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Criticism of Israel is a hate crime but attacking a Christian church is not?

  • Whenever a Synagogue is vandalized in the Arab world, or even in the West, the incident is often characterized as a hate crime and condemned widely. Americans, especially, are exposed to extensive coverage in the mainstream media of such attacks, including reports of the damage to property an...
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Imran Khan’s possible disqualification from Pakistani politics will be the end of his party

  • After the Election Commission of Pakistan’s verdict that Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party had received foreign funding, the current 11-party Shehbaz Sharif government has moved the poll body to seek its arch-rival Khan’s disqualification from politics. The PTI, as expected, ...
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Former CIA station chief urges Biden to block Iran leader from attending UN General Assembly

  • CHICAGO: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi should be prevented from attending next month’s UN General Assembly because Tehran is complicit in the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie in New York on Aug. 12, and continues to foment violence and terrorism across the world. This is the view of&nb...
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Why Arab Americans should cheer Cheney’s election defeat

  • Liz Cheney on Tuesday lost the Wyoming Republican primary in a landslide to Republican rival and trial attorney Harriet Hageman, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump. But Arab Americans need to look past that internal GOP war to see the true threat Cheney posed to Muslims and to Pa...
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Former candidate for Michigan governor defends Biden, says more than criticism is needed to achieve goals

  • CHICAGO: Former candidate for Michigan governor, Abdul El-Sayed, has defended US President Joe Biden, saying that Arab and Muslim Americans can’t simply focus their energies on criticism and must instead engage in positive focused activism, embrace consensus and achieve the policies they want. ...
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Lebanon on precipice of positive change: US task force head

  • CHICAGO: Lebanon will be on the precipice of change if its people end government corruption, and Israelis and Palestinians reach a peace agreement, the head of the American Task Force on Lebanon said Wednesday. Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel, president and CEO of the ATFL, who was recently appo...
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Dubai customs officials uncover 3.7kg drug haul hidden in car parts

  • DUBAI: Inspectors at Dubai International Airport have seized 3.7kg of marijuana that were found hidden inside air filters used for an engine, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported. Dubai Customs officers made the discovery after an x-ray of a passenger’s items revealed an “abnormal density,” th...
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Japan provides $3m aid for makeshift clinics in Yemen 

  • The Japanese government has provided $3m in aid to help set up eight temporary clinics in Yemen. The cash was provided through the United Nations Office for Project services, the Yemen News Agency (SABA) reported.  The clinics will operate in Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Dhale’, Marib, Shabwa, H...
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Truth the first victim of Israeli war on Gaza

  • Over the past six months, Israel has been regularly attacking Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Most of the incidents have been ignored by the Western mainstream news media. Only one of them created a problem for Israel, when its soldiers entered Jenin on May 11 and, during a fi...
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Arab Americans hold ground in Michigan elections

  • CHICAGO: Arab Americans held their own in Michigan’s primary elections on Aug. 2, but it was a Jewish American congressman who was ousted there by a massive $12 million funded campaign by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that targeted several incumbents and candidates. Jew...
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