This week, nearing the end of four years of service as an Obama presidential appointee to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), I felt compelled to issue a public dissent to USCIRF’s 2017 annual report.While the larger part of my dissent dealt with the wa

One thousand five hundred Palestinian prisoners have been on a hunger strike for almost a week now. They are refusing sustenance in an effort to improve the deplorable conditions faced by the nearly 6,500 Palestinians who are currently imprisoned in Israel.On the day before

This year there will be no Easter celebrations for Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt.

Over the years, many divides have defined the American social, cultural or political landscape. Some have been philosophical, others regional, issue-based, racial, economic, gender or age-related.

March 30, 1976, was a transformative moment in Palestinian history.

It was 40 years ago that I co-founded the Palestine Human Rights Campaign (PHRC) and wrote “Palestinians, the invisible victims”.I was concerned that in the American mind, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been reduced to a simple equation: Israeli humanity versus the Palestin

It looks like the Trump administration has come to agree with the conclusion reached by every US president and central command chief since the Gulf War of 1991 — that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is necessary to promote regional security and US strategic interests i

Last week, President Donald Trump issued a revised executive order restricting immigration from six majority Muslim countries and more than halving the US refugee programme.This version includes some significant changes: it is more carefully written; it removes Iraq from the list

Like many other progressives, I was disappointed that Congressman Keith Ellison lost the election to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee to former labour secretary Tom Perez. I was disappointed, but not distraught.