By Al Jazeera US President Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for a visit to the White House, in the first phone call between the two leaders since Trump’s inauguration on January 20. Trump invited Abbas “to visit the White House soon to discuss ways to resume the [Palestinian-Israeli] political process”, Wafa, the … Continued
By Karoun Demirjian The Washington Post President Trump’s controversial pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to Israel earned the support of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday with all but one Democrat opposed to his nomination. David M. Friedman’s bid to serve as the next ambassador to Israel will now go to the full … Continued
By ALLI JOSEPH SALON On Monday, President Donald Trump signed his revised executive order travel ban away from the usual TV cameras, instead allowing three of his cabinet members to announce changes from the original order. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the president was “exercising his rightful authority to keep our people safe.” The … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer President Trump has signed new executive orders on Monday after a federal appeals court unanimously blocked his ban on all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. The new executive orders will supersede the January 27 orders, which banned all citizens of Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Iran from entering the U.S. … Continued
South China Morning Post AFP Museums across New York are waging a cultural war on prejudice in Donald Trump’s America, flexing the soft power of art and photography to compound the citywide climate of protest. From talks about Islamic art to a Muslim exhibition, swapping Picasso and Matisse for Iranian, Sudanese and Iraqi artists, and … Continued
By Jeremy TORDJMAN AFP Arab-Americans have long sought to be recognized as a distinct ethnic group by the US census. But with President Donald Trump in the White House, many are now not so sure it’s a good idea. “The current political climate complicates the issues and raises red flags,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for … Continued
By Melissa Etehad Los Angeles Times Shortly after President Trump finished his joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening, Salam Al-Marayati got to work. The Sunland, Calif., resident placed his laptop on his dining room table and began a Facebook live-video feed, discussing Trump’s moderate tone and whether it was divisive. During Al-Marayati’s 21-minute video … Continued
By Matt Zapotosky The Washington Post A Department of Homeland Security report assessing the terrorist threat posed by people from the seven countries covered by President Trump’s travel ban casts doubt on the necessity of the executive order, concluding that citizenship is an “unreliable” threat indicator and that people from the seven countries have rarely … Continued
By Dean Obeidallah CNN Donald J. Trump hates a lot of things, from “fake news” to intelligence leaks to even Nordstrom. But my money says the thing Trump hates the most is being laughed at. And one of the worst comedic beat downs Trump ever took on national TV was in 2011, the last time … Continued
By Carol Kuruvilla The Huffington Post After much pressure, President Donald Trump finally conceded this week that the rise in anti-Semitism around the country “has to stop.” But some American Muslims are wondering ― does the president have our back, too? Since Trump entered the White House, mosques have been vandalized and even set on fire, a prominent … Continued
By RUMANA AHMED The Atlantic In 2011, I was hired, straight out of college, to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council. My job there was to promote and protect the best of what my country stands for. I am a hijab-wearing Muslim woman––I was the only hijabi in the West … Continued
By Rashid Khalidi The Nation Once again, the future of Palestine is being decided behind the back of the Palestinians. Once again, they have been made invisible. In 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was being crafted in the British cabinet, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann had direct access to key decision-makers. It was a privilege not … Continued
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