U.S. angers Palestinians, violates international law with reversal on Israeli settlements
November 19th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration changed the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Monday, reversing four decades of American policy and further undermining the effort to gain Palestinian statehood. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is repudiating the 1978 State Department...
FBI releases official statistics on hate crimes
November 17th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigations released its Hate Crime Statistics 2018 report this week. The report is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias motivated incidents throughout the nation. The 2018 data was submitted by 16,039 law enforcement agencies that provided...
On 16th birthday, California student opens fire at his high school, killing two and shooting himself
November 17th, 20190 SANTA CLARITA, CA — A Southern California high school student pulled a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun from his backpack and fired on fellow classmates on Thursday morning, killing two and wounding three others. He saved the last bullet for himself. It was his 16th birthday. The teenaged gunman, whose name was not provided by...
New report shows how tech companies profit from anti-Muslim violence and bigotry
November 9th, 20190 CHICAGO — The Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), in collaboration with Crescendo and the Public Accountability Initiative, released a report this week that looks at the role that Big Tech platforms, Wall Street firms and right-wing media corporations have played in fanning the flames of White supremacy and anti-Muslim...
Haley Stevens should focus on serving her constituents in Michigan, not Israel
November 8th, 20191 This week, four members of the United States House of Representatives sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General expressing their "concern about the continuing, serious violations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 and the resulting threat our ally Israel faces on its northern border." Resolution 1701 led to...
Microsoft should not fund Israeli spying on Palestinians
November 6th, 20190 The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias — traditional Palestinian scarves that grew to symbolize Palestinian resistance — is far from being a fashion statement. Instead, it is a survival technique,...
Arab American mother allegedly evicted from Florida hotel because of her perceived religion: “We don’t want you here”
November 2nd, 20190 WEST PALM BEACH, FLA — A south Florida mother named Rosemarie Mohammed has claimed she was evicted from a hotel here because of her Arab ethnicity and perceived religion, and has filed a lawsuit accusing Hilton Worldwide Holdings over the alleged incident. “We don't want you here,” Mohammed was allegedly told by a Hampton Inn...
Remembering former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a civil rights advocate and friend of the Arab American community
November 2nd, 20190 DETROIT —During his five decades in Congress, former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, who died Sunday at age 90, played a major impact in both local and national politics. In the wake of his passing, those who knew him and/or worked with him spoke out about him and his accomplishments. “John Conyers lived to serve Detroit, his community...
Debbie Dingell introduces foster care legislation in honor of Rehab and Ahmed Amer
October 30th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) introduced the Rehab and Ahmed Amer Foster Care Improvement Act of 2019 on Wednesday, legislation that requires state foster care programs to ensure children are prioritized for placement with their relatives and puts additional requirements in place for a fairer decision-making...
Young Arab American woman found dead in Staten Island park in New York
October 30th, 20190 NEW YORK – The New York Police Department identified an Arab American woman found dead in a Staten Island park last week as 25-year-old Ola Salem. Salem was found by a jogger near the side of the road in a wooden park last Thursday morning. Salem’s body did not show any obvious signs of trauma, though sources told The New York Post...
Former U.S. Congressman John Conyers dies at age 90.
October 27th, 20190 DETROIT - John Conyers, a Democrat who was the longest-serving African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving for more than half a century, died on Sunday at the age of 90. Conyers joined the House in 1965 and stepped down in 2017, after his reputation was sullied by sexual harassment accusations. The...
She deserves our support: Betty McCollum wants the U.S. to stop subsidizing torture of Palestinian children
October 23rd, 20190 In December 2018, a 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Sabah was only 14-years-old when the alleged attack took place. Another alleged...
CURE Physical Therapy hosts free yoga for breast cancer awareness month
October 23rd, 20190 DEARBORN - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the founder of CURE Physical Therapy, Dr. Antima Gupta, will be conducting a Free Yoga Event for Breast Cancer Awareness called Care by CURE on October 26 at 1 p.m., at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. After working at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn for...
Rep. Ilhan Omar files for divorce from her husband, Ahmed Hirsi
October 8th, 20190 MINNEAPOLIS — United States Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has filed for divorce from her husband, citing an “irretrievable breakdown” of her marriage. Omar, who became the first Muslim American woman to serve in the House of Representatives along with U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi...
Trump publicly calls for China to probe Bidens
October 6th, 20190 WASHINGTON (AP) — On Thursday, President Trump publicly encouraged China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, snubbing his nose at an impeachment inquiry into whether a similar, private appeal to another foreign government violated his oath of office. Trump declared at the White House, “China should start an......
CENTCOM relocates operations from Qatar, fearing an Iranian missile attack
October 3rd, 20190 Although Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar still is home to thousands of Americans, the ability to carry out command and control functions from South Carolina means that the chances of a “Pearl Harbor” type of strike by the Iranians on the base is limited but not completely avoidable. It also perceived that it won’t take the U.S. seven...
Travelers rank Detroit Metropolitan as the best mega airport in America
October 3rd, 20190 DETROIT - Airline passengers ranked Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport as the best mega airport in North America, according to a new study from J.D. Power. The Motor City’s airport emerged as the winner among mega airports, scoring 786 out of 1,000 points, followed by Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport/Wold (779)...
Air Canada made a 12-year-old remove her hijab
September 29th, 20190 San Francisco - Fatima Abdelrahman was boarding an Air Canada flight wearing her hijab when an airline agent stopped her. He asked the then-12-year-old to remove her headscarf. She said no. He said she had to. It was Fatima's first time flying without her family. She made sure to stick with her U.S. Squash Junior National...
Bernie Sanders pickets with UAW at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant
September 25th, 20190 HAMTRAMCK - Vermont senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was in Detroit to picket with striking UAW workers at the gigantic General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant on Wednesday. The labor strike is now in its 10th day. UAW members and supporters can be routinely seen picketing outside of the 4......
Dems launch impeachment inquiry against Trump
September 24th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — After several months of ineffectual investigations into President Trump's administration, including a report by special counsel Robert Mueller that seems to have landed nowhere, congressional Democrats are finally launching an impeachment probe against the president. Democrats quickly switched their focus away...
The federal government moves to ban flavored e-cigarettes
September 13th, 20190 WASHINGTON – President Trump announced plans to ban flavored e-cigarettes on Wednesday. Trump appeared with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, First Lady Melania Trump and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Ned Sharpless to speak to reporters in the Oval Office. The announcement came as health authorities and......
Former top U.S. officials: Israel planted mysterious spy devices near the White House
September 13th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to former top U.S. officials, Israel has likely planted surveillance devices that have been located near the White House over the past two years, which were uncovered during the Trump presidency and meant to track him. The revelations were made to Politico, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, and...
Trump’s Middle East envoy, architect of peace plan, set to leave post
September 8th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, an architect of the administration's long-awaited peace plan for the region, is leaving the White House according to a report from The Hill. Greenblatt will depart the administration in the coming weeks and return to his home state of New......
