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July 18, 2019 | Daily SabahKushner’s Palestine ‘IPO’ in Bahrain
A Twitter thread by the Economist Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom provided all the needed context on Bahrain’s workshop which was supposedly intended to focus on Palestine but without the Palestinians themselves attending; alas, the Balfour Declaration anew. “There’s a lot of money in this room,” was a comment by U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steven…
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May 28, 2019 |Can Muslims in America Speak?
Attacks on congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as well as Linda Sarsour, Omar Suleiman, Marc Lamont Hill and countless other Muslims in America and across Europe raise philosophical and political questions on whether Muslims can speak and do so where it counts the most. The problem is not in the ability to produce sounds…
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March 11, 2019 |“Private Mossad” on Campus and No One is Alarmed!
“Private Mossad for Hire” was the February 18th, 2019, headline of The New Yorker article, which detailed the operations of a private company set-up by “ex-agents” of the Israeli Mossad and operated freely in the United States. The article was written by Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow who received documents that pointed to the existence…
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January 11, 2019 |Israel’s Alliances with the Fascistic Rightwing!
Netanyahu’s and, by extension, Israeli political elites’ embrace of American, European, and South American rightwing figures is confusing to anyone who is not well-acquitted with Zionist history. The red-carpet reception provided to France’s Marine Le Pen, Italian Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini, who has expressed appreciation for Mussolini, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki, Philippine’s President…
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December 18, 2018 |CNN’s Firing of Marc Lamont Hill and Zionism’s “from the River to the Sea.”
On November 28, 2018, Professor Marc Lamont Hill, a Temple University Professor and a commentator for CNN, delivered a speech that Zionist and Israel’s supporters found objectionable for concluding with the following: “we have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grassroots action, local action, and international…
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November 26, 2018 |The 2018 Midterm Elections and American Muslims’ Political Empowerment
American Muslim women have scored significant victories in the 2018 US Midterm elections with both Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from Minnesota and Michigan winning their seats for the US Congress. Indeed, the dust has begun to settle on the US midterm elections, and American Muslims over-all have registered some significant gains at all levels…
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November 23, 2018 |Israel’s Lobby Inner-Workings in the US Exposed!
“Corporate level, enterprise-grade social media intelligence software” is the sophisticated tools used by Jacob Baime, executive director of Israel on Campus Coalition, to demonize and defame Palestine activists in the US and across college campuses. While the focus on Russia’s interference in US domestic affairs, the newly released documentary shows that Mr. Baime coordinates his…
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October 18, 2018 |Jewish Federations and Diller Foundation Are Funding Islamophobia!
What does Canary Mission, far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer’s and Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative or Stop Islamization of America, US Tea Party, and David Yerushalmi’s American Freedom Law Center all have in common? All are funded by various chapters of the mainstream Jewish Federations across the US and the SF Diller…
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August 24, 2018 |Islamophobia and Structuring Post-Cold War New World Order
The shift towards Islamophobia and using the Muslim subject as the singular global strategic threat emerged towards the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even though a case can be made that the 1979 Iranian Revolution intensified the negative representation of Islam and Muslims in the West, particularly in…
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July 19, 2018 |Özil story: Soccer, double standards and Islamophobia
Mesut Özil, the German National Team player, posted a letter on July 22, 2018 explaining his reasons for retirement from the German team and international competitions. One sentence in Özil’s letter crystalized the predicament that racial, ethnic and religious minority players face across Europe: “I am German when we win but an immigrant when we…
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