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UN experts condemn Israel’s ‘sadistic’ punitive measures against French-Palestinian rights defender Salah Hammouri

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 rayhanania No Comments

UN experts condemn Israel’s ‘sadistic’ punitive measures against French-Palestinian rights defender Salah Hammouri UN independent experts have called on Israel to immediately release Salah Hammouri, an arbitrarily detained French-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer, who has just ended a 19 day hunger strike in objection to the systematic policy of administrative detention. “We are concerned…

Activism, Arab World, Christian & Muslim, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, News, NewsWire, Palestine & Jordan, racism, Spotlight

ADALAH accuses Israel of racial segregation against Palestinians in UN protest

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 rayhanania No Comments

ADALAH accuses Israel of racial segregation against Palestinians in UN protest The High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and Adalah to UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel practices racial segregation against Palestinian citizens of Israel. For the first time, an international Commission of Inquiry (COI) will also examine Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinian citizens…

Arab World, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Israel, News, Palestine & Jordan, racism

ADC Presents: A Discussion on Amnesty International’s Recent Report with the Mossawa Center & Amnesty International

February 12, 2022 rayhanania No Comments

ADC Presents: A Discussion on Amnesty International’s Recent Report with the Mossawa Center & Amnesty International The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) invites you back to our webinar series with a discussion on Amnesty International’s recent report. Register here! The Zoom webinar will be held on Wednesday February 16th, 2022 at 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM…

American Arabs, Arab World, Event, Events, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine & Jordan, racism

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action calls for Day of Action Thursday Oct. 28

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action calls for Day of Action Thursday Oct. 28 Join us today as we #StandWithThe6 Last week, six leading Palestinian human rights organizations, whose missions are to protect and uphold human rights and provide essential services to Palestinian communities, were designated as terrorist organizations by Israel in an attempt to…

American Arabs, Arab World, Israel, News, Palestine & Jordan

Israel’s hypocritical demonization of its critics

October 7, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Israel’s hypocritical demonization of its critics Israeli’s are the first to demand just but the last to dish it out. The hide behind exaggerated demonization claims slamming anyone who criticizes their immoral conduct as being “anti-semitic.” And they frequently take individual instances, some questionable in terms of veracity, and turn them into broader stereotypes as…

Arab News, ArabNewsColumn, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Israel’s Government hypocrisy in full display in its violence in Sheikh Jarrah

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Israel’s Government hypocrisy in full display in its violence in Sheikh Jarrah Arab News columnist Ray Hanania explores the ethical, legal and moral hypocrisies of Israel’s government’s efforts to evict non-Jews from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. In his column, Hanania argues that if Israel’s government asserts that homes and…

ArabNewsColumn

The fate of Lifta portends the future of Ramallah and Bethlehem and more

July 14, 2021August 10, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

The fate of Lifta portends the future of Ramallah and Bethlehem and more The tragic fate of the village of #Lifta, #Palestine. @ArabNews Every Palestinian knows the story of Lifta, a small village on a hillside near the city of Jerusalem. During its war to conquer Palestinian-majority areas of Palestine in 1947 and 1948, Israel…

Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, Israel, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, racism, refugees

Israeli Supreme Court upholds the racist and discriminatory Jewish Nation-State Law

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli Supreme Court upholds the racist and discriminatory Jewish Nation-State Law Adalah: The Law is illegitimate and violates the absolute prohibitions of international law Today, 8 July 2021, the Israeli Supreme Court in a 10 to 1 decision, upheld the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Basic Law, which enshrines Jewish supremacy and racial segregation as foundational principles…

Arab World, Civil Rights, Israel, Legal, Middle East, News, NewsWire, Palestine & Jordan, religion

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is the Neither-Peace-nor-Security As-sumption Dominating Again?

June 7, 2021August 10, 2021 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is the Neither-Peace-nor-Security Assumption Dominating Again? By Abdennour Toumi The reputed Israeli-Palestinian peace process is an effort that has yielded anything but progress. There have been no successes for recent U.S. presidents who have tried to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders together to find a way to break through to peace. In…

Abdennour Toumi, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Politics

Israel excludes Christians, Muslims in new Jewish-only neighborhood building

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 rayhanania 1 Comment

Israel excludes Christians, Muslims in new Jewish-only neighborhood building Adalah: Construction of new neighborhoods exclusively for Israeli military personnel is illegal residential segregation. Israeli military’s ‘Housing Authority’ discriminates against Arab families, establishing dozens of housing developments nationwide at discount prices available only to selected career military personnel; Adalah: Project violates ban on housing and land allocation…

Arab World, Christian & Muslim, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine & Jordan, racism

Rabbis Condemn Recent Violence Surrounding Israeli Settler Attacks, Riots

January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Rabbis Condemn Recent Violence Surrounding Israeli Settler Attacks, Riots NEW YORK — Today, T’ruah, a rabbinic human rights organization that represents over 2,000 rabbis and cantors and their communities, issued the following statement calling for an end to violence sparked by an Israeli youth attack on Palestinians and subsequent death of Israeli Ahuvia Sandak. Rabbi…

Arab World, Israel, Media Bias, Middle East, NewsWire, Palestine & Jordan, Terrorism

Al-Haq Welcomes B’Tselem’s Recognition of Israeli Apartheid

January 21, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Al-Haq Welcomes B’Tselem’s Recognition of Israeli Apartheid Al-Haq welcomes the publication of B’Tselem’s position paper recognising the construction and maintenance of a single apartheid regime over the Palestinian people.[1] B’Tselem’s paper compellingly and starkly illustrates the now clearly fictional distinction between the oppressive treatment of Palestinians not only in the occupied Palestinian territory but also as…

Christian & Muslim, Civil Rights, Israel, NewsWire, Palestine & Jordan

The Abraham Accords undermined much needed peace with Palestinians

January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 Ghassan Rubeiz 1 Comment

The Abraham Accords undermined much needed peace with Palestinians By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz For many decades, I have been advocating for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. (Justice and the Intifada: Palestinians and Israelis Speak about Peace, Friendship Press, 1991; Unified in Hope: Arabs and Jews Talk about Peace, WCC publications, 1987). Regretfully, I have…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Gulf States, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Politics

Gush Shalom condemns Morocco deal with Apartheid Israel

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

Gush Shalom condemns Morocco deal with Apartheid Israel Gush Shalom strongly condemns the agreement with Morocco. Calls agreement “A cynical deal between Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara” The agreement between Israel and Morocco announced today by President Trump at the very last moment of his term, is a cynical…

Arab World, Israel, News, Palestine & Jordan, racism

Bill Maher’s BDS BS and Apartheid Israeli Style

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 Eileen Fleming No Comments

Bill Maher’s recent rant against the BDS movement exposed his ignorance of Palestinian history and legal rights to end the USA sustained military occupation of their homeland; and inspired this revisit of apartheid Israeli style By Eileen Fleming During last Friday’s REAL TIME with Bill Maher the comic opined that the international movement to Boycott, Divest,…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

AHRC Celebrates Nelson Mandela’s International Day

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

AHRC Celebrates Nelson Mandela’s International Day The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) joins the rest of the global community in celebrating Nelson Mandela International Day. The Day falls on July 18 every year in honor of the former South African President who helped end the Apartheid regime in South Africa. The day was officially…

Activism, American Arabs, Civil Rights, Culture, Event, Events, Features, Press Releases

Standing up against racist laws that restrict free speech

November 25, 2018November 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Standing up against racist laws that restrict free speech By Ray Hanania #BDS #BoycottLaws #IsraeliApartheid Letter I wrote to Illinois Representative David Harris of Arlington Heights (Republican) who introduced a bill last year to expand the existing anti-BDS law that prohibits Americans from criticizing a specific foreign country, Israel. I criticize Israel’s government and will…

American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, Israel, mainstream, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Politics, The Arab Street, US Arab Politics

UN criticizes Israel’s “Nation State Law” as “discriminatory”

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

UN criticizes Israel’s “Nation State Law” as “discriminatory” UN Special Rapporteurs give Israel 60 days to respond to ‘deep concerns’ regarding Jewish Nation-State Law. Four Special Rapporteurs express ‘deep concern’ that Nation-State Law is ‘discriminatory in nature and in practice against non-Jewish citizens and other minorities and does not apply the principle of equality between citizens,…

Christian & Muslim, Civil Rights, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine & Jordan, Press Releases, racism