Tag: Ray Hanania

Lincolnwood Mayor defends display of Palestine Flag in Chicago suburb

August 15, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

The Mayor of Lincolnwood Illinois, Gerald Turry, defended the decision of the Human Relations Commission to rebuff complaints from a handful of activists demanding that the Palestine Flag be removed from a display of ethnic national flags placed on Lincoln Avenue in the north suburban Chicago community. Lincolnwood has displayed ethnic flags representing the various…

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Gaza War To Restorative Yoga

August 8, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

Gaza War To Restorative Yoga By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News In Thursday’s email, Ray Hanania, the Managing Editor of The Arab Daily News wrote, Yes, the Gaza war was one of the worst I’ve seen in my entire life covering the conflict…I am completely and totally overwhelmed with work and…

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Media Twists Facts to Make Israel Look Good in Conflict With Palestinians

July 10, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Media Twists Facts to Make Israel Look Good in Conflict With Palestinians By Ray Hanania If your only source of news on the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the biased, anti-Arab mainstream American news media, I can understand why you so easily believe that Israel is merely defending itself against rocket attacks from the…

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What’s so racist about FX TV’s Tyrant?

June 25, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

What’s so racist about FX TV’s Tyrant? By Ray Hanania (Here are just my immediate thoughts in a sarcastic Tirade about Tyrant!) What’s racist about FX TV’s series Tyrant? The entire show. Because you know, all us Ay-rabs are brutal dictator murderers and we go around brutally raping women because we were brutalized as sissy…

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Tyrant: hate TV series coming this summer reveals more about Hollywood than Arabs and Muslims

May 31, 2014August 20, 2019 Ali Younes No Comments

Tyrant: hate TV series coming this summer reveals more about Hollywood than Arabs and Muslims By Ali Younes The Arab Daily News has uncovered a brewing conflict and war of words involving the executives at FX channel that produces the upcoming TV series Tyrant and its creator Gideon Raff. Ray Hanania, the Managing Editor of…

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Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer

May 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 7 Comments

Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer By Ray Hanania One of the most vicious and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim programs on television was Homeland. It replaced the equally anti-Arab hateful program 24, which returned to television last week. Both had one thing in common: The fictional heroes in Homeland (on the notorious anti-Arab cable…

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Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again

May 15, 2014October 30, 2024 rayhanania 1 Comment

Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again By Ray Hanania When the United States government called on me during my sophomore year in college to fight in Vietnam, I didn’t wait until they drafted me. There was a chance they wouldn’t, but my Draft number was around 65. So I went and enlisted for…

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Olmos argues “race” is not a label for divisions at diversity conference

April 15, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Olmos argues “race” is not a label for divisions at diversity conference Hollywood movie star Edward James Olmos pushed an audience of more than 400 educators and diversity professionals to the edge arguing that it is wrong to look at human beings and believe that they are really divided into different races. The Mexican American…

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Norman Podhoretz and the face of modernday hate

April 13, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Norman Podhoretz and the face of modernday hate How the mainstream American media coddles hate, racism and bigotry By Ray Hanania If someone wrote that the Jews murdered Christ, or that they were engaged in drinking the blood of Christian children, no respectable news media would publish their vicious hate filled words. But that is…

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Suheir Hammad to perform at 11th Annual Diversity Conference April 10

April 6, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Suheir Hammad to perform at 11th Annual Diversity Conference April 10 Palestinian Poet Suheir Hammad will be among the many speakers and performers at the 11th Annual Images and Perceptions Conference to be held Thursday, April 10 at Byblos Banquet Hall, 7258 Chase Road, Dearborn, Michigan. The conference, organized by Siham Awada Jaafar, will also…

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Contrast between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism

April 1, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 2 Comments

Contrast between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism By Ray Hanania It is amazing to watch the activists on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clearly, the pro-Israel activists have their act together while the pro-Palestinian groups martyr themselves as an excuse for failure. During the past few months, pro-Israel lobbyists and PACs, including the villainous AIPAC,…

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Video: Interview with TV Food host Julie Taboulie

March 31, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Video: Interview with TV Food host Julie Taboulie By Ray Hanania Julie Taboulie joins us for one of our first Video Podcast interviews to discuss her popular and successful TV Food show, “Cooking with Julie Taboulie.” Julie, whose real name is Julie Ann Sageer, is Lebanese American Arab and her show features the recipes and…

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Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue

March 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue By Ray Hanania (Creators Syndicate, March 28, 2014. Click here to read the Arabic version of this column) This week, the mainstream American news media went berserk when it was disclosed that the Washington Bureau chief of the Israeli Jerusalem Post was denied an…

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Aron Kader headlines Comedy show for peace in Los Angeles April 10

March 27, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Aron Kader headlines Comedy show for peace in Los Angeles April 10 By Ray Hanania Prominent Palestinian standup comedian Aron Kader will headline an evening of Middle East comedy on Thursday April 10 at the Levantine Center in Los Angeles. The show will be hosted by Sammy “KO” Obeid and will also feature performances by…

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Podcast Interview: Peter Kirstein discusses Columbia College censorship of Arab professor

March 27, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 2 Comments

Podcast Interview: Peter Kirstein discusses Columbia College censorship of Arab professor By Ray Hanania Peter Kirstein, vice president of the Illinois Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), discusses a recent AAUP report which concluded that Columbia College Professor Iymen Chehade had been discriminated against by the College following an anonymous complaint that…

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Podcast Interview: Iymen Chehade discusses Columbia College discrimination

March 26, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Podcast Interview: Iymen Chehade discusses Columbia College discrimination By Ray Hanania Columbia College Professor Iymen Chehade discusses the censorship of his class by the Chicago Illinois based College administration after an anonymous student filed an official complaint against him accusing him of bias. Although the College failed to do a complete investigation or to identify…

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Bullet hit Orland Mosque dome, Orland Park police confirm

March 26, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Bullet hit Orland Mosque dome, Orland Park police confirm Hunt for suspect(s) continues, police say By Ray Hanania Orland Park Police said they are aggressively investigating an apparent gunshot that penetrated the golden dome of the Prayer Center of Orland Park early Tuesday morning as about 40 members of the Mosque congregation were conducting their…

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Bullets fired at Dome of Orland Park Illinois mosque

March 25, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

Bullets fired at Dome of Orland Park Illinois mosque By Ray Hanania A single gun-shot was fired through the Golden dome of the Prayer Center of Orland Park, a mosque that opened to much community opposition and controversy in the Southwest suburban community in 2004. The Orland Park Illinois Police Department, which has taken strong…

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