Marquette University scholar to talk about changes in Palestinian American marriage
The Islamic Resource Center, 5235 S. 27th St. Greenfield, will host Enaya Othman, Ph.D., Saturday at 7 p.m. for the launch of her new book, Crafting Marriages: Palestinian American Women Transforming Gender Boundaries.“As an immigrant from Al-Bireh,...
Instagram ‘suspends’ US activist Shaun King amid censorship of pro-Palestine accounts
Shaun King rose to prominence as a voice for the Black Lives Matter movement in the mid-2010s [Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty] US activist Shaun King claimed Monday that his account on social media platform Instagram had been suspended...
Rabbi speaks at Marquette University about growing Jewish resistance to Zionism
Photos by Kamal Moon “We are being faced with a moral reckoning that is probably the most important one any of us will face in our lifetimes,” Rabbi Brant Rosen told an audience of students, faculty and community members at Marquette’s Weasler Auditorium...
Christmas: Then and Now
PALESTINIANS EVACUATING AL-BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP IN CENTRAL GAZA FOR DEIR AL-BALAH AS THEY ARE FORCED TO FLEE SOUTH UNDER ISRAELI BOMBARDMENT AND SHELLING, DECEMBER 22, 2023. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY /APA IMAGES) I was born across the street from where Jesus was...
How Gaza’s history and culture are being erased by Israel’s war
Byzantine-era churches destroyed, 7th-century mosques bombed, artists, writers, and musicians killed. Will Gaza's cultural heritage survive the war?In late November, intense Israeli shelling destroyed Gaza City’s Central Archive Building, which contained...
Peace activist bridging the divide in rural Wisconsin
Photo of bridge by J. Eassa Dena Eakles, author, podcaster, peace activist and farmer using her talents to cultivate the reality that we are one race, one planet. The bridge symbolizes the potential to connect the rural/urban sense of the other.Editor's...
The Genocide Convention And The Failed Promise Of Never Again
A Sudanese rebel fighter from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) sombrely watches the abandoned village of Chero Kasi burn less than an hour after Janjaweed militiamen set it ablaze in the violence plagued Darfur region September 7, 2004. United...
Expert: Biden Remark on Israel’s “Indiscriminate Bombing” Could Incriminate Him
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the release of hostages from Gaza, in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 26, 2023. President Joe Biden may have put himself at risk of prosecution for aiding the committing of war crimes, an expert has said, with...
US-Israeli Propaganda Machine is Failing
Photos by Kamal MoonA protester's sign at the Wisconsin All Out For Palestine March in Madison, intends that no one is fooled by the Biden administration's propaganda machine or its agenda.Editor's note: The Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine is...
Are human rights really universal? Palestine and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 years later
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES (CENTER) SPEAKS DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE RAFAH BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE GAZA STRIP, OCTOBER 20, 2023. (PHOTO: © GEHAD HAMDY/DPA VIA ZUMA PRESS/APA IMAGES)The two months since the start...
