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May 25, 2016 |Targeting Chinese-Americans is an Old Ploy!
In December 1999, a grand jury charged Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese -American scientist, with espionage and passing secrets to the Chinese government about the U.S. nuclear W88 program. From the charges and the media frenzy generated by it, one would have expected that the government had a mountain of evidence against this very accomplished scientist….
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May 18, 2016 |Could Trump Win the White House?
The Republican Party primaries are slowly winding down with Donald Trump being the clear presumptive nominee. Certainly, the Republican establishment is trying to find a way to thwart the possibility of a Trump nomination, nevertheless all indications point to Donald at the top of the ticket in the general election . Assuming the clear evidence of…
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May 11, 2016 |The Nakba: Narrating the “Non-Existing” Palestinians into History!
I have been engaged in a constant writing project that intends to highlight Palestinian narratives since 1948 up to the present. The dispossession narrative touches every Palestinian family including my own. During the 1948 Nakba and the war period, two family members on my father side were martyred, Jawdat Ali Rida Muhammad Bazian and Imran…
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May 6, 2016 |Islamophobia and Women’s Hijab in Public Space!
Take the case of seven Muslim women in Hijab in Southern California that were escorted out of a restaurant by police officers for supposedly over-staying the 45-minute limit in the eatery. The seven Muslim women are suing Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach because of this action since they felt targeted due to a number of…
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May 1, 2016 |Always a Land with People
While visiting my mother, who was recuperating from a major operation in Jordan this past December, I took the time to go through family photos and documents. Aside form the usual collections of early childhood photos and funny faces at events, my late father’s Palestinian passport from the British mandate period captured my attention. It…
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April 28, 2016 |FDD congressional testimony: McCarthyism, Islamophobia driving foreign policy
At the April 19 hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade as well as the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, the testimony from Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of the Research Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), was a spectacle that qualified as theater of the…
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April 21, 2016 | Daily SabahRestoring Palestine: Six Divergent Visions
Palestinians’ feeling of being foreigners in their own land and unwanted, stateless refugees waiting for country after country to allow them in, grant papers and permit free movement is not something to wish upon anyone. Palestinians are capable and will continue to resist and counter Zionism at every turn no matter the obstacles; yet, the…
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April 12, 2016 |CVE: Civilizational Rehab Programs for Muslims
The end of the Cold War witnessed a shift away from the typical Russian villain and into the Muslim as the threat to Western civilization that must be confronted at all costs. While the Muslim villain has been present in Western imaginary for quite a long time, the contemporary reincarnation of this historically demonized and…
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April 6, 2016 |Israel and BDS: Assassinating an idea?
Israel’s attempt at assassinating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction idea qualified to be included in the theater of the absurd; if it was not a very serious threat by a militaristic state that is trigger happy. At a March 28, 2016, conference held in Jerusalem, current Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz brazenly called for the…
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March 30, 2016 |Islamophobia and the Ballot Box!
American negative attitudes toward Muslims is at an all-time high and the upward trend will continue unabated for the foreseeable future. More alarming is the fact that Islamophobia has met the ballot box, and politicians in the U.S. and Europe have found an easy path to seats of power by creating and riding a Muslim…
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