BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer On April 5, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), formally recognized April as National Arab American Heritage Month in Congress. She rose on the House floor last week to recognize the Arab American community during the month of April, saying, “Arab Americans embody the core values of our country through their initiative, work … Continued
BY: Yara Jouzy/Contributing Writer Americans of different faiths, races, and ethnic backgrounds, such as Sikhs, Muslims, Arabs, Jews, and Latinos continue to be targeted in the recent surge in hate crimes. Videos have been surfacing on social media platforms of people being verbally abused on the subway or graveyards being desecrated or mosques being burned … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Did Keith Ellison lose the DNC chairmanship because of multiple threats from the pro-Israel lobby? Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a leading candidate for the Democratic National Convention chair, lost the vote on Saturday to Obama’s former Labor Secretary Tom Perez by a margin of 235-200. Many supporters of Ellison, who is … Continued
BY: Julia Jahanpour/Contributing Writer Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) explained how he believes white terrorist attacks are “one-offs” that the government can’t do anything about on Tuesday morning. In the midst of President Trump’s travel ban and spoken condemnation of radical Islamic terrorism, CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked the congressman why white terrorism wasn’t being brought to … Continued
BY: Diego Reyes/Contributing Writer Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Muslim politics and Islamophobia have quickly become two of the most discussed topics in the nation. A perceived war between the West and the Muslim world have been moved to the forefront of American consciousness, prompting the nation’s leaders to respond. In his attempt to … Continued
By Zaid Jilani The Intercept A trio of top GOP senators have introduced legislation that would cut security, construction, and maintenance funds for U.S. embassies around the world in half until the president moves the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. In 1995, Congress passed a law requiring the federal government to move the U.S. embassy from Tel … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer The first substantive resolutions introduced in Congress this year were about helping Israel – not Americans. The 115th session of Congress began this week and to almost no one’s surprise, the legislative focus was on Israeli needs above those of taxpaying Americans. Congress displayed stronger acts of loyalty to the state … Continued
By Nahal Toosi POLITICO The House voted overwhelmingly to rebuke the United Nations for passing a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction, a bipartisan slap that also targets the Obama administration while signaling a rocky road ahead for U.S.-U.N. relations under soon-to-be-President Donald Trump. The House measure, which passed 342-80 on Thursday, is likely to … Continued
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