Qatari labour reforms: Words but no actions
Words but no actions. That is Amnesty International’s evaluation of promised Qatari labour reforms on the fifth year of the awarding of the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to the Gulf state
Palestinians protest Violence against women
Palestinian women protest violence by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Israeli soldiers have targeted women and children in responding to protests against Israel’s Apartheid occupation of Palestine By Mohammed Asad Dozens of women, in the Gaza Strip on Sunday Nov. 29, 2015 formed a…
Countdown to Deconstruction: American terrorism
Countdown to Deconstruction: a White American terrorists strikes down innocent victims, but the biased mainstream American news media won’t let you see it for what it really is By Dezeray Lyn A devastating terrorist attack has just taken place in America. Many are injured, several are dead. The US fear machine is on full blast,…
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Breeding intolerance: Turkish soccer fans disrespect ISIS victims
Turkish fans twice in two months disrupted moments of silence for victims of Islamic State attacks in Ankara and Paris in a demonstration of the kind of intolerance bred by religiously-cloaked authoritarianism in countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia
Cleveland Browns bench American Arab Johnny Manziel
American Arab quarterback Johnny Manziel benched by the Cleveland Browns over off-field behavior. By Ray Hanania American Arab football star Johnny Manziel was benched Wednesday as the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns after another incident described by team management as “unacceptable” off-field behavior. Manziel, the son of a wealthy Texas wildcatter who immigrated from…
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Magen David Adom criticized for racism against Palestinians
By Mohammed Asad The Magen David Adom, the so-called emergency and ambulance service for the “Democratic” State of Israel, has been proven to be discriminatory and driven by hatred. The MDA has intentionally delayed emergency treatment to Palestinian Christian and Muslim victims and have often allowed the victims to die rather than provide them medical…
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Original Statue of Liberty design was Arab woman
Lots has been written about the French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty, the gift to America from France, but little was noted about the original concept which may have been based on an earlier design the sculptor did of an Arab woman in Egypt By Ray Hanania Americans have short memories, usually driven…
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Professor Bayram Balci Analyzes Turkish elections
Professor Bayram Balci Analyzes Turkish elections Exclusive to The Arab Daily News: Q&A with Bayram Balçi Professor at l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris. By Abdennour Toumi Professor Bayram Balci is a non-resident scholar in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, where his research focuses on Turkey and Turkish foreign policy in Central Asia and the…
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Yale Law students protest restrictions on Syrian refugees
Yale Law Students Urge Democratic Members of Congress to Oppose Harmful and Discriminatory Refugee Legislation The Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS) sent a letter today (Monday Nov. 23, 2015) imploring House Democrats to publicly change their position on HR 4038 and urge Senate Democrats to oppose this legislation with their…
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Syrian refugees: heroism of Rev. Jesse Jackson
What many Americans want to do to Syrian refugees, America did to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution just prior to the start of World War II. One civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson believes that it is “unAmerican” to prevent Syrian refugees from seeking refuge in America By Ray Hanania There is a running…
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Le Bâton de Guerre of President Hollande on Terror
By Abdennour Toumi This law of exception was never repealed in spite of numerous criticisms leveled at its questionable constitutionality and its relevance to personal liberty. A week after the murderous attacks, which resulted in 130 deaths and 352 wounded in Paris and Saint-Denis, President Hollande delivered a speech on November 16th before in joint…
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Gaza children celebrate World Children’s Day
By Mohammed Asad Palestinian children take part in a festival to mark “World Children’s Day” in Gaza City on Nov. 22, 2015.
VanunuLeaks, ISIS and Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
On Thursday a study by ISIS the US based Institute for Science and International Security reported, “Israel developed its first nuclear weapon shortly before the 1967 Six Day War” corroborating an LBJ ‘VanunuLeak’ to this American in 2005. By Eileen Fleming David Albright is a Physicist and President of the non-profit Institute for Science and…
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Israeli officer convicted of brutally beating Palestinian released
No justice in Israel for Christians or Muslims, which is why Israel is increasingly being identified by its own actions as an Apartheid State. Palestinian “suspects” are murdered and brutalized with no justice, while Israeli “suspects” are soft-peddled and whitewashed by Israel’s judicial system to hide the truth about today’s Israeli society. By Ray Hanania…
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Terrorism media coverage in Paris/West vs Beirut/Arabs
Why is there a difference between the coverage by the mainstream Western and American news media of the terrorism in Paris on Friday Nov. 13 compared to the absence of media coverage of the terrorism in Beirut the day before? The reasons involve a twisted form of journalism applied by Western journalists that distinguishes between…
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War on Terror is the dumbest idea ever floated
Mike Ghouse Indeed, war on Terror is the dumbest idea ever floated, there is another way to handle it; the Islamic way If a thief breaks into your home, would you ask him his religion? And if he were to says, he belongs to your faith; would you let him get away? When a terrorist…
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Bernie Sanders offers reasoned approach to Middle East peace
For a long time, I supported the election of Hillary Clinton as President. I supported her against Barack Obama and for a longtime believed we needed to elect her to help restore reason and sanity to dealing with the Middle East. But the Clintons’ views on the Middle East have changed much and I believe…
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British police arrest Libyan accused in officers 1984 killing
Detectives have today, Thursday, 19 November arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in April 1984 and two others on suspicion of money laundering. Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) carried out the arrests shortly after 09:00hrs. A man, who is in his 50s [A], was arrested…
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