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Arab
American
activists
held
protests
on
Tuesday,
May 18,
2021
during
President
Biden's
visit to
Dearborn,
Michigan
which
has one
of the
highest
percentage
of Arab
Americans
of any
U.S.
city.
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“We’re
here
today to
support
the
Palestinian
people
and to
make
sure
that
their
voices
are
heard,”
she
said.
“And
that,
you
know,
hopefully
the U.S.
can
stand up
and
stand
with
them
instead
of
against
them.”
said
Amer
Zahr,
President
of the
New
Generation
for
Palestine.
He
highlighted
the
diversity
among
the
protest’s
attendees.
“We have
Jordanians
with us.
We have
Lebanese
with us.
We have
our
Yemeni
brothers
and
sisters.”
(Photo
by HB
Meeks/Tell
Us USA
News
Network) |
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Arab
Americans
protest
Biden’s
visit to
Dearborn
Posted
by HB
Meeks
Tell Us
USA News
Network
DEARBORN
-
President
Biden
ipaid
visit
the
Ford’s
new
Rouge
Electric
Vehicle
Center
in
Dearborn
on
Tuesday,
May 18,
with a
possible
reception
and
speech
planned
to begin
around
1:30
p.m.
This
visit
comes as
Biden
has
repeatedly
expressed
his
unwavering
support
for
Israel,
whose
government
is
currently
bombarding
families
in Gaza.
The
death
toll has
surpassed
200,
including
61
children,
many
still
trapped
under
rubble
from
destroyed
buildings.
Meanwhile
the U.S.
has
blocked
U.N.
Security
Council
resolutions
for a
ceasefire
three
times.
Instead
of
expressly
condemning
this
murder
of
Palestinian
civilians
by
Israel’s
powerful
military,
Biden
and his
administration
have
repeatedly
made
statements
about
Israel’s
“right
to
defend
itself”
from
retaliatory
rockets
from
Hamas.
They
have
refused
to say
that
Palestinians
have the
same
right to
defend
themselves.
A top
view
shows
the
remains
of a
six-story
building
which
was
destroyed
by an
early
morning
Israeli
airstrike,
in Gaza
City,
Tuesday,
May 18,
2021.
Israel
carried
out a
wave of
airstrikes
on what
it said
were
militant
targets
in Gaza,
leveling
a
six-story
building
in
downtown
Gaza
City,
and
Palestinian
militants
fired
dozens
of
rockets
into
Israel
early
Tuesday,
the
latest
in the
fourth
war
between
the two
sides,
now in
its
second
week.
(AP
Photo/Khalil
Hamra)
There
has also
been no
real
acknowledgement
from the
administration
of the
events
that
have led
to the
current
situation.
These
include
Israel’s
continued
illegal
settlement
operations,
crackdowns
on
subsequent
protests
against
removal
of
Palestinians
from
their
homes in
occupied
East
Jerusalem,
and
multiple
sieges
of the
Al-Aqsa
mosque
during
Ramadan.
All this
happened
before
Hamas
shot its
first
rocket.
The
world
also
learned
on
Monday
that the
Biden
administration
approved
$735
million
in
weapons
sales to
Israel,
raising
questions
by
members
of the
U.S.
Congress,
as the
carnage
of
innocent
Palestinians
continue.
Israel
has
claimed
it is
attacking
Hamas
and
other
combatant
sites,
offering
no proof
of their
presence
in the
residential
and
commercial
buildings
it has
leveled,
including
a tower
housing
international
media.
The Arab
American
community
is
outraged
over
this
callousness,
During
his
campaign,
Biden
said
Israel’s
settlement
and
annexation
plans
were a
roadblock
to peace
in the
region.
That was
when
former
President
Donald
Trump
was
exercising
the same
kind of
support
for
Benjamin
Netanyahu’s
right-wing
government
it is
receiving
from the
White
House
now. It
was also
the same
time the
Democratic
Party
was
looking
for
valuable
votes
from the
Arab
community.
Furthermore,
Biden
made a
campaign
promise
that his
foreign
policy
will be
based on
human
rights,
a
promise
that has
been
shattered
as he
has
supported
Israeli
war
crimes
and
ethnic
cleansing
policies
against
Palestinians.
The Arab
American
News,
New
Generation
for
Palestine
(NGP),
and
Students
for
Justice
in
Palestine
at Wayne
State
University
organized
the
rally at
the
Dearborn
Police
Department
on
Tuesday.
From the
organizers:
“We
simply
can’t
remain
silent.
Join us.
Bring
your
family,
your
neighbors
and your
friends.”
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