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Deir Yassin Remembered recites names of murdered Gazans By Ray Hanania More than 2,100 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli military assault was launched on July 8. The vast majority are civilians and were intentionally targeted by Israeli soldiers and missile strikes, a common practice that…
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Palestinian Children return to school as Israeli war crimes continue By Mohammed Asad The start of the school year began normally in the Palestinian territories except on the Gaza Strip where Israeli military war crimes targeting civilians and destroying civilian homes and property continues. Many believe the Israeli Army is intentionally targeting civilians and destroying civilian…
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Obama, Kerry silent on murdered Gaza children, civilians in latest war crime By Mohammed Asad (EDITOR’S NOTE: Warning, some photos may be too gruesome to view, except for President Obama, John Kerry or War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his Israeli rightwing supporters): President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who each held separate press conferences…
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Obama, Kerry mourn murdered journalist James Foley By Ray Hanania President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry issued a blistering attack against the religious terrorist organization ISIS over the brutal beheading of independent journalist James Foley. Foley, 40, was murdered by ISIS, killed by a terrorist who covered his face but spoke with fluent British…
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Palestinian civilians determined to rebuild lives in face of Israeli Gaza war crimes By Mohammed Asad Palestinian civilians returned to their destroyed homes and properties during a brief truce in the Israeli war crimes against civilian areas of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military forces, the “IDF,” have intentionally targeted civilians as witnessed by the devastation of…
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Chicago Sister Cities International Awarded Best Overall Sister City Program Chicago Sister Cities International (CSCI) received Sister Cities International’s (SCI) 2014 Best Overall Program Award for a city with a population more than 500,001 at the SCI 58th Annual Conference in San Jose, California this month. The 2014 SCI Best Overall Program Award recognizes sister…
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UNICEF launches Global Appeal for Displaced Syrian Children through Western Union’s Education for Better Fund As part of today’s World Humanitarian Day focus, a renewed appeal to support education for Syrian children has been issued by Western Union, (NYSE:WU), a leader in global payment services, and A World at School, a global education initiative, to…
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The Mayor of Lincolnwood Illinois, Gerald Turry, defended the decision of the Human Relations Commission to rebuff complaints from a handful of activists demanding that the Palestine Flag be removed from a display of ethnic national flags placed on Lincoln Avenue in the north suburban Chicago community. Lincolnwood has displayed ethnic flags representing the various…
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By Ray Hanania An effort to respect the ethnic diversity of residents who live in the tiny suburb of Lincolnwood, Illinois just north of Chicago exploded into hate rhetoric and name calling when protesters demanded that the suburb remove the Palestine Flag from its display of flags along Lincoln Avenue. The flag display was started…
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University of Illinois fires professor for expressing views critical of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza McCarthyism on the rise in America against American Arabs and Muslims By Ray Hanania Dr. Steven G. Salaita, a well-known and highly regarded writer and author in the American Arab community, was fired from his teaching job at the University…
Amash wins GOP endorsement; Tlaib loses bid; Baydoun makes strong showing By Ray Hanania When it comes to American Arab politics, Metro Detroit and Southeastern Michigan are the center of the world. And this week, the districts there saw several important election contests with some winning, others losing and still others receiving encouragement to continue their…
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In final vote before primary election, Amash votes for America over Israel Congress increases American taxpayer debt to assist Israel By Ray Hanania In his last vote Friday before returning to his 3rd Congressional district to face-off against a wild-rhetoric challenger in the Republican Primary this week, U.S. Rep. Justin Amash cast a vote for…
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B’Tselem: 35 civilians killed when Israel bombs four story building “Most lethal strike on a single residential building in Gaza in many years, and probably ever” Israeli civil rights group says According to information received by B’Tselem, at approximately 7:30 A.M on the morning of 29 July 2014, the Israeli Air Force bombed a four-story…
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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…
Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to broadcast names of dead Palestinian children By Ray Hanania Reminiscent of the vicious racist policies of the Apartheid Government of South Africa, the Israeli Broadcast Authority rejected an advertisement that would have read aloud over Israeli radio the names of Palestinian children murdered by Israeli soldiers in their brutal assault…
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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…
Where is Casey Kasem? Arab American Entertainment icon missing, court orders probe By Ali Younes A California judge ordered on Monday the protective services to find the whereabouts of entertainment icon and radio personality Casey Kasem who was reported missing last week by his three adult children. The judge awarded on Monday his daughter Kerri a…
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