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Candidate Jill Stein vows to fight for justice for Israelis and Palestinians

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Candidate Jill Stein vows to fight for justice for Israelis and Palestinians Dr. Jill Stein, the Jewish American candidate for the Green Party running for President in the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election, said she would reject extremism in the Middle East and champion justice for Palestinians and Israelis if elected. Stein told Ray Hanania,…

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Zim San Diego Delays Docking For Seven Days In Attempt To Wait Out Palestinian Activists Calling For BDS

June 10, 2021June 11, 2021 News Editor News Editor No Comments

Zim San Diego Delays Docking For Seven Days In Attempt To Wait Out Palestinian Activists Calling For BDS With spreading news of planned protests against the Israeli shipping company, Zim San Diego remains in Elliott Bay, afraid of the protesters that will greet it upon arrival. (See update and correction below) Falastiniyat and endorsing organizations…

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American Muslims for Palestine organizes boycott of Israeli Dates

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

American Muslims for Palestine organizes boycott of Israeli Dates As the holy month of Ramadan nears, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) relaunched a national boycott of Israeli dates sold in US markets. AMP calls on all Americans and American Muslims to boycott date brands known explicitly to operate in illegal Israeli settlements and to exploit…

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Court tosses racist anti-BDS law in Arkansas

February 13, 2021February 22, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Court tosses racist anti-BDS law in Arkansas CAIR issues statement commending court decision to stand by the U.S. Constitutional Right of Free Speech T’ruah, J Street Celebrate 8th Circuit Decision Striking Down Anti-BDS Law That Violates First Amendment In response to today’s ruling by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals that the Arkansas law prohibiting government…

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Israel continues policy of forcibly transferring Palestinians

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Israel continues policy of forcibly transferring Palestinians On Monday Feb. 1, 2021, another massive demolition at Khirbet Humsah; today, troops began extensive training among homes and fields of Masafer Yatta residents Israel has taken two unusally broad measures this week as part of its ongoing efforts to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities in order to take…

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EU, France, Ireland urge decisive action to block Israeli annexation of West Bank

April 26, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

EU, France, Ireland urge decisive action to block Israeli annexation of West Bank Al-Haq Welcomes EU, Irish and French Positions and Urges Third States to Take Decisive Action to Prevent Further Israeli Annexation On 20 April 2020, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Occupying Forces, Benny Gantz,…

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Lawsuit filed against Trump, Israeli settlements, peace plan and AIPAC

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

Lawsuit filed against Trump, Israeli settlements, peace plan and AIPAC Washington D.C. Attorney Martin McMahon filed a lawsuit against Netanyahu and Trump and 17 other defendants in February 2020 accusing them of denying the civil and human rights of Palestinians in Israel and in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Jerusalem. McMahon held…

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Video: ‘Gaza Fights for Freedom’: An antidote to Israel’s criminal propaganda

November 26, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Video: ‘Gaza Fights for Freedom’: An antidote to Israel’s criminal propaganda A new film by Abby Martin documents a people seeking dignity and basic rights, and ends with an appeal for BDS. Source Palestine Updates This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by…

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Darwish slams Lipinski silence on BDS, praises Congressmen Rush and Garcia

August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Darwish slams Lipinski silence on BDS, praises Congressmen Rush and Garcia Today, Rush Darwish, the first Muslim-American Congressional candidate ever in Illinois to raise over $100,000 within 10 days of opening their campaign fund, praised his neighboring Congressmen Bobby Rush and Chuy Garcia for their opposition to a resolution to oppose the Israel-targeted Boycott, Divestment,…

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Tlaib trades barbs with Democrats over criticism of Israel

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Tlaib trades barbs with Democrats over criticism of Israel While Progressive Democratic Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have been battling with the President Donald Trump and the extremism of several leading Republicans, the duo have also come under attack from prominent Democrats, too, proving that when it comes to Israel’s war crimes and human…

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Response to Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy’s Idiot Wind

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is the Senate majority leader and Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) is the House Republican leader. Their Washington Post Oped, “Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy: The House must stand against the toxic BDS movement” inspired the following TADN post. By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday, the Washington Post published Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy‘s…

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Media bias against Arabs comes out at Saudi press conference

February 14, 2019February 20, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

Media bias against Arabs comes out at Saudi press conference Upfront at the table of mainstream news media bias and hypocrisy at a press briefing held at the Saudi Embassy in Washington D.C. The event only reinforced my belief that the U.S. news media is anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian. By Ray Hanania I had the…

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Arab Radio: Middle East Monitor writer Hanaa Hasan on Syria

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Arab Radio: Middle East Monitor writer Hanaa Hasan on Syria THE ARAB STREET Radio & Podcast broadcast from Chicago through 690 AM WNZK Radio in Detroit Michigan and live online … Friday Jan. 18, 2019 … interview with Hanaa Hasan, a researcher and writer at Middle East Monitor, specializing in the Levant and North Africa….

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Arab, Jewish groups denounce law to stifle American freedoms

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Arab, Jewish groups denounce law to stifle American freedoms Arab and Jewish groups announced their opposition to a law introduced in the U.S. Senate to make it illegal for Americans to criticize Israel by boycotting Israel’s illegal, and racist Jewish settlements. The bill targets the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanction) movement which targets Israel’s Apartheid policies…

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Aljazeera’s Ali Younes joins Ray Hanania on Arab Radio Friday Dec. 14

December 13, 2018December 14, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Aljazeera’s Ali Younes joins Ray Hanania on Arab Radio Friday Dec. 14 Syndicated columnist Ray Hanania hosts a regular morning radio show broadcast from Detroit on the US Arab Radio network hosted by Laila Alhusini. This week’s guest is Aljazeera writer Ali Younes. they’ll discuss Israeli terrorism in the West Bank, the BDS movement, and…

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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…

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Arab Radio: Arabs and Hypocrisy in the U.S. Congress

November 20, 2018November 23, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arab Radio: Arabs and Hypocrisy in the U.S. Congress Al Jazeera journalist and writer Ali Younes will join Arab News columnist Ray Hanania on this week’s edition of The Arab Street Radio, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 live in Greater Detroit on WNZK AM 690 Radio, and live online. Younes and Hanania will analyze the gains…

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Israel hits legal wall in censorship battle

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Israel hits legal wall in censorship battle Israel’s campaign to bully and censor its critics has expanded from imposing censorship of journalists in Israel and harsher brutal censorship on journalists in the occupied Wes Bank and Occupied Jerusalem has expanded further to foreign lands through its sinister AIPAC Lobby. The lobby and its allies have…

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