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Rashida Tlaib Plans to Lead Historic Delegation to Palestine, Supports BDS

By: Mohamed Mohamed/Arab America Contributing Writer Rashida Tlaib, Democrat-elect to the US House of Representative from Michigan’s 13th Congressional district, recently made history when she became the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives. She also made history being the first Muslim woman Representative-Elect along with Ilhan Omar, the Somali-American … Continued

Criticism of Israel: Rand Paul and Marc Lamont Hill Crossing the Red Line in America

By: Kareem Rosshandler/Arab America Contributing Writer Two events this past week shook the impasse on public discussion of Palestine, Rand Paul’s defiant hold up of the Senate ‘United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act’ and Marc Lamont Hill’s bold UN speech for the world to support Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and human rights. Paul … Continued

Senate Passes Bill Aimed to End Unconstitutional Yemen War

By: Ivey Noojin, Arab America Contributing Writer Congress is taking a stand against Saudi Arabia in a direct contradiction to a plethora of President Trump’s statements in regards to the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. In October of this year, many citizens of the United States began to realize the measures that the … Continued

CNN Fired Marc Lamont Hill For Saying Palestinians Deserve Equal Rights

SOURCE: HUFFPOST BY: YOUSEF MUNAYYER Marc Lamont Hill, a professor at Temple University and a fierce advocate for equality, was perhaps the strongest, most articulate and most passionate voice against racism and bigotry among CNN’s regular contributors. Today, CNN fired him because he believes Palestinians, too, fit into a vision where all people deserve equal rights. … Continued

Arab American Civil Rights League Calls for Action Against the Firing of CNN Contributor Marc Lamont Hill for Support of Palestinians

CNN on Thursday fired contributor Marc Lamont Hill for denouncing the oppression of Palestinians and endorse “a single secular democratic state for everyone” over the failed two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.The move was made just 24 hours after he delivered a speech at a meeting of the U.N.’s Committee on the Exercise of the … Continued

Are Arab Americans Responding to the Disaster in Yemen?

By Amy Hensler/Arab America Contributing Writer  This week US Senator Bernie Sanders will go to the floor of the United States Senate to try and stop U.S. support for the war in Yemen. The Yemen crisis has been an international disaster. The conflict has escalated from the civil war that resulted from the Arab Spring … Continued

Amazon Helps Government Tap Alexa’s Accent Recognition

Michael Springmann/Arab America Contributing Writer According to The Intercept, Amazon’s Alexa voice recognition software might be used to track different ethnicities based on their speech.  The “in home” assistant would use information gleaned from “language accent, ethnic origin, emotion, gender, age, and background noise…[Moreover] The algorithm [a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some … Continued

Bahbah: Can the U. S. Elections be Bought?

By: Bishara A. Bahbah/Arab America Featured Columnist I will let you be the judge based on facts and figures. Let us begin with the most recent 2018 US midterm elections to find out how much was raised and spent and who contributed the most funds and through what vehicles. The 2018 US midterm elections set … Continued

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