Palestinians love their children and want them to live just like the rest of us. I shouldn’t have to say this, but I feel it’s necessary following a New York Times piece by Jodi Rudoren critiquing the funeral held for members of the Dalou family killed in a single Israeli airstrike on Gaza, four of […]
Author / Rania Khalek
More journalists were killed today by Israeli airstrikes that began pummeling the Gaza Strip last week. According to multiple reports, three journalists lost their lives in separate airstrikes targeting cars carrying members of the press. Ma’an reports: Mahmoud al-Koumi and Husam Salameh, both cameramen for al-Aqsa TV, were killed in an airstrike on a car […]
The United States House and Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of Isreal’s attack on Gaza, which has thus far killed 115 Palestinians and three Israelis. While the unconditional bipartisan support of Israel isn’t unique (The U.S. government has made it painstakingly clear in the past that no amount of dismembered Palestinians will affect their […]
Remember how the media freaked out when Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared his desire to “wipe Israel off the map”? Despite it being an inaccurate translation, the western media never misses an opportunity rehash that remark. Similarly, whenever Hamas makes a vile remark about Israel, mainstream outlets amplify it the world over to make certain […]
In light of the horrific yet familiar images coming out of Gaza, I think we should all take a moment to listen to Lowkey’s “Long Live Palestine Part 2” (feat. Dam, The Narcicyst, Eslam Jawad, Hich-Kas, Reveal, Hasan Salaam, Shadia Mansour). For those unfamiliar with Lowkey, he’s an incredibly talented rapper from the UK, half […]
It’s raining Israeli bombs in Gaza yet again and as the death toll mounts some people are having themselves a laugh at the expense of the dead. I’m talking about #HamasBumperStickers, a twitter hashtag that caught on like wildfire yesterday mostly among people who despise Palestinians (and Arabs in general) and think it’s funny when […]
The Good It was a big night for marijuana legalization advocates as Washington and Colorado became the first political jurisdictions in the world to vote to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol. Both states will now allow the licensed cultivation and distribution of marijuana, a move that, if other states follow suit, would put […]
A man who has yet to identified was shot and critically wounded by Los Angeles police on October 12 after being stopped and questioned on suspicion of gang-related graffiti vandalism with 23-year-old Kennedy Garcia. In a routine news release about the officer-involved shooting, the LAPD claimed that Garcia fled when police were attempting to handcuff […]
Despite Hurricane Sandy dominating headlines and airwaves with around-the-clock coverage, there is still so much that isn’t being reported. Climate Change The biggest elephant in the room is climate change. The cable news media, in keeping with Obama and Romney during the presidential debates, continues to ignore climate change, even when their New York offices […]
Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, John Errol Ferguson, an elderly Florida prisoner with paranoid schizophrenia, will be strapped to a gurney and intravenously injected with a lethal cocktail tonight at 6 pm EST by the state of Florida. Last night the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in a divided ruling, lifted […]
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