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March 1, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Netanyahu and eroding Israel’s standing in America
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me,” goes a well-known American saying and is an apt description for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt at selling another war in the Middle East, a push for a military attack on Iran. Netanyahu’s visit and planned speech to a joint session of…
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February 9, 2015 | Daily Sabah
‘President’ Netanyahu addressing ‘America’s Knesset’
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to ‘President’ Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress comes at a critical period as Republicans have taken over both the House of Representatives and the Senate and are determined to reverse almost every law adopted during Barack Obama’s presidency. From immigration and healthcare to financial oversight,…
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February 7, 2015 | Al JazeeraFighting for Palestine
“After 40 years, my time in the US has come to an end.” This was the opening line of Professor Sami Al-Arian’s letter to supporters and the Muslim American community as he was finally deported from the United States on February 5, 2015. Al-Arian’s deportation brings an end to a painful and torturous episode in…
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January 28, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
‘Interfaith’ Under Occupation is Normalization, Not Solidarity!
Recently a firestorm has taken the US based Palestine solidarity movement because of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative(MLI), as a second group of young American Muslim participants finished a two week fully sponsored visit to participate in an ‘interfaith’ program. The controversy is connected to Palestinian’s civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and…
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January 7, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
“We Fight, Therefore We Are:” Zionism’s Epistemology
Ramon’s Grosfoguel, in a seminal article, The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities, provided a conceptualization of multiple genocides/epistemicides, which can and should be extended to deconstruct the Zionist settler colonial project. From its epistemic inception, Zionism’s settler colonialism was directed at the Palestinians and culminating in ethnic cleansing, destruction of villages and towns as…
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December 14, 2014 | Al JazeeraRevisiting the British conquest of Jerusalem
“…The Ottoman Government, in order to safeguard the religious places from ruin and destruction, has withdrawn its forces from the city and has commissioned officials to take care of the religious places like the Holy Sepulcher and the Aqsa Mosque. Hoping that your treatment will also be similar…” (Isa al-Safari, Filstin al-Arabiyah) On December 11,…
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November 2, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The Balfour Declaration: Palestine’s British and Zionist Colonial Legacy
Annually, November 2 is a painful and traumatic date for Palestinians and their allies around the globe. It marks the anniversary of Britain’s shameful issuance of the Balfour Declaration. In releasing the Declaration, Britain provided the 1st “legal” document sanctioning the creation of a newcolonial project centered on Zionist aspirations for Palestine and their dream…
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September 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Why Israel is a strategic liability for the US?
Working in the US to expose Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians we correctly highlight the moral arguments, human rights and international law framing, which are valid ways to address the issues but at the policy makers level the strategy centers on US national interest. I take issue with the existing national interest and how it…
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September 12, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestine: Toward a social justice based interfaith horizon
On April 16, 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King affirmed in a letter from Birmingham Jail in a prophetic voice “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” and “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The letter was a call to action directed at clergy who, at…
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August 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestine, American Muslim leadership & assimilationist strategic math
The recent debate ignited by Professor Tariq Ramadan’s letter announcing his decision not to attend the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) annual conventions raised a number of critical issues, but also highlighted a growing tension that has been previously kept under control up to this point. Immediately after…
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