We funded this, and now we will bear the burden of resisting Israel’s violent, apartheid state. Alice Walker, in her poetry book Sent By Earth, reminds us that murder is murder and that it is personal. Regardless of “if it ...
Our individual core beliefs often serve as guiding principles that define our moral compass, transcending religious or cultural affiliations. Regardless of our backgrounds, certain values should be non-negotiable — values that compel us to break the silence and challenge ignorance, ...
As of Nov 10, 2023, over 11,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli government. Israel says that this is in response to the terrorist attack carried out by Hamas on Oct 7, 2023, which was said to have taken ...
The Israel-Palestine conflict — although I try to refrain from calling it a “conflict,” as “genocide” is a far more adequate term — is not a religious issue. If the roles were reversed, and it was an oppressive Muslim nation ...
On the morning of Oct. 7, militants of the terrorist group Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza, ransacking homes in nearby towns and storming the Nova music festival, where over 260 people were slaughtered. As a result of the surprise air, ...
Yassar Dahbour is a Palestinian political activist who was born in a refugee camp in Syria after his family was expelled from Palestine in 1948. Now living in Sacramento, California, he is a founder and board member of the Sacramento ...
Today in the West Bank, about 871,000 Palestinian refugees reside in UN refugee camps. Inside one of these camps, women and their children prepare a dish called Maqluba, meaning “upside-down.” The pot consists of rice, meat and vegetables and is ...
LOS ANGELES — As Saudi Arabia’s dependency on oil has grown over the years, accounting for almost 50 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, the Saudi government has started to look for ways to diversify its revenue. Out of ...
Citizenship is something that many people take for granted, assuming that the rights and sense of belonging afforded by it are permanent and unlikely to change. Though countries can revoke citizenship, it is often a measure of last resort and ...
Astra-Zeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, and now Sputnik V. Finally, one year after the global start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems like there is a light at the end of the tunnel as a result of the marvels of modern medicine. ...