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UN experts urge US to grant visas to Palestinian officials, uphold diplomacy for peace

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 Ray Hanania No Comments

UN experts urge US to grant visas to Palestinian officials, uphold diplomacy for peace UN experts* urged the United States on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025 to grant Palestinian leaders visas ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York in September, and lift the discriminatory suspension of processing visitor visas for all Palestinian nationals. “The…

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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025 Ray Hanania No Comments

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by Israel’s killing in Gaza on Sunday of four Al Jazeera staff — correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal — and two freelancers, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammad al-Khaldi. The six journalists were killed and two others were injured by…

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UN experts appalled by relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025 Ray Hanania No Comments

UN experts appalled by relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system The targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system by the Israel Defense Forces amounts to “medicide,” UN experts* said today, accusing Israel of deliberately attacking and starving healthcare workers, paramedics and hospitals to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave. “As human beings and…

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Israeli influenced US Government sanctions Palestinian government

July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 Ray Hanania No Comments

Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization By Ray Hanania The U.S. State Department and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have sanctioned the Palestinian Authority in an effort to undermine its credibility and strengthen Israel’s violent war crime policies. The announcement by Rubio was made Thursday, July 31, 2025…

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CAIR Condemns MIT for banning Class President from Graduation Ceremony over Anti-Genocide speech

June 1, 2025June 1, 2025 Ray Hanania No Comments

CAIR Condemns MIT for banning Class President from Graduation Ceremony over Anti-Genocide speech The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, and its Massachusetts chapter (CAIR-MA) today condemned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for reportedly banning MIT class of 2025 president Megha Vemuri from attending her undergraduate graduation…

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UN Special Committee on Israeli practices in occupied territories warns of a second Nakba

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025 Ray Hanania No Comments

UN Special Committee on Israeli practices in occupied territories warns of a second Nakba “Israel continues to inflict unimaginable suffering on the people living under its occupation, whilst rapidly expanding confiscation of land as part of its wider colonial aspirations. What we are witnessing could very well be another Nakba”, warned a UN Special Committee*…

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Michigan Primaries 2024: Vote Today and be part of the solution:

August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Michigan Primaries 2024: Vote Today and be part of the solution: The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) calls upon all eligible registered voters not to miss voting today, Tuesday primary elections day, Tuesday, August 6, 2024. Voting polls open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m. Election day is the day of action. It…

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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein demands Biden-Harris end Israel’s genocide in Gaza to avert Middle East war

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein demands Biden-Harris end Israel’s genocide in Gaza to avert Middle East war As tensions increase in the Middle East as a result of Israel’s violence and killing of a hostage negotiator, Ismael Haniyeh, Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presumptive presidential nominee, issued the following statement today urging the…

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Arab and Muslim American groups denounce war criminal Netanyahu appearance before Congress

July 24, 2024July 24, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Arab and Muslim American groups denounce war criminal Netanyahu appearance before Congress On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 110 organizations joined together to unequivocally reject the invitation and appearance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress at a time when he is credibly accused of perpetrating war crimes, crimes against…

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Israeli bill to designate UNRWA a terrorist organization is an attack on humanitarian aid

May 30, 2024May 30, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

Israeli bill to designate UNRWA a terrorist organization is an attack on humanitarian aid Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns a bill that passed a preliminary reading yesterday in Israel’s Parliament, known as the Knesset, aimed at designating UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,…

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CAIR Welcomes AME Church Statement Calling for Halt to All U.S. Funding of Israel

February 17, 2024February 17, 2024 Ray Hanania No Comments

CAIR Welcomes AME Church Statement Calling for Halt to All U.S. Funding of Israel The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a statement by the African Methodist Episcopal Church calling on the U.S. government to halt all its funding of the far-right Israeli government’s genocide…

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#AbandonBiden leadership hosts Conference in Chicago Saturday Dec. 30, 2023

December 28, 2023December 28, 2023 Ray Hanania No Comments

#AbandonBiden leadership hosts Conference in Chicago Saturday Dec. 30, 2023 #AbandonBiden campaign hosts conference in Chicago where Arab and Muslim American leaders will discuss their reaction to President Joe Biden’s support of the genocide and warcrimes committed by Israel against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. The conference will be held in Chicago Saturday, Dec….

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Middle East Arab Christians face extinction

May 10, 2016May 10, 2016 rayhanania 1 Comment

Arab Christians and Middle East Christians are being abandoned because of their religious beliefs and are the victims of a new level of genocide, an author and former Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Middle East reporter Danial Williams writes. #SaveArabChristians Arab Christians and Middle East Christians “Christians in the Middle East have been abandoned to…

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Leading Muslims turn backs on Armenian genocide

April 22, 2015April 29, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

While the World is pausing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the massacre of more than one million Armenians by the former Ottoman Empire, many major Muslim American organizations and Arab World leaders have been either silent or have argued that the Armenian genocide is little more than a part of World War I. Armenians, who are Christian,…

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