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A famous comedian and a Republican commentator have joined forces to support Joe Biden's bid for presidency.
Comment: On her show, TV host Joy Reid cast Islam and Muslims as the standard for radicalisation in the US, ignoring the country's own violent history, writes Mobashra Tazamal.
Christchurch mass murderer sentenced to life without parole
Cries filled the air outside the courtroom as New Zealand came to the collective realisation that the country's worst mass murderer would never walk free.
Trump revives racist 'birther' conspiracy theory for Kamala Harris
Comment: Just as they did for Obama, Republicans and right-wing media will level their attacks not against Harris's policy positions, but ...
Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon arrested over border wall fraud
Bannon allegedly received over $1 million of donations to a Mexico border wall fundraising campaign, funneled through a non-profit in his ...
Now you're listening, Biden, here's what Muslim Americans want
Comment: It's easy for Biden oppose Trump's racist rhetoric, but the real test lies in whether he can meaningfully engage with the Muslim American community, writes Mobashra Tazamal.
Stephen Miller is a man on a mission
Comment: Trump is calling on Stephen Miller's toxic immigration politics to distract from his falling poll numbers and a disastrous handling of ...
Trump feeds his base with steady dose of xenophobia
Comment: Trump's latest order isn't aimed at protecting the health and safety of Americans, rather it seeks to distract from his failings and ...
Between virus and violence: Being Muslim in India
Comment: India's state-sanctioned Islamophobia has singled out the country's 201 million Muslims and scapegoated them as disseminators of ...
9/11 spawned anti-Muslim playbook being weaponised in India, China
Comment: The post-9/11 discourse is a favourite tactic for 'justifying' the Islamophobic policies of governments around the world, writes ...
The New Arab's 10 biggest stories of 2019
A revolution in Sudan. A new Turkish offensive in Syria. A controversial citizenship amendment in India. These are The New Arab's top 10 stories ...
Genocide denier Peter Handke's Nobel Prize embodies Europe's Islamophobia
Comment: Awarding the Nobel prize for literature to 'genocide denier' Peter Handke reflects the Islamophobia and fascism of our times, from ...
US man arrested for beating Arabic-speaking Syrian refugee
Adrian Richard Vergara sat next to the unidentified teenage Syrian on the bus in San Diego, California before launching the attack.
Palestinian Joint List leader meets with Bernie Sanders
Palestinian-Israeli politician Ayman Odeh and Senator Bernie Sanders met on the sidelines of the annual left-leaning J Street conference in ...
Sanders, democrats vow to press Israel on Palestinian state
Democratic presidential contenders vowed Monday to switch gears sharply from Donald Trump's hawkish embrace of Israel, pledging they would press ...
Justin Trudeau wins second term in Canada elections
Trudeau now faces the task of forming an alliance with other parties in order to bolster his minority government in parliament.
Tearful Tlaib says grandmother advised her against visiting Israel
A tearful US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said that her Palestinian grandmother told her last week not to visit Israel under conditions demanded ...
Debating Trump's racism is only normalising the problem
Comment: Too scared to call Trump racist, commentators are debating the obvious and normalising the problem, writes Dan Arel.
What Trump's 'go home' comment really means
Comment: In Trump's America, being anything but white is a crime in itself, writes Sam Hamad.
Who are the Squad and what do they represent?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib – also known as the Squad – have all been targets of Trump's series of ...
'Racist' Trump tells Muslim Congresswomen to go back home
US President Trump on Sunday told unnamed Democratic Congresswomen to "go back" where they came from, prompting senior members of the party to ...
'What racism looks like': Congresswomen react to Trump's tweetstorm
Four progressive Democratic congresswomen reacted on Sunday to US President Donald Trump's suggestive tweets, telling them to 'go back' to the ...
The West could benefit from the spirit of Ramadan
Comment: The community spirit around the month of Ramadan reminds me, as a non-Muslim, what our society has lost, writes CJ Werleman.
Why is the Trump administration afraid of Hanan Ashrawi?
Comment: There's no way to divorce the decision to deny Ashrawi's visa, from the Trump administration's policy of delegitimising Palestinian ...
A Dutch far-right group are sending new recruits to training camps in France.
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