Muslim Issues

  This is not the State Department I know. That’s why I left my job. By Josh Paul For more than a decade, I worked in the State Department bureau responsible for arms transfers and security assistance to foreign governments. In that time, I was involved in many complex and morally challenging debates over what weapons to send where. What I …

  New punitive measures include daily beatings, daily raids, limiting food and access to medical clinics, cancellation of family visits Families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails attend a demonstration in Ramallah demanding their release and to express their solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, 22 October 2023 (AFP) By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Published date: 24 October 2023 15:20 BST | Last update: 15 …

  Western states have provided cover for Israel’s lawless extremism and possible end goal of massive dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people   A child injured in Israeli attacks is taken to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on 23 October 2023 (Reuters) In the avalanche of emotionally fraught commentary on the 7 October attack by Palestinian fighters against Israel and the subsequent Israeli …

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (L) in Hebron, West Bank on August 21, 2023 [Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images] by Dr Ramzy Baroud  RamzyBaroud “(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated frequently by the Radio Télévision Libre …

  Wafaa and Fadi dreamed of having children for 15 years. When they finally did, an Israeli strike killed the mother and her quadruplets   One-month-old Khaled, Abdul-Khaleq, Mahmoud and Maha were killed in an Israeli attack on their home in Gaza City (X) By Abeer Ayyoub After 15 years of failing to conceive, Wafaa and Fadi al-Baba, a married couple …

  People gather for the Edmonton Emergency Protest and Sit-In for Gaza outside the Alberta Legislature, on October 18, 2023, in Edmonton, Canada. [Stringer – Anadolu Agency] by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh Despite the destruction, pain and great sacrifices made by the Palestinians in Gaza, the military and political victory over the occupation state on 7 October signalled the beginning of …