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Assalamu Alaikum.   A historic moment in the lives of Muslim Americans has arrived.  Young Muslims, with their Jewish and other allies, are rising up in an unprecedented way across American campuses. They are striving for freedom and justice for Palestine. We must thank Allah and devote resources to support them.  We must ask ourselves: How can we translate this unprecedented activism into sustained energy toward freedom and justice here and abroad? We urge parents to stand in complete support of your children who may be participating in this movement. There is a reason Allah chose them to be in college in America at this moment in time. Justice is a prime value in Islam, and it should constitute a priority for all Muslims, our Masjids, and our institutions. (Quran 57:25) Talking Points: The struggle for freedom and justice is an honorable struggle. We are proud to be a part of it. The occupation of Palestine is the main problem. Freedom is the only solution. The movement is focused on
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What we are seeing in Gaza is a ‘repeat of Auschwitz,’ says genocide expert

  What is happening in Gaza is a “repeat of Auschwitz” and a “collective white imperialist man’s genocide,” according to a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar. Maung Zarni, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his lifelong pro-democracy work and research on genocides, believes it is clear that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The activist and scholar from Myanmar, who has studied genocides and Nazi concentration camps extensively, told Anadolu he has “paid close attention to what has been done by Israel, not just since Oct. 7 … (but) for decades.” Genocide is simply the “destruction of a population or populations under occupation,” he explained in an interview with Anadolu. “Palestinians have lived under Israeli occupation for over 50 years,” said Zarni, who has been nominated for a Nobel by 1976 winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire. “Not just in Gaza, but in all occupied territories ... There are 3 million Palestinians in West Bank also under occupation,
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House Speaker Johnson drowned out by booing crowds at Columbia University speech on Gaza protests

  House Speaker Mike Johnson was drowned out by booing crowds during a speech at Columbia University where he condemned the ongoing student protests against the war in Gaza. Columbia’s campus has been enveloped in student protests over the war that have garnered national attention amid reports of antisemitic speech targeting Jewish students. Johnson called on the university’s president, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, to resign if she could not restore order to the campus and said he would urge President Joe Biden to take executive action against the protesters. House Speaker  Mike Johnson , R-La., struggled to get a word in edgewise Wednesday, battling a chorus of booing crowds during a speech at  Columbia University  where he condemned the ongoing student protests against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. “Enjoy your free speech,”  Johnson  said tersely, pausing his prepared remarks to wait for the jeering to die down. Columbia’s campus has been frozen by controversy since student protesters se
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United States Hypocrisy – Again BY ROBERT FANTINA

  The hypocrisy of the United States government knows no limits. On April 18, a proposal was submitted to the United Nations Security Council to admit Palestine as a full member, thus effectively recognizing the state of Palestine.  Of the fifteen members of the Security Council, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the United States, using its veto power, opposed it . This,  after frantic lobbying  by the U.S. of the other nations on the Security Council to convince at least one of them to vote with the U.S., so the U.S. would not have to stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel. “’It remains the US view that the most expeditious path toward statehood for the Palestinian people is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with the support of the United States and other partners,’ Vedant Patel, the State Department spokesman , told reporters  earlier in the day.” This writer is almost tired of pointing out the obvious: ne
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine BY VIJAY PRASHAD

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  Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a  story  about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the Israeli military. Half of the 35,000 Palestinians killed by Israel were children, their bodies littering the overwhelmed morgues and mosques of Gaza. The former United Nations assistant secretary-general for human rights Andrew Gilmour  told  BBC Newsnight that the Palestinians are experiencing “collective punishment” and that what we are seeing in Gaza is “probably the highest kill rate of any military, killing anybody, since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.” Meanwhile, in the West Bank section of Palestine, Human Rights Watch  shows  that the Israeli military has participated in the displacement of Palestinians from 20 communities and has uprooted at least seven communities since October 2023. These are established facts. Yet, these facts—according to a
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