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Go topBy Colby Cyrus/Contributing Writer This piece is a paid announcement about a candidate running for an elected position with ADC’s National board. Any views or opinions seen here are not representative of Arab America. A native Iraqi seeks election to the National Board of the Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). Yasir Shallal says he is running … Continued
Daniel Gil/ Contributing Writer The world and industry of journalism has undergone massive change which has reshaped the profession in recent years. The advent of the internet and information technologies have revolutionized the way people seek and absorb their information compared to even just a decade ago. However, the role of the journalist, someone tasked … Continued
The American Federation of Ramallah Palestine (AFRP) condemns the U.S. House Appropriations Committee’s key provisions included this week in the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2018 that support the occupation of Palestine by providing unequivocal support to Israel. The bill provides $3.1 billion in security assistance to Israel — a country … Continued
Source: Forward (JTA) — British film director Ken Loach, a fierce advocate of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, said “every penny” earned from the screening in Israel of his latest film will go to Palestinian organizations. In a letter to the editor of the London-based daily newspaper The Guardian, Loach, as well as producer Rebecca O’Brien … Continued
Odeh in his Santa Ana office By: Gabriel San Roman Source: OC Weekly The unsolved murder of Alex Odeh—a Palestinian-American activist killed in an Oct. 11, 1985, pipe bomb attack at his Santa Ana office—is getting renewed attention in an unlikely setting: Phoenix, Arizona. That’s where Robert Manning sits in a federal prison cell decades … Continued
Source: Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – As an American soccer player of Iraqi parents, Justin Meram is distressed by detentions and deportation threats within his Chaldean Christian community, a fallout of the US government’s agreement with Baghdad to remove Iraq from its travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries. “Being a Chaldean American, being an Iraqi … Continued
By: Paula Katinas Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Rev. Khader El-Yateem apparently isn’t taking any chances. A City Council candidate hoping to get his or her name on the ballot for the Sept. 12 primary is required by election law to submit at least 450 signatures from voters in the district who are registered in the … Continued
Source: Time By: Lily Rothman Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by week, as it was reported in the pages of TIME. Catch up on last … Continued
By: The Associated Press Source: ClickOnDetroit KALKASKA, Mich. – A village president in northern Michigan is refusing to apologize for sharing Facebook posts denouncing Islam and calling for the killing of “every last Muslim.” The Record-Eagle of Traverse City reports that Kalkaska Village President Jeff Sieting said Monday that he doesn’t owe anyone an apology over his Facebook posts. Kalkaska … Continued
By: MEGHAN DWYER Source: wgntv.com PALOS HILLS, Ill. — Suburban residents are calling for the resignation of a township trustee after she wrote posts on social media that are being called “anti-Muslim.” Hundreds of people came out to a board meeting Monday night to protest Palos Township trustee Sharon Brannigan. Brannigan has been a township trustee since … Continued
By: John Taggart | Reuters The case of a youth killed more than two decades ago – whose death prompted a tide of anti-terrorism litigation in the US – has returned to court. In 1996, 17-year-old David Boim was standing at a bus stop in the Israeli settlement Beit El, near Ramallah in the occupied … Continued
Jack G. Shaheen in an undated photo. (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) By Adam Bernstein and Abigail Hauslohner July 11 at 3:34 PM Jack G. Shaheen, an Arab American scholar, author and activist who devoted his career to challenging venomous stereotypes of Arabs in film and television — usually depicted, he once said, as “billionaires, bombers and belly dancers” … Continued
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