(VOA) In a historic shift, Muslim and Arab Americans broke with two decades of Democratic loyalty, splitting most of their votes between President-elect Donald Trump and third-party candidates in Tuesday’s presidential election, according to preliminary findings of two prominent advocacy groups. The […]
(Detroit News) Republican Donald Trump won the presidential vote in the cities of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights in Tuesday’s election on his way to winning Michigan after the former president courted voters in Metro Detroit’s traditionally Democratic Arab American and Muslim communities. […]
(Breitbart) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a radical Islamic organization, complained Tuesday about an Israeli flag that was observed hanging inside a church that has been serving as a polling place in Maryland. CAIR, whose director, Nihad Awad, celebrated the October […]
(AFP) Haunted by the daily violence ravaging the Middle East, Soujoud Hamade, a registered Democrat, felt compelled to back Green Party candidate Jill Stein in the US presidential election. “It is very emotional,” the 32-year-old real estate lawyer told AFP after casting […]
(NY Post) She jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. Vice President Kamala Harris is getting roasted for refusing to talk about the Mideast war with a Muslim influencer — and instead spending her time trying to convince him […]
(Politico) Donald Trump made an appeal to Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan on Friday, leveraging the ongoing war in the Middle East and his increasingly inflammatory rhetoric against Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney in an attempt to garner support from the […]
(Detroit Free Press) Donald Trump met with Arab American supporters Friday afternoon at a halal cafe in Dearborn, vowing to bring peace to the Middle East if he’s elected, and repeatedly criticizing Liz Cheney. “You’re going to have peace in the Middle […]
(Middle East Eye) A large group of Muslim Americans has split its vote evenly between Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the final national poll on Muslim Americans released before the upcoming US presidential election on […]
(AP) With the death and destruction in Gaza on her mind, Soraya Burhani agonized over how to cast her vote for president. “For us, Muslims, I see that there’s no good choice,” she said. With the U.S. handling of the Israel-Hamas war […]
(Fox) The suspect charged with shooting a Jewish man multiple times on his way to a Chicago synagogue last week is a Mauritanian illegal immigrant who was released into the U.S. last year, Fox News has confirmed. Four law enforcement sources said […]
(AP) Bowls of labneh and platters of za’atar bread covered the tables in a Lebanese restaurant near Detroit, yet no one seemed to have much of an appetite. On one side were Kamala Harris’ top emissaries to the Arab American community. On […]
(Hill) Former President Trump lashed out at prominent critic former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), calling her a “Muslim-hating warmonger” during a campaign event in Michigan on Saturday. “Kamala is campaigning with Muslim-hating warmonger, Liz Cheney, who wants to invade practically every Muslim […]
(CNN) Former President Donald Trump on Saturday invited several Muslim leaders onstage with him at a campaign rally in Michigan as he courts Arab American and Muslim voters disillusioned or angry over US policy on Israel and Gaza in the critical battleground […]
(Politico) Kamala Harris’ campaign is facing deep skepticism from Arab American voters in Michigan, many of whom are appalled by President Joe Biden’s handling of the war in the Middle East and remain undecided about whether to back a candidate who supports […]
(Washington Examiner) A coalition of pro-Israel watchdogs is pressing the Biden-Harris administration to sanction a network of groups that the coalition warns are fronts for Palestinian terrorist factions, according to a letter. The letter, sent on Wednesday to the Treasury Department and […]
(Townhall) Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) only has a few months left in office, but the Squad member is being lauded in other ways for his anti-Israel narratives. While Bowman lost his primary to Westchester County Executive George Latimer in June, he’ll be […]
(Patch) Several New Jersey residents have been linked to a “persistent terror threat” to America from foreign jihadist networks and home-grown violent extremists, according to a new U.S. House report. The House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence released a “Terror […]
(Breitbart) An Islamic leader from Dearborn, Michigan, said Monday that former President Donald Trump aligns closer with the Bible, Torah, and Quran than Vice President Kamala Harris does. Imam Husham Al-Husainy of Karbalaa Islamic Center in Dearborn shared his perspective during a […]
(Daily Caller) The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ), which serves as the fiscal sponsor for a group the U.S. government recently determined is an arm of a Palestinian terrorist organization, has received nearly $20 million from liberal American philanthropies since 2020. Left-of-center […]
(AP) Kamala Harris insisted it was time to “end the suffering” in the Middle East while Donald Trump visited one of the nation’s only Muslim-majority cities on Friday as the dueling presidential contenders fought for a small but pivotal bloc of Arab […]
(Free Beacon) A nonprofit in Dearborn, Mich., that has received $24 million in taxpayer funds under the Biden-Harris administration will host dozens of physicians, government officials, and activists at an “Arab health summit” next week to address “health amidst conflict and crisis” […]
(AP) The Biden administration on Thursday announced temporary legal status for Lebanese citizens already in the United States, likely pleasing some Arab voters, including in the battleground state of Michigan. The announcement, together with an earlier offer in July, brings the number […]
(Fox) The Biden-Harris administration now admits that an Afghan national accused of plotting an Election Day terror attack did not undergo certain vetting they previously claimed he passed. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was never vetted or approved by the State Department for […]
(NBC) Last month, Mohammed Hassan, a longtime city councilor in Hamtramck, Michigan, the only Muslim-majority city in the country, got a call from someone with Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign asking him what they needed to do to win back disaffected Michigan Muslims. […]
(NY Post) Iranian operatives in the US fund and fuel hate on campus and spread propaganda across the country — and even get face time with friendly American elected officials, according to an alarming new report on extremism by George Washington University […]
(Washington Examiner) The mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, made headlines last month for endorsing former President Donald Trump. Mayor Amer Ghalib doesn’t check stereotypical Trump supporter boxes. He’s a 45-year-old Muslim, an Arab American immigrant from Yemen, and the leader of the country’s […]
(Fox) The arrest of an Afghan national now accused of plotting an Election Day terror attack on behalf of ISIS, and who entered the United States shortly after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, is reigniting long-standing questions and concerns from Republicans about […]
(NBC) An Afghan man arrested on charges of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day worked as a security guard in Afghanistan for the CIA, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested on Monday in […]
(NBC) A group of imams endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in an open letter shared first with NBC News on Sunday, a critical boost as she steps up her efforts to win back disaffected Muslim voters amid the Israel-Hamas war. Harris, the […]
(CNN) In a side room backstage at a Friday campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, Arab American advocates asked Vice President Kamala Harris to break from President Joe Biden’s Israel policy and push harder for an end to the war in Gaza. The […]
(VOA) Major Muslim and Arab American organizations and pro-Palestinian activist groups say they were excluded from Vice President Kamala Harris’ office’s outreach to community leaders on the administration’s efforts to contain the widening conflict in the Middle East. The White House said […]
(NBC) Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz addressed a Democratic Muslim voter group Thursday night as the Harris campaign works to engage a group of voters who threaten to defect in large numbers over the Biden administration’s handling of the deteriorating situation in […]
(Hill) A new coalition, Arab Americans for Harris-Walz, launched Thursday to work to unite a key demographic behind Vice President Harris before Election Day. The coalition announced it represents a “broad” group of Arab American voters, including some voters who were formerly […]
(Politico) The Harris campaign is making a new push for Muslim voters, as it tries to hold off significant defections of left-leaning voters in swing states angry over the vice president’s position on Israel amid a growing military conflict in the Middle […]
(Hill) The ongoing war in Gaza has turned historical Arab American support for Democratic candidates on its head, with 46 percent of likely voters polled by the Arab American Institute saying they would support former President Trump, while 42 percent said they […]
(Free Beacon) A Michigan activist courted by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign to shore up support from Muslim voters in the battleground state hailed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a “hero” at a rally last week, days before the terrorist was assassinated […]
(Middle East Eye) A group of leading Muslim American scholars and imams have signed a letter calling on Muslim voters to spurn Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election over US support for Israel’s war on Gaza. […]
(AP) The rapidly escalating war in the Middle East has heightened anger at Democrats from within Michigan’s Arab American community, just over a month before a presidential election in which Vice President Kamala Harris is counting on support from within a key […]
(AP) Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, marking a significant boost to her campaign since many Muslim and Arab American organizations have opted to support third-party candidates or not […]
(NY Post) A powerful House panel asked the IRS Tuesday to revoke the tax-exempt status of nine nonprofits that sowed “chaos and discord” during anti-Israel protests on college campuses, according to letters exclusively obtained by the Post. House Ways and Means Committee […]
(Breitbart) The Democrat mayor of a community with many Arab-Americans in Wayne County, Michigan, who helped lead the uncommitted movement in the Democrat primary, told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that his meeting with former President Donald Trump last week “was very […]
(Washington Examiner) As former President Donald Trump looks to cut away at Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent surge in the polls, his campaign is zeroing in on a key voting demographic it is hoping to siphon away from Democrats: Arab and Muslim […]
(Middle East Eye) A coalition of Muslim-American groups angry at US support for Israel’s devastating war on Gaza is asking Muslim voters to shun Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris in November’s presidential race and back either Jill Stein, Cornel West or other pro-Palestine […]
(Washington Examiner) President Joe Biden’s White House National Security Council recently hosted the leader of a group with a track record of collaborating in Gaza with Hamas officials, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The NSC held a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. […]
(NY Post) The group of Tajik migrants with suspected ties to ISIS had been planning an attack on an LGBTQ establishment in Philadelphia and looked to target “infidels” before they were pinched in June, the Post has learned. The eight terror suspects […]
(Reuters) Some Arab American and Muslim voters angry at U.S. support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza are shunning Democrat Kamala Harris in the presidential race to back third-party candidate Jill Stein in numbers that could deny Harris victories in battleground states that […]
(Detroit News) Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said he met with former President Donald Trump in Flint Tuesday in a private 20-minute meeting and Trump asked for the Muslim politician’s endorsement. The Republican presidential candidate campaigned Tuesday night at the Dort Financial Center […]
(Algemeiner) US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) refused to issue an explicit endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Thursday, instead encouraging voters to throw their support behind candidates who support a ceasefire in Gaza. While speaking on a panel at the […]
(NY Post) The son of a 9/11 victim claimed he’s been “banned” from reading the names of the fallen at the annual Ground Zero memorial service — ever since publicly blasting Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019 over her thoughtless “some people did […]
(Daily Wire) The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who publicly praised Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, outlined a plan to help elect 40-50 members to Congress in a sermon last month, MEMRI reported. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad […]
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