The co-chair of the task force combating anti-Muslim bias in Harvard has been a supporter of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Ali Asani, a Middle Eastern studies professor, has in the past vehemently opposed US support for Israel’s government, calling it an apartheid regime, as described by organizations like Human Rights Watch. In Februar...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Rafah residents reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire Thursday in Gaza’s far-southern city after Israel said it had seized a strategic corridor on the Palestinian territory’s border with Egypt. The Israeli military launched its incursion into Rafah in early May despite internatio...
Beijing, China – AFP Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for a peace conference on Israel’s war on Gaza as he addressed Arab leaders and diplomats at a forum in Beijing. Addressing the delegations on Thursday morning, Xi said China supported a “broad-based” peace conference to resolve the conflict. “Th...
Beijing, China – AFP Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday urged the international community to ensure Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not displaced from their war-ravaged territory. “I… call on the international community to immediately provide for long-term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and to e...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States is wary of a new UN resolution on Israel’s war on Gaza, its deputy ambassador said Wednesday as a draft seeks an immediate cease-fire. Algeria called an urgent UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday after an Israeli strike killed 45 people at a tent camp in […]
Ex-President Donald Trump says he will quash free-Palestinian protests on university campuses if he is elected in November. He has also vowed to deport foreign student participants of the demonstrations. Speaking at a donor meeting, Trump praised the New York police for violently dispersing a Columbia University protest supporting Gaza. He h...
Former US Ambassador Nikki Haley has created controversy by signing Israeli artillery shells with the message “Finish Them!” During her visit to Israel on Memorial Day, Haley’s gesture of support occurred amid Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed over 36,000 Palestinians. Accompanied by Israeli politician Danny Danon, Haley criticized the B...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has denounced the recent joint Israel-US assault in Gaza’s “safe zone” Rafah, labeling it as genocidal brutality. At least 40 people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a tent housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday. America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group criticized the B...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP Israel’s deadly military offensive in the erstwhile “safe zone” for internally displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah is already taking a dire health toll in southern Gaza. If it continues, “substantial” increases in deaths of the severely injured can be expected, a top ...
Washington, United States – AFP The White House said Tuesday it did not support sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the tribunal’s prosecutor sought an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We don’t believe that sanctions against the ICC is the right approach here,...
