May 13, 2017
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(WASHINGTON DC 05/13/2017) – On Monday, Palestinians around the world and their supporters will commemorate yet one more year of occupation and the continued dispossession of indigenous peoples from the land of Palestine.
Today, more than 1,200 Palestinian political prisoners are in the midst of a hunger strike to protest the illegal...
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American Muslims for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace Respond to Islamophobic Personal Attacks
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The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) strongly condemn flyers targeting our organizations and specifically Hatem Bazian and Rebecca Vilkomerson personally. We are particularly concerned that the distribution...
Palestine Advocacy Day reaches new heights; leads to building network of support
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(WASHINGTON DC 05/02/2017) – A new level of commitment, energy and enthusiasm was the end result of three days of training and advocacy on Capitol Hill. At least 65 people attended the American Muslims for Palestine’s third annual Palestine...
First day of Palestine Advocacy Training huge success
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The second day of the American Muslims for Palestine’s third annual Palestine Advocacy and Training began with a session on understanding civic engagement. Because so many within the Muslim American and activist community are reluctant to engage...
BREAKING: FEDS DROP CHARGES AGAINST AMP STAFFERS
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(WASHINGTON DC 04.21.2017) --The federal government has dropped the charges against AMP staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny. Stephen Rickard, Deputy Chief of the misdemeanors section in the U.S. Attorney's office notified the men's...
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Ahlam Jbara; Capitol Hill staffer; Taher Herzallah; Kareem El-Hosseiny
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May 15, 1948, is known worldwide as day the state of Israel was created. But that date is commemorated by the Palestinians as the beginning of al-Nakba, or “the Catastrophe,” the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland...
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Get the basic facts and history behind the Nakba, the beginning of the Zionist plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinnians from Palestine, which is commemorated every year on May 15.
(WASHINGTON DC 04.20.17) -- Friends of Sabeel North America today released a letter signed by 15 Christian and faith organizations to the assistant US attorney, expressing support for Taher Herzallah...
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(WASHINGTON DC, 05/08/2017) – Today marks the 22nd day of a hunger strike waged by 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners, who are protesting Israel’s use of administrative detention, lack of access to medical care, lack of family visits and the use...
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[Editor's note: This article was published on Mondoweiss.]
The complex and often contentious relationship between American Jews and Muslims witnessed two momentous events that produced divergent results and emotions. On the one hand, anti-Semitic attacks on a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, brought about a rapid $120,000 online fundraising drive in the Muslim community and hundreds of volunteers to repair damage to the cemeteries and express solidarity. On a national level, Muslims mobilized to visit local synagogues and demonstrate their solidarity with American Jews in a time of...
