December 20, 2008
Categories: democracy, equality, israel, occupation, palestine, palestinians . Tags: israel, occupation, palestine . Author: Boulos . Comments: Leave a Comment

Of the 120 Knesset members, 10 belong to Arab factions – Balad, Hadash, and United Arab List-Ta’al. When coalitions are formed, these groups are usually left outside the camp, and outside the political discourse. Prime ministerial candidates from the right loathe these factions, while those from the left fear being overly associated with them.
The [...]
Proving that they are not above race baiting the Republican party and its followers decided to unleash a torrent of hate speech this week. None of it is new, but its packaging makes one thing very clear : Obama is in cahoots with Arabs and terrorists.
1) Atleast three times this week Senator McCain and Governor [...]
As is their wont, hard-line supporters of Israel have been pushing Barack Obama quite hard. He is, to them, an unknown commodity with questionable ties. Progressive Jewish opinion, on the other hand (and Arab Americans, as well), finds Obama appealing both because of his messages of hope and change and, specifically, because of comments he [...]
Most Arab-Americans support Obama
Many feel a kinship with the Democrat, who they say can repair America’s reputation abroad.
By Tamara El-Khoury, Times Staff Writer
Published March 10, 2008
Saleh Mubarak is Syrian-American. He’s 49, a Tampa engineer, a former longtime Republican.
And he supports Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president, following a trend in the country’s Arab-American community.
“The [...]
John McCain’s Arab-American problem
Arab-Americans are concentrated in swing states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. And the early signs are not good for McCain.
By Juan Cole
May. 28, 2008 | Not long ago, the John McCain campaign dropped a prominent Arab-American businessman from its Michigan state finance committee because of allegations that the [...]
Most people who claim to know things about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have never heard of these laws, and why would they? Many “scholars” simply ignore the foundation of Israel as a nation and simply begin to talk about the anti-semitic nature of Arab culture and how Islam is unable to accept the freedoms of the [...]
Day in and day out you will see conservative bloggers, “journalists” and talking heads continually degrade things that their own constitution was founded around. America was created by nationalists, people who desired self determination from a foreign entity. They also wanted a democracy, where their voices would be heard. Many people in the United States [...]
Many people read articles against Zionism and inaccurately consider it against Jewish people. Zionists are an elite group, aligned with one world government agendas, who even treat other non-elite Jewish people as inferior. If your only understand of Zionists comes from mainstream media this sounds off, but that’s because they are a propaganda machine. I [...]