From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Gaza genocide transformed U.S. public opinion
Upwards of 400,000 Pro-Palestine protestors take the streets in a national march in Washington DC to show support for Palestinians and call for a ceasefire and end the genocide in Gaza, January 13, 2024. (Photo: Eman Mohammed)Two years since the start of...
Blinken’s Humiliation
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has ended his four-day excursion to the Middle East where he was publicly rebuffed by Israel, schooled by Egypt and Jordan and protested in Turkey. Blinken will arrive back in the United States where hundreds of...
MMWC Muslim Mental Health Conference: Integrating Islam in addiction treatment
Ahmed Hassan, M.D. was one of the presenters at the two day Behavioral & Mental Health Conference focusing on addiction treatment and how conventional mental health services often fail to provide culturally sensitive care. How many Muslims in America...
Muslim Students Facing Harassment Due to Anti-Palestinian Bias in Schools
Muslim students in public schools in the United States often face discrimination because of their faith. A report by CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) found that nearly half of Muslim students, 47.1%, reported being bullied for being Muslim....
Without Hamas, Gaza Would Still Not Be Free
Palestinians inspect the ruins of Aklouk Tower destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Oct. 8. (Naaman Omar, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0)It shocks me that in my threads I keep coming across...
Franklin family loses more than 50 relatives in single Israeli bombing in Gaza
Three Franklin residents from the Sakalla family have always thought of their Aunt Nadiaas their second mom. Rola Sakalla-Saleh last visited with her in Alexandria, Egypt, years ago. Three Franklin families closely follow a chat on social media that...
The ‘Genocide Moment’
Palestinians in the ruins after an Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip on Oct. 8. (Mahmoud Fareed, Palestinian News & Information Agency or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0)Israel’s systematic and wanton...
This is a list of the names of more than 6,000 Palestinians that Israel has killed in Gaza
PALESTINIANS BURY THE ABU DAN FAMILY IN A MASS GRAVE ON DEIR AL-BALAH, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, OCTOBER 23, 2023. (PHOTO: NAAMAN OMAR/APA IMAGES)The document below is an English-language version of the original Arabic list that the Palestinian Ministry of...
What’s wrong with the news about Gaza and why it matters, MMWC guest expert explains
At a talk hosted by the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition, Maha Hilal, Ph.D., discussed similarities between rhetoric about the U.S. War on Terror, the subject of her 2021 book Innocent Until Proven Muslim, and Israel's War on Gaza.“Language is a...
CAIR: Americans Send Almost 225,000 Messages to Congress Urging Ceasefire in Gaza Amidst Israel’s War Crimes
Muslim civil rights group reveals data on targeted congressional offices receiving action alerts messages in support for Ceasefire Now Resolution (WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/25/23) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim...
