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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Muslim Americans

Paul Manni, from left, Sam Alasri, Wasel Yousaf, Waseem Makani and Abrahim Tamimi, cheer as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's speech is broadcast during an Arab Americans for Trump watch party at the Lava Java Cafe, a hookah lounge, in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
November 6, 2024, 2:09 pm
In scene unimaginable 4 years ago, Michigan Arabs bask in Trump win they helped clinch
Buying notion he can succeed in ending Gaza war where Biden and Harris failed, minority community ostracized by GOP nominee in previous elections helps him flip key swing state
By Jacob Magid
Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Mich., Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
October 5, 2024, 10:56 am
In Michigan, Harris meets Arab American leaders angry over Gaza, Lebanon conflicts
Some warn mounting anger over Democratic presidential candidate’s continued support for Israel could cost her the state, with its large Arab American community
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks during an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally at Union Park during the Democratic National Convention August 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
September 19, 2024, 3:10 pm
Muslim Americans moving to anti-Israel Jill Stein in potential blow to Kamala Harris
Green Party candidate, who is Jewish, leads among Muslim voters in swing states of Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin amid anger at Democrats for support of Israel in war against Hamas
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Anti-Israel activist Tarek Bazzi speaks in front of a Palestinian flag at an al-Quds Day rally in Dearborn, Michigan, April 5, 2024. (MEMRI screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 9, 2024, 8:24 pm
At Michigan Quds Day rally, protesters chant ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’
Speakers call to bring down ‘entire system of the United States’ over support for Israel, call Israel Nazis, ISIS, fascists and racists; Dearborn mayor pans ‘hateful rhetoric’
By Michael Horovitz
Eric Suter-Bull holds a Vote Uncommitted sign outside a voting location at Saline Intermediate School for the Michigan primary election in Dearborn, Michigan, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024 (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
February 29, 2024, 1:04 am
Michigan’s Gaza protest votes below levels seen as requiring major Biden shift
While ‘uncommitted’ ballots numbered some 100k, enough for two delegates, they fell below the threshold seen as representing a clear danger to the president’s reelection campaign
By Jacob Magid and AP
US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Santa Ana Star Center, in Rio Rancho,New Mexico, September 16, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)
September 30, 2019, 6:41 pm
Poll finds most Americans disapprove of Trump on race relations
About half of those surveyed say US president’s actions have harmed African Americans, Muslims, Hispanics and women
By Russell Contreras and Deepti Hajela
Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat-Minnesota, sits with fellow Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee during a bill markup, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 6, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
April 14, 2019, 8:13 pm
White House denies Trump inciting violence against Muslim lawmaker
Press secretary says US president directed 9/11 video at Ilhan Omar in response to freshman Democrat’s ‘history of anti-Semitic comments’
By AFP
Democrat Ilhan Omar, the US's first Somali-American legislator who won her party's congressional primary, August 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)
August 19, 2018, 4:26 am
Somali-born Muslim-American Congress candidate wants to ‘instill hope in people’
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar once called Israel an ‘apartheid regime’ but more recently came out against the BDS movement and affirmed her belief in Jewish state’s right to exist
By AP and ToI Staff
In this November 6, 2008 photo, Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, is photographed outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
August 8, 2018, 11:58 pm
West Bank relatives cheer for first Palestinian woman headed to Congress
Family certain Democrat Rashida Tlaib, running unopposed in Michigan, will ‘serve Palestine’ in House of Representatives and oppose Trump
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
U.S. Senate, Monday, July 31, 2017, at the Democratic headquarters in Phoenix. Abboud is challenging Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz, for his seat in 2018. (AP Photo/Matt York)
July 16, 2018, 9:55 am
Running in record numbers, US Muslim candidates face backlash
From Congress to school boards, more Muslims are running for office than at any time in decades, many spurred by Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric
By Philip Marcelo and Jeff Karoub
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves after a meeting with EU officials at EU headquarters, on the sidelines of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, in Brussels, on May 25, 2017. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)
May 27, 2017, 11:18 am
Tillerson reportedly declines to host annual Ramadan event
Decision breaks longstanding tradition at State Department; agency says still mulling reception to mark Muslim holiday in July
By ToI Staff
Muslim activist and BDS supporter Linda Sarsour at SiriusXM event 'Muslim in America' in New York City, October 26, 2015. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for SiriusXM/via JTA)
March 27, 2017, 4:35 pm
Pro-BDS contributions to Jewish groups — a Trojan horse?
Ahead of the UN’s Ambassadors Against BDS conference, a look at the strange bedfellows partnerships between Muslim and Jewish communities may make
By Cathryn J. Prince
An image of the sign outside the Shomrei Torah synagogue in Tallahassee, Florida. (screen capture: Google Maps)
March 1, 2017, 9:40 pm
Muslim students send flowers to Jewish organizations
After cemeteries attacked and amid bomb threats, Florida Muslims deliver bouquets to synagogues, saying ‘it is important we stand together’
By JTA
US President Donald Trump, left, congratulates then senior counselor to the president Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
February 4, 2017, 7:27 am
Bannon, in film treatment, described US Jews as unwitting ‘enablers’ of jihad
Remarks by top Trump adviser were part of a 2007 proposal for a documentary that was never made called ‘The Islamic States of America’
By JTA
Demonstrators hold signs during a rally against a ban on Muslim immigration at San Francisco International Airport on January 28, 2017 in San Francisco, California. ( Stephen Lam/Getty Images/AFP)
February 3, 2017, 7:19 pm
Precedent for Trump’s Muslim ban exists from nearly a century ago
While temporary restrictions on immigration have been put into place in recent times, it has been almost 100 years since religion played a key role
By Cathryn J. Prince
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