Politics

SOURCE: WASHINGTON WATCH BY:JAMES J. ZOGBY Last week a group of Likud members and experts presented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to carve up Arab Jerusalem in somewhat the same way that Hebron was dismembered. Some saw news of this effort as a positive sign that the Netanyahu government might be considering … Continued

SOURCE: MOROCCO WORLD NEWS Rabat – Audrey Azoulay, former French Minister of Culture and daughter of Morocco’s royal counselor, André Azoulay, is among the eight candidates in the race to become the new head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The election will take place in several stages starting Monday, October 9. The Executive … Continued

SOURCE: HAARETZ BY BARAK RAVID A group of Arab countries, headed by Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, have backtracked on their intention of presenting resolutions critical of Israel’s policies in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip at the UNESCO executive board session in Paris this week. This would be the first time since … Continued

SOURCE: EGYPT INDEPENDENT A young Muslim-American of Egyptian origin, Nadeem Mazen, a councilor in the US city of Cambridge in Massachusetts, recently launched his electoral campaign to run as a candidate for the upcoming congressional elections. Mazen, 34, arrived in the US at age five and is the son of an Egyptian-born father and Indiana-born … Continued

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY MUSTAFA SALIM AND TAMER EL-GHOBASHI WATCH THE VIDEO HERE DIBIS, Iraq — Iraqi forces have reclaimed the town of Hawijah from the Islamic State, Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday, though fighting continued in pockets of the last significant urban territory controlled by the militant group. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made the … Continued

SOURCE: THE INTERCEPT BY AIDA CHAVEZ AIPAC ACTIVISTS ARE paying a visit to Washington, D.C., in mid-October, threatening to bring renewed focus on legislation a leading civil liberties group warns will criminalize support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee lists support of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act … Continued

SOURCE: HUFFPOST BY DANIEL MARANS Watch the video here  Leading progressive organizations hope to turn the reform of government surveillance programs into a litmus test for 2020 presidential candidates. In a letter to congressional Democrats, 34 groups, led by the digital rights-focused Demand Progress Action, demand new protections for civil liberties in the reauthorization of a … Continued

SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY JAMES J. ZOGBY Last week Israel announced that the heart of Hebron would henceforth be a separate municipality directly governed by Israel’s Civil Administration. There are about 700 extremist Israeli settlers currently living in a few compounds in the center of the city protected by the Israeli military. While this … Continued

SOURCE: CARNEGIE Many Palestinians and outsiders are skeptical of Palestinian reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. This arises from several past failures, starting with the Mecca Agreement in February 2007 through the Beach Refugee Camp Agreement in April 2014. There are also a number of unsettled issues between the two parties, which can be seen as landmines facing Palestinian reconciliation. Among … Continued

Exclusive: This progressive millennial wants to replace a two-term Republican SOURCE: INDEPENDENT BY EMILY SHUGERMAN Fayrouz Saad had just started university when two planes struck the World Trade Centre on 11 September, 2001. The child of immigrants and a practising Muslim, Ms Saad grew up in the heavily Arab-American city of Dearborn, Michigan. Up to that point, she … Continued