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Waiting for A Dream in Africa The young leaders in Africa are waiting to see if this dream comes true, the same as the young Arabs, who once were inspired by Obama’s story, rather than Osama’s. By Abdennour Toumi President Macron’s appeasement speech from the podium of Ouagadougou University was highly anticipated, in particular by…
On Wednesday POTUS Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos depicting violence by Muslims tweeted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the Britain First Movement. Britain First is a far-right ultranationalist group that purports to document Muslim activity across Britain and Europe. By Eileen Fleming Britain First formed in 2011 as an offshoot of the far-right, fascist party…
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UN to list businesses operating illegally in Occupied Palestinian lands The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) is preparing to release a list of all of the businesses and corporations that are operating illegally on lands captured by Israel in 1967 in violation of international law. Despite Israel’s clever PR, companies that operate in the…
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USS Liberty survivor of The Six Day War Donald Pageler, Palestinian Christian Authors, and Jewish Israeli BDS Activist exemplify HOPE in action for Thanksgiving 2017. “HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.”-St. Augustine By Eileen Fleming Donald Pageler survived Israel’s…
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Damnation is defined as the act of sending someone to hell or the state of being in hell. By the 14th century, the word ‘damnation’ was understood as being “condemned” as in a court of law. “Vanunu is a living death, a man who cannot leave the country who cannot speak to foreigners”-Avigdor Feldman, Israeli Human…
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Empowering women to solve refugee crisis focus of speech Nezha Alaoui Was a Featured Speaker at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development’s 12th Annual Conference, ‘Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future’. President and Founder of Mayshad Foundation Discussed Empowering Women and Importance of Entrepreneurship to Help Solve Refugee Crisis at Invite-Only Event in Doha…
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Let investigation run its course, leave Islam and Banlieue out Tariq Ramada might be seen as a voice for the voiceless among the Muslim and Arab youth in the banlieues, but it doesn’t make him their hero. By Abdennour Toumi Sexual harassment and rape accusations aimed at Harvey Weinstein look like a Hitchcock film noir,…
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Lebanon turmoil stoked by pro-Iranian extremists The murder of Rafic Hariri weighs heavy over freedom in Lebanon, 12 years later. And the same forces of violence and extremism are seeking to enforce more change through terrorism. Hariri’s son Saad faces threats of violence from Syria, Iran and Hezbollah extremists By Ray Hanania If people want…
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Adam Levinson releases new book The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East By Adam Valen Levinson In THE ABU DHABI BAR MITZVAH: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East [W. W. Norton & Company; November 14, 2017; $25.95 hardcover], Valen Levinson, armed only with college…
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Israel blocks Christians from visiting grave sites Israel blocks Palestinian grandmother from visiting father’s grave in Christian cemetery. Israeli army expelled residents, demolished Galilee village in 1948; Adalah demands all displaced residents of Ma’alul be allowed to visit family graves, now surrounded by Israeli military base. For years, Israel has been preventing Salwa Salem-Copty, a Christian…
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Before departing Jerusalem in 2005, This American concluded hours of interviews with Vanunu by telling him: “I will tell as in WRITE your story UNTIL Israel frees Vanunu, because it’s a mission from God for me.” By Eileen Fleming Last Wednesday Israel’s nuclear whistle blower TWEETED regarding the “irreversible”: Nov’ 6 2017.in the israel supreme…
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B’Tselem features photo exhibit of Palestinians born in 1967 “50 Years”: Fifty portraits of Palestinians born in 1967 in B’Tselem photography exhibition Jaffa Art Salon, Jaffa port, November 17 – December 7 | Opening: Friday, November 17, 12:00 noon Gallery talk: Friday, November 24, 12:00 noon The exhibition “Fifty Years” is the result of a project in which B’Tselem…
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The restrictions preventing Israel’s infamous nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu from leaving the state expire this November. Vanunu’s Norwegian wife, Professor Kristin Joachimsen applied for his asylum in 2015 after their wedding in Jerusalem. Asylum applications in Norway average four months to be approved. Norway finally approved the Vanunu family reunification application in September 2017, after the…
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Reza Aslan publishes new book on God On Nov. 7, my newest book will be released, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you all. God: A Human History narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions — often…
Kurdish journalist killed, others attacked amid post referendum tensions New York, October 30, 2017– CPJ today condemned attacks against the Kurdish media in Iraq and called on all parties to refrain from targeting the press as political and military tensions escalate over a Kurdish independence bid. In recent days, attackers stabbed to death a journalist,…
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“Hurricane Israel” causes more damage than “Hurricane Harvey” Growing extremism in the BDS movement is weakening the Palestinian fight for justice. BDS can be so much more effective and powerful if it focused less on hating Israel and boycotting reality and instead focusing more on its core strength, exposing Israel’s government civil rights violations and…
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Algerian Berber Separatist Movement: No, I Can’t Get No Satisfaction In Algeria other groups that compose the Berber community and identity, nevertheless the majority seem happy with a federal system. By Abdennour Toumi Ethnic groups are relocating from federal systems and vehemently manifesting their autonomy further. Some are proclaiming independence using the ethnic factor as…
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U.S. military officials sought permission to send an armed drone near a patrol of Green Berets before a deadly ambush Oct. 4 in Niger, but that request was blocked. On 6 June 1967, the Joint Chiefs sent Admiral “Slew” McCain, father of the senator from Arizona, an urgent message instructing him to move the USS…
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