Israel is targeting refugee camps in the northern West Bank in Palestine. Governor of the city of Tulkarem Abdullah Kamil described the Israeli violence as a replay of the Nakba. The Nakba refers to the ethnic cleansing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by Jewish terrorists in 1948 to clear the way for […]
A student has taken legal action against the University of Chicago, claiming he was suspended for his involvement in a free-Palestine protest. Fourth-year student Manuel Rivera filed a lawsuit on Jan. 14, alleging the university violated his First Amendment rights. The lawsuit also alleges that the institution violated Illinois housing laws by...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday thanked President Donald Trump for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Isr...
Arab-American artist Fareed Armaly has rejected Kaethe Kollwitz Award, protesting censorship of opinions supporting Palestinians in Germany. The Academy of Arts said it regretted his decision. Armaly, in a letter, criticised what he called Germany’s “reactionary” cultural policies, accusing institutions of silencing Palestinian rights advocate...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Legal analysts argue that President Donald Trump’s executive order on combating antisemitism is unlawful. Hatem Bazian, a professor at the University of California’s Ethnic Studies Department, and Robert McCaw, national government affairs director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), spoke about the potent...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — Britain will oppose any efforts to move Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip to neighboring Arab countries, the UK government says. “There must be no forced displacement of Palestinians, nor any reduction in the territory of the Gaza Strip,” the UK’s Minister for Development at the Foreign Office, Anneliese Dodds, said...
The U.S. is drafting plans to withdraw all troops from Syria within a maximum of 90 days. Two defense officials confirmed the move, following interest from President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Trump’s new national security adviser Mike Waltz visited U.S. Central Command in Florida. He met military leaders for briefings about the Middle East. The...
Nearly 200 Harvard University students, faculty, and staff have filed discrimination complaints, alleging a hostile environment against Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. The controversy erupted after Harvard Medical School canceled a panel featuring patients from Gaza that was scheduled for January 21. Among the complainants are 32 faculty, 3...
Israel is pushing ahead with plans for what it has falsely called the “voluntary” expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, seizing on President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about the U.S. “taking over” the war-ravaged territory. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to draft a strategy allowi...
Authorities are investigating after a private plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, killing at least four people. The twin-engine Beech King Air 300 went down in Malatimon village, Mindanao Island, on Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, a Muslim-major...
