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National Press Club condemns Iran for journalist detention, but is silent on Israel’s killing of journalists By Ray Hanania In a lucid example of the moral bankruptcy and bias of the mainstream American news media, the National Press Club issued a press release this week which condemned the Government of Iran for its detention of a…
Why American Arabs and Muslims need their own news blog By Ray Hanania The Huffington Post is one of the internet’s top ranked news blogs. And yet when you read through the HuffPo’s postings today, you notice that while the rest of the world is focused on the Israeli siege of Gaza and the massacre…
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Tlaib-Smith: Michigan Democrats gear up for 4th Senate District battle By Ray Hanania (Updated) Michigan is in the homestretch of a tough election battle between an longtime political dynasty and an up-and-coming American Arab legislator. Palestinian American Rashida Tlaib, 37, is in a fight for her political life, although even if she doesn’t win the…
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Media Twists Facts to Make Israel Look Good in Conflict With Palestinians By Ray Hanania If your only source of news on the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the biased, anti-Arab mainstream American news media, I can understand why you so easily believe that Israel is merely defending itself against rocket attacks from the…
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Ziyad Liquid Jameed and Middle East holidays By Ray Hanania Jameed is a critical ingredient to many high quality Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food recipes and it has a fascinating history that is often misunderstood. Literally translated from Arabic to English to mean “hardened,” Jameed is made from the Ewe, the female goat or sheep…
FX TV’s Tyrant Offensive on Many Levels By Ray Hanania Copyright 2014 Ray Hanania and Creators Syndicate Click here to read column in Arabic As an Arab born in America, I’ve come to accept that Americans are a fundamentally racist society that enjoys looking down on others as an artificial means of making it look…
What’s so racist about FX TV’s Tyrant? By Ray Hanania (Here are just my immediate thoughts in a sarcastic Tirade about Tyrant!) What’s racist about FX TV’s series Tyrant? The entire show. Because you know, all us Ay-rabs are brutal dictator murderers and we go around brutally raping women because we were brutalized as sissy…
Obituary: controversial Lebanese scholar Fouad Ajami dead By Ray Hanania Fouad Ajami, who was reviled by many Arabs but loved by the pro-Israel movement for his softened criticism of Israel and harsh assessments of the Arab World died on Sunday of prostate cancer at his home in Main, according to media reports Tuesday. He was 68…
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Obituary: Ayoub Yousef Talhami, 1928-2014 Ayoub Talhami, former Assistant Chief Engineer at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, and a prominent member of the American Palestinian community in Chicago, was born in Shefa ‘Amr, Palestine. He was a volunteer fighter with Palestinian militias during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. He graduated from the elite Arab College in…
Tyrant: hate TV series coming this summer reveals more about Hollywood than Arabs and Muslims By Ali Younes The Arab Daily News has uncovered a brewing conflict and war of words involving the executives at FX channel that produces the upcoming TV series Tyrant and its creator Gideon Raff. Ray Hanania, the Managing Editor of…
Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer By Ray Hanania One of the most vicious and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim programs on television was Homeland. It replaced the equally anti-Arab hateful program 24, which returned to television last week. Both had one thing in common: The fictional heroes in Homeland (on the notorious anti-Arab cable…
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Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination By Ray Hanania Since as long as I have been speaking out for Palestinian rights and against Israeli oppression, I have also been challenging the refusal of the Arab World to address the equally serious issue of extremist Muslim persecution of Christians. HASHTAG ALERT: #FreeMidEastChristians …
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Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again By Ray Hanania When the United States government called on me during my sophomore year in college to fight in Vietnam, I didn’t wait until they drafted me. There was a chance they wouldn’t, but my Draft number was around 65. So I went and enlisted for…
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Lebanese American Heisman Trophy winner Manziel lags 22nd in draft to the Cleveland Browns By Ray Hanania Not everyone knows that NFL Quarterback Johnny Manziel, 22, is of Lebanese American heritage, so that can’t be a reason why he took a 22nd seat draft last week moving from Texas A&M to the Cleveland Browns. The 2012 Heisman…
A 9/11 book the world needs to read, Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars” By Ray Hanania Published in the Saudi Gazette, Sunday May 11, 2014/Distributed by Creators Syndicate Click here to View Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen October 2008, taken by Muhammad ud-Deen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In 39 years of professional journalism, I have never come…
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Who is Amal Alamuddin, reported George Clooney’s new fiancee An International lawyer who believes in one God, Allah, and in Reincarnation By Ali Younes The news that 36 years old Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin is reportedly engaged to American actor and Oscar winner George Clooney, 52, took Hollywood and the Middle East by…
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Travel: The obligatory visit to the Arabs of Dearborn By Ray Hanania I have been traveling to Dearborn, Michigan since I was a young child back in the 1950s. Back then, it was about the only place where you could purchase original ingredients to make Middle Eastern food recipes. So we would often make the…
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Olmos argues “race” is not a label for divisions at diversity conference Hollywood movie star Edward James Olmos pushed an audience of more than 400 educators and diversity professionals to the edge arguing that it is wrong to look at human beings and believe that they are really divided into different races. The Mexican American…
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