WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has “ignored our people” during the ongoing Gaza crisis and “we’re going to ignore him” in next year’s presidential election, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said. “We told him directly, in our personal capacities, that if you do not call for an immediate […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US military has announced that it conducted airstrikes in Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and associated groups. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on social media platform X that airstrikes had targeted a facility used by the IRGC and associated groups. “We will take all necessa...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Results of a recent poll show that Arab American support for Joe Biden has plunged to an all-time low, with the Democratic Party absorbing the brunt of the blow due to the community’s negative sentiment toward the US president over his support for Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. […]
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – US Muslim groups have expressed outrage over President Joe Biden’s dismissal of the Palestinian death toll in Israel’s relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip. “To hear the president, with all the proof that exists, deny solid numbers of the death toll is dehumanizing to us as Palestinian Americans,” said Ayah [&hell...
Tel Aviv, Israel – AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Friday that Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself as it continues to pummel the Gaza Strip with an air and ground assault. “Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself… to make sure that this October […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – There are voices within Israel critical of the actions taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government in response to the Hamas’ October 7 attack. Daniel Levy, a former senior adviser during ex-Premier Ehud Barak’s government, says it is “important to call out lies … (that) are justifying the mass killing [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s escalating invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip has been nothing short of “horrific,” says a Jewish-American activist who was detained last week following a protest on the Capitol Hill. “It is absolutely unbearable to watch the way our government ha...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Homeland Security Department has responded to an “increase in threats” against Jews, Muslims and Arab-Americans since October 7, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said. “In the days and weeks since the attack, we have responded to an increase in threats against Jewish, Muslim and Arab-American communities an...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Illinois man accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American child, and repeatedly stabbing the boy’s mother, has pleaded not guilty. Joseph Czuba, 71, was the landlord of the house Wadea al-Fayoume and his mother, Hanaan Shahin, were renting when they were attacked. He was taken into custody following th...
Moscow, Russia – AFP Russian police on Monday said they had arrested 60 people suspected of storming an airport in the Muslim-majority Caucasus republic of Dagestan, seeking to attack Jewish passengers coming from Israel. Dozens of protesters, many of them chanting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest), broke through doors and bar...