12 June 2013
A federal court allows lawsuit filed by CAIR that alleges institutional targeting of Muslims at US borders. Read more about Important lawsuit alleging discrimination against Muslim Americans moves forward
Washington, DC 14 May 2013
Feds assumed ADL reports were passed on to Israeli government. Read more about FBI files reveal Anti-Defamation League spied on Arab students
22 March 2013
Arabs and Mexicans are being harassed in the US, just as Palestinians are being harassed by Israeli forces. Read more about One struggle: students defend Palestinian and Latin@ rights
20 March 2013
US agency hires infiltrators who turn hapless Muslims into enemies of the state. Read more about FBI's penchant for "manufacturing terrorists" probed in new book
22 February 2013
Thousands of pages of documents released after lawsuit show US prioritized protecting Israel’s interests over its own citizens’ rights. Read more about US investigated Gaza flotilla passengers for terror ties but not Israel's slaying of citizen, new docs show
Oakland 16 January 2013
I was accused of “visually and biographically resembling” a man named as a “terror” suspect in a US State Department report. Read more about Why did a rogue group of Occupy activists smear me with "terror" claim?
10 November 2012
Petraeus articulated a taboo viewpoint: that Israel may be a strategic burden to the US. Read more about When former CIA chief David Petraeus enraged the Israel lobby
15 October 2012
The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) last week marked 27 years since the murder by bombing of Alex Odeh with a minute of silence and a call to action. Odeh, a Palestinian originally from Jifna, a West Bank village near the university town of Birzeit, was the ADC’s leader in California. In a press release, the ADC promoted this new short film which gives a good overview of the case, which remains unsolved to this day. The ADC said in an email to EI that the film was made by an ADC activist. It’s well worth a watch as it contains contemporary TV news reports about this 1985 terrorist attack. Read more about New film on unsolved terrorist attack that murdered Palestinian-American leader nearly three decades ago
15 August 2012
Invoking state secrets, a federal court has dismissed a class-action case against the FBI for unlawfully surveilling southern California’s Muslim community. Read more about US federal court upholds state secrets privilege, foregoing rights of Muslim citizens
18 April 2012
Nancy Murray, education director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, explains why she believes a “Muslim exception” is being carved out of the First Amendment, how a juror came to Tarek Mehanna’s sentencing hearing last week to ask the judge for mercy, and why Mehanna’s case has wide-reaching implications. Read more about "You will be punished if you don't become an informant": ACLU's Nancy Murray on Tarek Mehanna case