Trump’s Abraham Accords: Gifting Oppressors, Torturers, and Tyrants

09.20.2020 ________________________________________ This week in Washington the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain signed the Abraham Continue reading →

Palestine: First and Foremost the Land; Above All, Dignity

02.02.2020 ________________________________________ Originally erected by Caliph Umar in the 7th century, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, built on the Temple Mount in Continue reading →

Whose First Amendment? Who’s Harassing Whom?

12.15.2019 ________________________________________ This week, at a White House Chanukah reception, President Donald Trump signed an executive order presumably targeting anti-Semitic Continue reading →

Sitti. Sitto. Grandmothers: Compasses That Point to Justice, Love, Resistance

08.25.2019 ________________________________________ “My grandmother lives on the other side of the earth,” Naomi Shihab Nye writes in Sitti’s Secrets. “She Continue reading →

Al-Nakbah: Humbled By Truth, Here And Everywhere

05.19.2019 ________________________________________ Al-Nakbah – The Catastrophe – is annually commemorated by Palestinians on May 15. It marks the time when, Continue reading →

Say It Ain’t So, Maggie!

01.06.2019 ________________________________________ Protest, if you will, Chinese incarceration of more than 1 million Uighurs in “re-education” camps, the destruction of Continue reading →

Mahmoud Darwish: A Person Can Only Be Born in One Place

09.16.2018 ________________________________________  ”I see no other way than to begin now to speak about sharing the land that has thrust Continue reading →

Amritsar.Sharpeville.Gaza: Will It Never End?

05.20.2018 _________________________________________  Gaza is red with blood, dark in grief, mired in poverty and dysfunction, yet not without dignity. In Continue reading →