Category: Human Rights

ADC issues condemnation: Impending massacres by Israel must be stopped

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

ADC issues condemnation: Impending Massacres by Israel must be stopped The Israeli regime is outdoing themselves in the genocide of Palestinians. Over the past few days hospitals across Gaza have been forced to evacuate. Patients inside the hospitals, including babies in intensive care incubators, face death as they are forced to move across an obliterated…

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Abandon Harris Endorses Green Party’s Stein for President

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

Abandon Harris Endorses Green Party’s Stein for President The Abandon Harris campaign, which is “dedicated to ensuring that the American people, especially the Muslim-American community, recognize the responsibility we share in standing up against oppression and using all our power to stop genocide wherever it may arise,” announced today it is endorsing the Green Party’s…

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UN Officials call for end of violence

October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

UN Officials call for end of violence 7 October: UN experts call for end of violence and accountability after year of human loss and suffering and blatant disregard for international law Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence…

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Palestinians face darkest period in history, Prime Minister tells UN assembly

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

Palestinians face darkest period in history, Prime Minister tells UN assembly By Ray Hanania Palestine National Authority (PNA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa warned members of the United Nations Monday that his people face one of the worst assaults of violence in its history. An economist by profession who was appointed prime minister in March of…

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Detroit News and National Review condemned for publishing racist cartoon

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 Ray Hanania 1 Comment

Detroit News and National Review condemned for publishing racist cartoon The Detroit News and National Review published a repugnant, morally reprehensible, racist cartoon depicting U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as a victim of Israel’s terrorist attack on Lebanese pagers on Sept. 19, 2024. The cartoon implies that Rep. Tlaib, a sitting Member of Congress and…

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Speakers, panels on Gaza and politics showcase ADC “ArabCon” Convention in Dearborn Sept. 12 – 15

September 1, 2024September 1, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Speakers, panels on Gaza and politics showcase ADC “ArabCon” Convention in Dearborn Sept. 12 – 15 ADC is proud to announce that The Honorable Nina Turner will be joining us at ArabCon in Dearborn, MI. Ms. Turner will be delivering Special Closing Plenary Keynote Remarks on the evening of Friday September 13. This dynamic, multi-day (September…

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MSF opens field hospital in Deir al-Balah as frontline inches closer to Al-Aqsa Hospital as Gaza Holocaust worsens

August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

MSF opens field hospital in Deir al-Balah as frontline inches closer to Al-Aqsa Hospital as Gaza Holocaust worsens Field hospitals cannot replace the health care system that Israel has dismantled in Gaza. Following an evacuation order issued by Israeli forces and a recent explosion near the MSF-supported Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza…

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Arab and Muslims to join conference countering Democratic Convention “silence” on Gaza genocide

August 16, 2024August 16, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Arab and Muslims to join conference countering Democratic Convention “silence” on Gaza genocide By Ray Hanania Chicago, IL — As thousands of delegates gather in Chicago next week for the Democratic National Convention to officially confirm a successor to President Joe Biden, Arab and Muslim community leaders will join African American and progressive activists in…

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Arab Americans to answer DNC Convention silence on Palestinians at special conference

August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Arab Americans to answer DNC Convention silence on Palestinians at special conference Experts offer realistic path forward for saving lives during conference to be held in parallel conjunction to the Democratic National Convention at the headquarters of Operation PUSH for Excellence on Chicago’s SouthSide with Arab and Muslim American and African American speakers, including AAI…

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Expert denounces killing of two more journalists in Gaza and demands full accountability

August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Expert denounces killing of two more journalists in Gaza and demands full accountability An independent human rights expert today condemned the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami Al-Rifi in Gaza on 1 August 2024. “I strongly denounce the deliberate targeting by Israel of two journalists in Gaza, which adds to an…

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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein demands Biden-Harris end Israel’s genocide in Gaza to avert Middle East war

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein demands Biden-Harris end Israel’s genocide in Gaza to avert Middle East war As tensions increase in the Middle East as a result of Israel’s violence and killing of a hostage negotiator, Ismael Haniyeh, Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presumptive presidential nominee, issued the following statement today urging the…

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Arab and Muslim American groups denounce war criminal Netanyahu appearance before Congress

July 24, 2024July 24, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Arab and Muslim American groups denounce war criminal Netanyahu appearance before Congress On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 110 organizations joined together to unequivocally reject the invitation and appearance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress at a time when he is credibly accused of perpetrating war crimes, crimes against…

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Abandon Biden Campaign Condemns Biden’s Megalomania and Media Complicity (July 12, 2024)

July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Abandon Biden Campaign Condemns Biden’s Megalomania and Media Complicity (July 12, 2024) The Abandon Biden campaign strongly condemns President Joe Biden’s recent press conference, which highlighted not only his unwillingness to do what’s right for this country but also the media’s complicity in erasing the genocide in Gaza. During the press conference, not one reporter…

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CAIR Calls on President Biden to ‘Stop Enabling’ Israeli Massacres After Mass Slaughter in Gaza ‘Safe Zone’

July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

CAIR Calls on President Biden to ‘Stop Enabling’ Israeli Massacres After Mass Slaughter in Gaza ‘Safe Zone’ Muslim civil rights group also condemns Biden administration decision not to sanction Israeli unit that committed gross human rights abuses The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on…

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New York blocks Jill Stein’s ballot access in presidential bid

May 30, 2024May 30, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

New York blocks Jill Stein’s ballot access in presidential bid Despite collecting 10 times more signatures than all other grassroots contenders, presidential candidate Jill Stein, who has strong support among Arab and Muslim Americans, has fallen shy of New York state’s “oppressive” ballot access requirement preventing her inclusion on the presidential election ballot. Stein has…

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CPJ calls for investigation into Israeli shooting at 2 Al-Araby TV journalists in West Bank

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

CPJ calls for investigation into Israeli shooting at 2 Al-Araby TV journalists in West Bank Israeli forces fired at camera operator Rabih Al-Monayar (left) and reporter Ameed Shehade while they were reporting on an Israeli raid for Al-Araby TV in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on May 4, 2024. (Screenshot: Al-Araby TV/YouTube) The Committee…

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Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Rafah threat is inhumane, says UN Human Rights Chief

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Rafah threat is inhumane, says UN Human Rights Chief UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday, May 6, 2024, warned that civilian deaths, suffering and destruction were set to increase beyond already unbearable levels followingIsrael’s orders to Palestinians to evacuate parts of Rafah ahead of an anticipated new offensive….

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Testimonies from the Occupied Palestinian Territory show new depths of Israel’s atrocities: UN expert

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Testimonies from the Occupied Palestinian Territory show new depths of Israel’s atrocities: UN expert The Occupied Palestinian Territory is enveloped in a spiral of unstoppable violence, with stories Palestinians and other witnesses relay adding new depths to atrocities the world has witnessed since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza over six months ago, the…

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