The American Muslim defense organization, CAIR, published a new account of Islamophobia in America, Islamophobia in the Mainstream. It reports that wealthy US foundations gave $105-million between 2017-2019 to hate groups with an Islamophobic agenda. It examined the 50 largest US foundations and focussed on 35 which gave the funds to 26 organizations. Among the […]
Arab Jews: the ‘Nakba’ That Wasn’t Zionist claims of a historic mass expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands are largely hype, hasbara, and myth
Over the years, a recurring hasbara trope has accused Arab states of ethnically cleansing their entire Jewish populations in the years between 1948-1956. They marshal vivid maps displaying the numbers of Jews originally in these countries and how many are left currently. Phrases like “expulsion,” “refugee,” “Jewish Nakba,” and “pogroms” are bandied about as if […]
CAIR Director Spied on Behalf of Islamophobic Hate Group Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism also served as Israeli intelligence asset reporting on US citizens
Tikun Olam relies on the support of its readers. During this holiday season, please donate (via Paypal) to my fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media. This week, CAIR announced that it had exposed a spy in its midst: its Midwest director, Romin Iqbal, had been a mole inside the group since at least 2008. He […]
The Iran-Taliban Eastward Pivot to China As Biden Withdraws from "Forever Wars" How Will US Adapt to a Changing Role?
Since the ascendancy of Xi Jinping as Chinese leader, it has increasingly asserted its role as a global rival of the US. In particular, during the Trump presidency China asserted its nationalist claims to territories in the South China Sea disputed by neighboring states. China, the US and our allies have disputed these claims and […]
