HANANIA: Arab Americans have substantial presence in tuesday’s elections, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-31-08
Arab Americans have substantial presence in Tuesday’s elections
By Ray Hanania – Despite the challenges of an American system that discourages their involvement, Arab Americans are involved in the political elections this week on all levels, as candidates, as voters and as controversies. Read more »
October 31, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | Arab American candidates, Barack Obama, elected office, John McCain, politicians, presidential election, Ralph Nader | No Comments Yet
HANANIA: Who is Rashid Khalidi and why is he a factor in the presidential election? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10-30-08
Who is Rashid Khalidi and why is he a factor in the presidential election?
By Ray Hanania – To hear supporters of John McCain explain it, you would think Rashid Khalidi was a gun-toting terrorist bent on the destruction of the United States. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a campaign by the McCain supporters to add Khalidi to a growing list of questionable associations they claim plague Democrat Barack Obama. Read more »
October 30, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | Barack Obama, Chicago, John McCain, Rashid Khalidi | No Comments Yet
HANANIA: Will the Bush Administration expand its wars to help McCain? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-27-08
Cross-border attacks in Syria and Pakistan are not coincidence
By Ray Hanania – The Bush administration will start a war for oil. And one week before a presidential election, with his Republican party’s candidate waning in the polls, the Bush Administration will also start a war for politics. Read more »
October 27, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | Barack Obama, cross border attacks, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, John McCain, Pakistan, President Bush, Sarah Palin, Syria | No Comments Yet
ELAASAR: Why should Arab and Muslim Americans vote for Obama? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-16-08
Why should Arab and Muslim Americans vote for Obama?
By Aladdin Elaasar – Islam has come to the forefront of American presidential elections this year. With allegation that Barak Obama is a Muslim, or an Arab- which he is not- fear has been used by his opponents to tie him to some foreign scary thing. But it is not working. The more serious issues this year for the American voters are of course the economy, the Iraq war, health care, education and other serious nagging issues. Smear campaigns and digging for dirt proved not to work with savvy American voters. Read more »
October 16, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Aladdin Elaasar | Arabs, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, Muslims, presidential election, Sarah Palin | No Comments Yet
ELAASAR: Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part II, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-16-08
Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part II
By Aladdin Elaasar – “The hypocrisy is rank. Bristol, Palin’s daughter “made the decision on her own to keep the baby,” McCain’s aides told the press. That’s not a choice pregnant teens would have under the proposed administration of her mother and McCain. As for her claims to oppose corruption and pork – according to the Alaska press, she supported that costly bridge to “nowhere” for years, before finally canceling it as Governor. And experience? Again, according to Alaskan papers, during Palin’s tenure as Mayor, most of the actual work of running small Wasilla was turned over to an administrator after Palin’s precipitous firings gave rise to a recall campaign. Mayor Palin even tried to fire City librarian after she demurred at a proposal to censor the library’s collection”, Gadette says. Read more »
October 16, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Aladdin Elaasar | Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin | No Comments Yet
ELAASAR: Sarah Palin re-igniting the culture wars, Part I, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-16-08
Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part 1
By Aladdin Elaasar — In his recent column in the Huffington Post, Jay Rosen claimed that republicans will try to spin Palin’s shortcoming into strengths, by revving up the culture wars. “As more emerges about how the McCain camp made the decision, the appointment looks more and reckless, the decision rushed, the vetting inadequate. This leads to advanced jeering from the left, intense criticism in the press, damaging leaks from within the Republican party, fueling calls from within and without for Sarah Palin to remove herself” Rosen said. Read more »
October 16, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Aladdin Elaasar | Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin | No Comments Yet
HANANIA: Racism lingers in presidential election, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-11-08
Racism lingers large in presidential election
By Ray Hanania – When one of his supporters went to the microphone at a Republican presidential rally and called Democrat Barack Obama an “Arab,” John McCain immediately took the microphone away and said “No ma’am.” And then McCain added the line that really hurt more than the woman’s outburst of racist hatred, when he probably unintentionally wanted to remind people that Obama is not an Arab, but he is a “decent family man.” What happened at this event in Philadelphia this week was not an effort to temper racism, but rather a depiction of the two kinds of racism that exist in America today that is coming out in the presidential election campaign and is directed at Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, people who “look” like they are Middle Eastern, and anyone who doesn’t fit into the profile of who is an “accepted” minority. Read more »
October 11, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | anti-Arab racism, Barack Obama, bigotry, John McCain | 2 Comments
HANANIA: Arabs and Muslims have no excuse for America’s pro-Israel stance, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10-03-08
Arabs and Muslims have no excuse for America’s pro-Israeli stance
By Ray Hanania – Both of the presidential candidates and the vice presidential candidates in each of their first round of debates emphasized their commitment to “change.” But when it comes to America’s blind support for Israel and failure to stand up for human rights and justice for Palestinians, there is no change. And it again makes this presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain another difficult and unsatisfying choice for Arab and Muslims Americans. Not all of the blame falls on the shoulders of the candidates or on the American people who dissect to minutia heady issues like the nation’s economy and alleged threats from Iran and North Korea but seem to be missing in action and intelligence when it comes to understanding the fundamentals of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Read more »
October 3, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | Arab Americans, Barack Obama, Israel, Joe Biden, John McCain, lack of leadership, Muslim Americans, Palestine, Palestinians, presidential election, Sarah Palin | 1 Comment
HANANIA: Bailout collapse costs the American people, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 9-29-08
Bailout battle costs the American people real money
By Ray Hanania – Republicans are blaming the Democrats and Democrats are blaming the Republicans for the crash of the stock market in the wake of the failure of the Congress to approve the $700 billion economic bailout. But I have to blame someone else. Read more »
September 29, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | $700 billion bailout, Barack Obama, Congress, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin, stockmarket collapse | No Comments Yet
HANANIA: American extremists use Islamic extremism to fuel anti-Muslim hate, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 9-17-08
American extremists use Islamic extremism to fuel anti-Muslim hate
By Ray Hanania – The makers of a controversial DVD on Islamic extremism contend that they are not anti-Muslim. Yet, the majority of the people they interviewed in their highly publicized, well-funded documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against the West” include a who’s who of the most anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatemongers in American political activism and journalism. Read more »
September 17, 2008 Posted by Ray Hanania | Ray Hanania | american news media, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, Barack Obama, bias, discrimination, hate mongering, John McCain, mainstream media, Obsession | No Comments Yet
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