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Akram Baker remembered, worked at Orient House in Jerusalem with the late Faisal Husseini Obituary, 1966 – 2025 By Hady Amr Akram Ahmad Baker, 58, my longtime friend and colleague, passed away on December 11, following a valiant battle with disease. Akram was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1966 to Palestinian-American parents from Bir Nabalah,…
Israeli Settlement Expansion Continues for Fifth Consecutive Week: Plans to Advance 765 New Housing Units On Wednesday, January 1, 2025, the Higher Planning Council (HPC) will convene to discuss the approval of a construction plan for 765 housing units in the settlement of Beitar Illit. Since December 2024, the HPC has been advancing housing construction…
Israel’s racist government denies water to Christians and Muslims in East Jerusalem Adalah Petitions Israeli Supreme Court Over Severe Water Shortages in Kufr ‘Aqab, a Palestinian Neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem. The petition, filed on behalf of 204 residents, argues that the Israeli authorities’ failure to provide a continuous and adequate water supply undermines the…
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Peace Now: Attempt for the Establishment of a New Settlement in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City There is growing concern over an attempt to seize one of the last undeveloped plots in Jerusalem’s Old City for the establishment of a new settlement. In recent days, representatives of a Jewish-Australian businessman and his partners…
Adalah: Escalating Annexation Measures Led by Netanyahu Government Require Urgent Intervention of International Community and Tribunals In a new position paper, Adalah analyzes a series of recent measures by the current Israeli government which constitute annexation of the West Bank and a clear policy to extend the regime of Jewish supremacy and deepen the apartheid…
Christian group criticizes Israel home demolitions in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) Strongly Opposes the Demolition of the Salhiya Family Home in Sheikh Jarrah On January 19, 2022, in the early hours of the morning, Israeli police forcibly evicted the Salhiya family and demolished their home in the Sheikh Jarrah…
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Reopening US Consulate in East Jerusalem is essential to peace The reopening of the US Consulate in East Jerusalem to address Palestinian Affairs is essential to achieving peace between Israel and Palestine, despite the failures of Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian peace activists. This column was originally published in Arab News on Sept. 22, 2021 By…
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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…
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America’s Arab American Youth: Future Leaders for Justice No doubt that the recent and ongoing Israeli violence against innocent and unarmed Palestinian civilians shocked the conscience of all peace-loving people not only in Dearborn but across the nation and around the world. The Israeli efforts to impose a misleading narrative regarding its occupation and its…
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APN to US Jewish Groups: Tell Netanyahu to Reverse New Settlement Plans Americans for Peace Now (APN) provides an update on the expansion of Israeli settlements and urges the European Union to take action to block settlement expansion. Plus reports from Peace Now on expansion road plans in E1 Americans for Peace Now (APN) is…
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Details of the Deal of the Century for Palestine-Israel peace The following is the White House summary of the Deal of the Century, Israel-Palestine peace plan unveiled by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020: “We are not here to lecture—we are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do,…
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Palestinians have the power to change Israel By Ray Hanania In this week’s column for the Middle East Monitor I write about the power that Palestinian citizens in Israel have to bring change to Israel’ racist, Apartheid government and participate in forcing the so-called “Jewish State” to respect the rights of Christians and Muslims. Israel’s…
Diary of the Tel Arad (Khan al-Ahmar) Palestinians Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazi soldiers until they were discovered towards the end of the war. But Anne Frank’s diary speaks only of the fear, frustrations, and tension of life before they were taken to the concentration camps. That experience of fear is…
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Media ignores Christian, Muslim rights in UNESCO assault The failure of the Arab and Islamic Worlds to engage in professional communications has allowed Israel and the biased mainstream American news media to twist and shout falsely against Christian and Muslim rights in Israel, occupied Palestine and in occupied Jerusalem. The accusations against UNESCO are false….
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UNESCO’s draft resolution titled “Occupied Palestine” sponsored by several Arab countries uses Islamic names and challenges Israel on Jerusalem. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday passed a draft resolution titled “Occupied Palestine” with 24 UNESCO member states voting in favor, 26 abstained, and six countries voted against. The proposal, put…
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To normalize or not to normalize. How much is too much or too little? There is an in between called compromise.It’s clear that the direction most Israelis and Palestinians are headed is away from peace and actions that might help end the conflict. When the brutality of the Israeli occupation increases, the thought of reaching…
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Without condemning Palestinian atrocities against Israelis, the Palestinians lose the moral high ground and weaken their ability to condemn the many atrocities committed by Israelis. Arab fanatics, however, argue that Palestinian atrocities are not atrocities at all, and the only atrocities are committed by Israelis. That false logic undermines the powerful cause of the Palestinian people….
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By Yousef Khatib Camillo Sitte believed that there is an art in the planning of cities; so then that would define the “city” an urban landscape, a defining measure of cultural value. Various historical and contemporary critics of urban landscapes, express that architecture and urbanism have always been products of social, cultural, political, economic and…