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Israel prison Gulag denies rights to non-Jewish prisoners

Posted on April 26, 2017September 25, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Israel prison Gulag denies rights to non-Jewish prisoners

Israel prison Gulag denies rights to non-Jewish prisoners Supreme Court, state have previously determined punitive tactic is illegal; Adalah demands Attorney General take immediate action. Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel is urgently fighting an Israel Prison Service (IPS) practice which is preventing Palestinian prisoners who are participating in a…

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Anti-Arab bias in political lawsuit against Arab Bank

Posted on April 13, 2017April 13, 2017 By rayhanania No Comments on Anti-Arab bias in political lawsuit against Arab Bank

Anti-Arab bias in political lawsuit against Arab Bank The U.S. Supreme Court will consider an outrageously illegal lawsuit that blames the victims of Israeli violence for their resistance against oppression. The lawsuit excludes pro-Palestinian and Arab victims of Israeli violence and should be expanded. The lawsuit should also represent defendants who have been victimized by Israeli terrorism…

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Dozens of Israelis, Palestinians protest Jerusalem Marathon

Posted on March 17, 2017 By rayhanania No Comments on Dozens of Israelis, Palestinians protest Jerusalem Marathon

Dozens of Israelis and Palestinians protested in the Jerusalem Marathon This Friday, 17th of March, the Jerusalem Marathon took place, marking 50 years to the “unification” of the city. Palestinian public committees along with Free Jerusalem group organized a protest in front of the marathon. The protesters wished to remind the residents and the participants…

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Saving Arab Christians in Middle East & America

Posted on November 15, 2016June 12, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Saving Arab Christians in Middle East & America
Saving Arab Christians in Middle East & America

Saving Arab Christians in Middle East & America #SaveArabChristians New Facebook Group documents killings of Arabs & Middle East Christians. Please support, share: www.facebook.com/groups/160992707701045 By Ray Hanania I can’t believe that whenever someone brings up the topic of “Saving Arab Christians,” people in the Middle East community get angry and upset. I get angry responses on…

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Cairo Institute condemns crackdown on Palestinian activists

Posted on August 23, 2016September 25, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Cairo Institute condemns crackdown on Palestinian activists

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) stands in full solidarity with its long standing partners and leading human rights organizations and groups working on Palestinians rights, who are currently facing rising attacks, harassment, intimidation and smear campaigns aimed at undermining their human rights work and silencing their voices. The Cairo Institute for Human…

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Tyrant, the most racist program on TV

Posted on August 11, 2016August 15, 2016 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Tyrant, the most racist program on TV

The FX Series Tyrant which features many Arab actors and actresses is the most racist and viciously anti-Arab series on Television. The series, which is in its second season, is the work of an anti-Arab hater and Israeli producer Howard Gordon and writer Gideon Raff. The show was rumored to have been cancelled after last season’s…

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Effective PR would easily flip American public opinion on Palestine

Posted on May 5, 2016September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Effective PR would easily flip American public opinion on Palestine

The PEW Research Center released a new poll that shows that a majority of Americans admit they sympathize with Israel and only a small portion support the Palestinians. While it reflects fundamental American racism and an ignorance about the facts of Middle East justice, that can easily be turned around with a simple but effective PR…

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Rubio’s humiliation offers break for Middle East peace

Posted on May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 By rayhanania No Comments on Rubio’s humiliation offers break for Middle East peace

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s embarrassing defeat as a presidential candidate, and his even more humiliating failure to win his own state, Florida, in the presidential primary, has created a great opportunity for the forces of Middle East goodwill to step up to the plate and elect a progressive who can move Israeli-Palestinian peace forward, Patrick Murphy By Ray Hanania Nothing was…

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Radio podcast: Obama, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump

Posted on January 14, 2016September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Radio podcast: Obama, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump

Ray Hanania joins Bentley “Bawb” Patterson on Patterson’s weekly radio show on Yalaha Voice to discuss reaction to the news that Al Jazeera American (AJAM) will be closed in April, and to the State of the Union speech by President Barack Obama and the Republican reaction by South Carolina Governor Nikki R. Halley Columnist and…

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New Book: Understanding the suicide bomber phenomena

Posted on November 17, 2015November 17, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on New Book: Understanding the suicide bomber phenomena

New Book: “The Making of a Palestinian Suicide Bomber” by Author Mitri I. Musleh analyzes why suicide bombings exist, how to stop them They make the international news all the time, and yet they’re still an enigma to Western culture. The world became more accustomed to suicide bombers after the World Trade Center attacks on…

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Eyewitness to Israeli brutality in Palestine

Posted on November 4, 2015November 4, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Eyewitness to Israeli brutality in Palestine

Israel’s government is engaging in a cover-up to conceal their atrocities, expelling human rights activists and human rights monitors. The public must speak out! By Bettejo Indelicato My worst nightmare for the Palestinians of the West Bank has become their reality. Crazed illegal settlers and zealous Israeli Occupation Soldiers commit unconscionable crimes against women, children,…

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Israeli journalists, IDF twist facts on social media videos

Posted on October 15, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Israeli journalists, IDF twist facts on social media videos

Israel’s government wants the world to believe that knife-wielding Palestinians are responsible for the current violence, not Israel’s official policy of “provocative brutality” including the expansion of illegal settlements, the stripping land from non-Jews, and stepped-up detentions, assaults and killings of non-Jews by the IDF. But using cell phones to capture video, Palestinian citizen journalists are…

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Jerusalem Post columnist twists the facts

Posted on October 14, 2015January 25, 2016 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Jerusalem Post columnist twists the facts

Lahav Harkov, the Knesset reporter for the Jerusalem Post, took to Twitter to publish lies in response to my criticism of her opinion column, published in the New York Post. By Ray Hanania I have been attacked by a lot of fanatics on both sides of the fence. Arab extremists and Israeli extremists, and rightwing…

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Israel and Media to Blame for Increasing Violence

Posted on October 8, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Israel and Media to Blame for Increasing Violence

The biased Israeli and mainstream American news media are focused on the tragic murders of Israelis in the recent escalation of violence in Palestine, and are downplaying or ignoring the killing of Palestinians by Israeli terrorists to create the false perception that the conflict is driven by “anti-Semitism,” “hatred of Jews” and by “Arab extremism.”…

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Not easy doing humor when the world is so violent

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Not easy doing humor when the world is so violent
Not easy doing humor when the world is so violent

The Middle East is erupting into more and more violence, and hatred is increasing as racist candidates like Ben Carson and Mike Huackabee are promoting divisions and bigotry. But sometimes, humor is the only way to stay sane. And maybe it can help others By Ray Hanania I entered comedy back in 2001 right after…

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New Book Release: “An Improbable Friendship”

Posted on September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on New Book Release: “An Improbable Friendship”
New Book Release: “An Improbable Friendship”

“The Secret”: An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their 40-Year Peace Mission By Anthony David When Ruth Dayan phoned me up and promised to share a secret with me, I was teaching at Al Quds University in the occupied West Bank. Why would the wife of Moshe Dayan, the…

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FX Tyrant series based on anti-Arab racism and stereotypes

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on FX Tyrant series based on anti-Arab racism and stereotypes
FX Tyrant series based on anti-Arab racism and stereotypes

The Cable TV series from FX Tyrant is driven by anti-Arab racism and stereotypes. Not surprisingly, the series is produced by an Israeli who has no compunction to portray Arabs in as negative a light as possible to further libel Arab culture and their just claims against Israel. The real story of greed, betrayal, immorality and…

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Israel and its Apartheid-like policies

Posted on April 19, 2015April 19, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Israel and its Apartheid-like policies

Israelis insist that Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. But what kind of Democracy is a country that discriminates against people based on race and religion and continually reinforces that discrimination? More importantly, what kind of people live in an apartheid-like country and pretends that they do not discriminate? By Ray Hanania For years, I always avoided…

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