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US election boosts Arab, Muslim voter activism

  • Donald Trump was last month elected for a second term as US president, winning not only all of the nation’s seven swing states but also a clear majority of the popular vote. Many Arab American voters are believed to have supported Trump, with the remainder split between Democratic candidate and...
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Outgoing president must use US laws to rein in Israel

  • When an elected American official has to worry about getting reelected, they often restrain themselves and avoid pursuing controversial policies. But when the reelection option is no longer available and they are in what is termed a lame duck period of office, the elected official can do whatev...
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Arab Americans have a second chance to influence Trump

  • After Donald Trump was sworn in as America’s 45th president in 2017, the Arab American community made the mistake of joining the Democrats’ attacks on him, refusing to meet him or engage with him on policies. This was despite the fact that one of Trump’s closest business friends on hi...
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Grassroots roles the only way to shift US Middle East policy

  • History tells us that US presidential election results mean little in terms of how the country deals with two key audiences: the Middle East, including its current and future conflicts, and the role of Arabs in America. No matter the outcome of votes like this week’s, American policy will conti...
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US politicians put Israel ahead of disaster-hit Americans

  • Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid, having received more than $310 billion (adjusted for inflation) since its founding in 1948. That funding has allowed Israel to arm and train its forces to fight wars and impose military rule over the lands it occupies. In fact, Israel “has be...
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Palestinians excluded from US bid to protect human rights activism

  • US Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland and chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has launched a campaign to showcase the human rights challenges facing people around the world. But the campaign intentionally excludes any reference to human rights violations committe...
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Democrats to blame if voters shun Harris over Gaza

  • Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for this year’s US presidential election, was cheered by hundreds of attendees at the annual convention of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, Michigan, last week — a sign that Democrats have a serious problem when it comes defe...
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America’s hypocritical concern for Israeli hostages

  • The Israeli government’s racist policies that discriminate against Christians and Muslims make a mockery of the issue of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. All this week, American politicians have been releasing statements expressing empathy and anger over the reports that six Israeli hostag...
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Pro-Palestinian voices silenced at Democratic convention

  • The Democrats did everything possible to block pro-Palestinian voices from being heard at the party’s convention in Chicago last week. Police confronted and arrested hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters who tried to express their free speech — a right supposedly guaranteed by the US Constituti...
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Harris ignores pro-Palestine voters at her peril

  • Much has been made over the past week about a protest by a handful of pro-Palestine activists during a presidential campaign rally in Detroit for US Vice President Kamala Harris. Although President Joe Biden has withdrawn from the November presidential election and endorsed Harris to tak...
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