, citing the U.S. decision to recognize the contested city as the capital of Israel. Trump’s second-in-command is on the final stop of a four-day Middle East visit. His arrival has aroused … Continued
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