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Go topSOURCE: INDEPENDENT BY JEFFREY HELLER ‘The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are now Interpol member countries’ Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organisation’s general assembly in Beijing, Interpol said. “The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are … Continued
SOURCE: HAARETZ BY AMIR TIBON In an interview with left-wing website The Intercept, the former presidential candidate said that the U.S. is complicit in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview published Friday that the United States should “play a much more evenhanded role” in … Continued
Photo: CNN Today, the Arab American Institute joined 17 rights organizations to ask Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to stand for the integrity of the Court as a neutral and nonpartisan arbiter. At issue is an upcoming appearance by Justice Neil Gorsuch at the Trump Hotel to an organization, The Fund for American Studies … Continued
By: Michaela Schrum/ Contributing Writer The Syrian refugee crisis has been a topic of interest ever since the initial refugee camps in Turkey were set up in 2011. But international coverage picked up significantly in 2013 with the geographic gains of ISIS in the region, as well as military raids conducted by the Assad regime. … Continued
M. Cherif Bassiouni, an international lawyer and investigator of human rights abuses, torture and war crimes, with then-President Barack Obama. | Provided photo Maureen O’Donnell @suntimesobits | email M. Cherif Bassiouni was a champion of human rights who fought torture, war crimes and genocide around the globe. A longtime DePaul University law professor, Mr. Bassiouni died Monday … Continued
Museum of the Palestinian People is launching the international opening of Bethlehem Beyond the Wall, a new traveling exhibition that invites viewers to see a familiar place from a new point of view. Everyone recognizes Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus, few know that the city has a rich modern culture. Throughout history, Bethlehem has been a … Continued
SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY JAMES J. ZOGBY For half of the past two decades Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has served as Prime Minister of Israel. Whatever his ultimate fate (given the ongoing criminal investigations he is currently facing), it is clear that he has had a profound impact on Israel, the Palestinians, and the entire … Continued
By Colby Cyrus/Contributing Writer The world has moved to a point of constant polarization. In the United States, government action is often at a standstill due to disparities between parties. Abroad, the Gulf Cooperation Council has all but abandoned one of their members. Disagreement, quarrelling and constant finger-pointing seem to dominate the focus of public … Continued
By Dr. Swee Chai Ang/Contributing Writer This September will be the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Sabra-Shatila Massacre in West Beirut. Three thousand unarmed refugees were killed from 15-18 September 1982. I was then a young orthopedic trainee who had resigned from St Thomas Hospital to join the Christian Aid Lebanon medical team to help those … Continued
By Michaela Schrum/Contributing Writer Imagine that you walk to school only to find that there is no school building anymore. This is a situation that many American children would never imagine, but in the West Bank, it is a reminder of a hostile and violent occupation. This is exactly what happened in Jubbet adh-Dibh, a … Continued
Responding to reports circulating in Israeli media today suggesting that the Israeli Finance Ministry is planning to take action against the organization and its donors under Israel’s controversial 2011 anti-boycott law, over its campaign calling on governments to ban imports of Israeli settlement products, Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at … Continued
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned President Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as “pandering to the demands of anti-immigrant extremists.” DACA is the Obama-era federal administrative relief from deportation policy that protects the rights of some 800,000 undocumented young … Continued
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