ADC’s leadership is as corrupt and autocratic as your run of the mill Arab regime; with the significance as a governing body that rivals the government of Djibouti, and a record of accomplishments that falls short of Qaddafi’s.
Arab-Americans deserve better and we start asserting ourselves through our dissent of the ADC’s actions and a unified indignation for its leadership.
Each one of us plays their role in history.
There is a lot wrong with ADC, but there is a lot right. It is worth saving. I challenge everyone angry about the Malek Jandali affair to take ownership of ADC and fix it. Boycott is not the answer.
On the stage, speakers discussed Palestine and Iraq. And then suddenly, in the middle of a touching speech, a strong voice, in Arabic, shouted: “Enough already! Where is the belly dancer?”
The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee plans to issue a statement condemning the gross negligence by security officials over the weekend, which put in danger America’s largest Arab community, when a passenger tried to blow up an airplane over Detroit by igniting a plastic explosive he carried on his person past airport security.
The Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee issued a press release today commending passengers who “restrained a Nigerian man” trying to blow up a plane in Detroit. The press release serves absolutely no function except to notify people that the suspect is not Arab. ADC should know that if it is trying to fight racial profiling, pointing out [...]
Adam Shapiro writes in the Huffington Post about a young internationally-oriented do-gooder who ends up being elected to Congress on a whim. Shapiro made his acquaintance before he planned to run for office. Congressman Tom Perriello’s election, along with the new Obama rhetoric, gave the activist-filmmaker Shapiro some hope. It proved short-lived, but also points to the need for us to get better organized in Washington, DC..
It almost seems appropriate that since I’m a Palestinian-American Muslim from Northern Virginia who also happens to be from the same hometown in Palestine (El-Bireh) as Ft. Hood shooter suspect Nidal Hasan, I should issue a press release expressing my outrage and condemnation along with every other Arab-American and Muslim-American organization. But I won’t. I [...]
One of the most notable features of this year’s American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s annual convention in Washington, DC was the appearance of ex-President Bill Clinton.