#ally and dearborn

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marauders era sexuality headcanons

james potter: unlabeled. he had a crush on frank but it didn't compare to his crush on lily. he can't be bothered to label himself.

remus lupin: gay gay gay

sirius black: bi. can pull every gender and does. him and marlene were each others' first kisses.

peter pettigrew: demiro + demisexual :3

hestia jones: she loves her nerd boyfriend

amos diggory: he loves his strong quidditch girlfriend

lily evans: bi. dated emmeline vance (for like 3 days before they broke out in a screaming match. enemies to lovers speedrun)

marlene mckinnon: lesbianest lesbian to ever live. her, emmeline, and sirius combined have probably flirted with everyone in gryffindor.

mary macdonald: bi (and married dean thomas' dad rahhh)

dorcas meadows: bi/ace :3

emmeline vance: lesbian. or alternatively, sapphic enemies to lovers plot point.

regulus black: thought he was aroace. turns out he's demiro + ace

barty crouch (jr): evan. / evan: barty.

davey gudgeon: straight, acts gay w his friends

sybill trelawney: bi w a HEAVY preference for women.

xenophilius lovegood: straight. #1 ally

pandora: ace + straight but made out w sybill when they were high.

frank longbottom: bi + the crush of every new first year coming in

alice fortescue: straight + the crush of every other new first year.

caradoc dearborn: benjy. in love w him but not out :(

benjy fenwick: bi. he's out.

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Battle of York

The Battle of York (27 April 1813) was a major battle in the War of 1812. It saw an American army, under Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, defeat a British, Canadian, and Ojibwe force to seize York (present-day Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada. It was the first significant US victory to be won on land during the war.

Battle of York, 1813

Owen Staples (Public Domain)

Background

The six months that followed the United States' declaration of war against the United Kingdom had not gone well for the Americans. An attempted invasion of Canada had culminated in disaster at the Siege of Detroit (15-16 August 1812), where US Brigadier General William Hull was forced to surrender both his army and Fort Detroit itself, thereby giving the British control of the Michigan Territory. Two months later, another US invasion was decisively defeated at the Battle of Queenston Heights (13 October), where nearly 1,000 US troops were taken prisoner. To make matters worse, a third American force was pulverized at the Battle of the River Raisin (18-23 January 1813) in Michigan, a bloody episode that concluded with the massacre of wounded US troops by Britain's Native American allies. These three defeats made it abundantly clear that a successful invasion of Canada would take a lot more than the "mere matter of marching" that had been anticipated by former president Thomas Jefferson.

Hoping for a reversal of the United States' dismal military fortunes, President James Madison appointed a new secretary of war, John Armstrong, Jr., in January 1813. Having studied the defeats of the previous year, Armstrong realized that control of the Great Lakes – specifically Lake Ontario – was essential for any attack on Canada to succeed. Working with Major General Henry Dearborn, the US commander of the Niagara frontier, and Commodore Isaac Chauncey of the US Navy, Armstrong planned for a squadron of ships to be built at Sacket's Harbor, on the New York side of Lake Ontario. Once completed, this squadron could ferry Dearborn's troops across the lake to strike at Kingston, the location of the major British dockyard on Lake Ontario; if captured, Kingston would give the Americans full control of the lake. Unfortunately for Armstrong, however, the British had the same idea and ordered the construction of two new sloops-of-war on Lake Ontario. The 20-gun HMS Wolfe was being built at Kingston while its sister ship, HMS Sir Isaac Brock – named after the British war hero recently slain at Queenston Heights – was under construction at York. Throughout the early winter months of 1813, therefore, the sounds of construction rang out across the lake as each side raced to get its ships in the water before the other.

Construction of the Warship HMS Sir Isaac Brock

Charles Henry Jeremy Snider (CC BY)

But as winter gave way to spring and the campaign season drew nearer, Dearborn and Chauncey started to second-guess their target. They believed Kingston was too well-guarded; according to some reports, the town was protected by 8,000 men, including 3,000 British regulars. This estimate was, in truth, a wild exaggeration – the British had only 900 regulars and a few hundred Canadian militia at Kingston – but Dearborn and Chauncey had no way of knowing this. Working under the assumption that Kingston was indeed too strong for an attack, they shifted the focus of their expedition to York (present-day Toronto). Though it was less strategically valuable than Kingston, York was the capital of Upper Canada, meaning its capture could at least help restore the United States' honor after the humiliations of 1812; the possibility of capturing the still-unfinished Sir Isaac Brock was a bonus as well. The two commanders succeeded in convincing Armstrong to sign off on the changed plan. Then, with Chauncey's ships afloat and Dearborn's soldiers gathered at Sacket's Harbor, the Americans had only to wait for the ice to finish thawing before they could learn whether their luck would change.

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Along the lines of two billboards placed earlier in the month on I-275 highway—west of Dearborn, Mich.—by the local branch of the Zionist Organization of America, a new sign was placed on US-23 near Ann Arbor on April 22, calling for the University of Michigan to “Stop Jew Hatred on Campus.”

It comes in the wake of threats, harassment, intimidation and discrimination against Jewish students at the public institution.

“The university has failed to respond to concerned students, parents and alumni who have contacted U of M, urging that it take action to stop violations of their own code of conduct and infractions of the law. We put up the billboard in hopes of getting their attention,” said Sheldon Freilich, president of ZOA-Michigan. “It’s time for enforcement—there must be serious consequences for those breaking the law and inciting antisemitism.”

Following the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, ZOA-Michigan said it has received numerous complaints from U of M students who fear for their safety. The situation has been exacerbated, it added, by pro-Hamas demonstrations on campus and in campus buildings calling for the end of Israel and the genocide of Jews, often punctuated by Nazi symbols and slogans.

In the weeks leading up to finals and graduation, antisemitic hostilities have reached a dangerous pitch.

Senior Salma Hamamy, a 22-year-old Palestinian American and the president of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), stated on her Instagram page on March 22: “Until my last breath, I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more. Death and worse.”

She was arrested in November at an anti-Israel sit-in at the office of the university’s president, Santo Ono, and in February was part of a stand-off with riot police near Detroit at a campaign event for U.S. President Joe Biden. This week, she was one part of the pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas activists that set up a tent encampment on school grounds.

In January, the University of Michigan honored Hamamy and SAFE with the 2024 Spirit of MLK Jr. Award for “exemplifying Dr. King’s leadership and extraordinary vision.”

In the last two months alone, two federal civil-rights complaints have been filed against U of M for failing to safeguard Jewish students.

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

Gaza was certainly a deciding factor, and it explains most of the Stein votes. But those Trump votes? Myeah... that was merely a final straw for a litany of issues many Arab voters had with the Dems. Between the general behavior of many (of course not all considering those who did vote for Harris) in immigrant communities, recent events in cities like Hamtramck and Dearborn, and the War on Terror era coming to a close, Arabs and Muslims flocking back to the GOP is zero surprise.

But I guess "Stop Genocide" is a better slogan to sell to their white allies than "Pack it up, Skittles Squad. It's more advantageous to ally with white supremacy because of my 'economic anxiety'" (followed by a kicking of the ladder).

Welp, they got their cultural crusader (pun intended) and economic warrior. We'll see how much they like it down the road and exactly how much sympathy from other marginalized groups they'll garner (I know that many Black folk, especially Black women, are done).

[eretzyisrael]

by Jonathan S. Tobin

It is understandable that Jewish groups want to avoid confrontations with their opponents out of fear of potential violence and because they believe that their influence is best employed in the corridors of power. But by effectively abandoning the public square to antisemites, the Jewish community has not only encouraged those screaming for violence against Jews, especially Israelis but has also created a dynamic whereby it seems as if there is only one side to the argument about whether a war against a genocidal terrorist group is justified.

Equally important, the lack of public clamor on behalf of Israel and against the pro-Hamas ceasefire advocates has sent the message to the administration that there is only one side in the debate about the war that they should listen to or fear.

This was made abundantly clear early in the Democratic primaries when Biden showed that he was far more interested in appeasing pro-Hamas voters in Dearborn, Mich., than those who advocate for Israel. In the last two months, even after Biden secured the Democratic presidential nomination, he has continued to go out of his way to avoid antagonizing Israel-haters.

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Perhaps he’s right to believe that Jewish Democrats dislike former President Donald Trump too much to consider defecting from their party. Or that they are more concerned about abortion than about defending the Jewish state. But at a time when antisemitism—and the demonization of Israel and its supporters—is escalating, perhaps it’s time for even those who intend to vote for Biden to start showing up at his rallies and speak up about the administration’s abandoning Israel. Jewish Democrats need to say that they expect Biden to stand by Israel in its just war, not to threaten it.

If Biden was made to see, as he should, that there are more votes to be lost in the political center from Americans who back Israel and don’t believe the blood libels being thrown at it, then he might understand that there is a greater political price to be paid for kowtowing to antisemites than for keeping faith with the Jewish state.

Beyond that, Jewish groups around the nation also need to understand that their mission must also include efforts to reclaim the streets.

Teaneck shows the way

A great example of a community that understood what was at stake was on display this past week in Teaneck, N.J. A month ago, an Israel real estate fair at a synagogue in that New York suburb was threatened by an antisemitic mob, egged on by Internet lies about the event. But when another pro-Israel event at a synagogue—this time honoring ZAKA volunteers charged with the gruesome task of handling corpses from the Hamas pogroms—was similarly threatened, the Jews didn’t simply depend on law enforcement to protect them. Neither did they, as sometimes happens elsewhere, cancel the event due to justified fears of violence. Instead, they organized a counterprotest that outnumbered those who were bussed into that town to vent their hatred.

The effort reflected a consensus in that community that, in the words of a spokesman for the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, “these attacks on our synagogues have to end. Full stop.”

This example needs to be emulated everywhere. Synagogues and other Jewish institutions have been targeted by vandals and antisemitic protests from those seeking to eradicate Israel “from the river to the sea,” falsely accusing Israel of “genocide” while ignoring or even denying Hamas crimes. Yet ever fearful of what a confrontation might lead to, Jewish groups don’t turn out to demonstrate that the streets don’t belong to the hatemongers and their allies. And that needs to change.

Beset by doubts about their place in a society that has embraced woke intersectional myths that marginalize Jews and browbeaten into thinking that the cause of Israel is too controversial to be compatible with a comfortable American life, too many leaders have gone silent at a moment of crisis when they need to speak up loudly that they will not be intimidated or taken for granted by politicians like Biden. They need to understand that even though support for Israel can seem a very lonely, unfashionable position, most Americans stand behind the Jewish state.

Jews need to stop cowering and start protesting. If they don’t, they’ll soon see that the antisemites will only grow bolder in their affronts to Jewish sensibilities—and political leaders will continue to believe that they need not fear losing their support.

[alvoskia]

Ally + some of her angstiest quotes (for @imminent-danger-came)

Ally cursed under her breath but for once, Dearborn didn’t chide her on language. “And you wait until now, to tell me? Really? After just giving me a lecture on trying to get to the Citadel, when you knew the others would be touring all of Alvoskia in a matter of days, while I’m stuck here with you in this stupid house—” “Ally, I know you’re upset—” “Oh, I’m well past upset.” She wiped stubbornly at her face as she paced. “What the Hel was that, telling me in front of everyone, like I’m some kind of freak show again—”

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Seaman Apprentice Carlton J. Dearborn cements a stringer on the fuselage of a balsam model of a Stuka Dive Bomber at Camp Smalls, U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IL, on March 13, 1943.

Record Group 80: General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series: General Photographic Files

Image description: S2C Dearborn sits at a table covered in aircraft schematics, pieces of balsam wood, and a small bottle of adhesive. Also on the table is a model of an Allied aircraft. S2C Dearborn is holding the frame of a fuselage, painting adhesive onto a join. On the wall behind him are posters of aircraft parts.

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Ah, suburbia!

As a native Detroiter - Detroit Detroit, as opposed to one of the suburbs - I had good time with a story that ran last week in the Metro Times, an alternative weekly newspaper.

The headline: "What your Detroit suburb says about you"

Some of the assessments are a little harsh and are, no doubt, meant to get a rise out of the good citizens of suburbia.

The Metro Times staff tried to deflect criticism in its intro to the story: "Hey, don’t come at us for this, we’re just telling you what everyone else is already thinking ..."

A sample ...

Ferndale: "You’re probably a part of the LGBTQ+ community or at least an ally, you like to drink coffee, and you complain all the time that Ferndale used to be better before it started getting more like Royal Oak.

Royal Oak: "You’re a sorta-cool progressive white person who may have lived in the city when you were younger, but then got married and had kids and moved out to a house that is too expensive for how mid it looks."

Dearborn: "Statistically speaking, you are probably Arab and you definitely know where the best shawarma and hookah bars are."

Birmingham: "You’re from new money and when you and your spouse aren’t working your intense jobs, you’re on Tinder looking for a third."

Allen Park: "You are Downriver, with all that that entails, which means you are either a blue-collar worker or a savvy drug entrepreneur."

Farmington Hills: "Honestly, a white guy rapping about being the king of 'Farmington, Farmington Hills' while wearing Crocs pretty much sums up your entire vibe."

Roseville (Sharon's hometown): "You’re white trash and proud."

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H.M. Sloop of War ''Sir Isaac Brock'', on the Stocks at York (Toronto), April 1813, drawing by Owen Staples c. 1913 (Toronto Public Library).

Fearing that Kingston had too strong a British garrison, [American General Henry] Dearborn sought a surer victory by attacking a secondary target: York. Poorly fortified and lightly defended (by seven hundred men), York also promised a symbolic payoff as the capital of Upper Canada. And there was the allure of a warship, the Sir Isaac Brock, under construction at York. By capturing and completing that ship, the Americans could increase and prolong their command of Lake Ontario. [...]

Making the best of a bad situation, the British commander, General Roger H. Sheaffe, ordered a retreat by his regulars toward Kingston to the east. He had fires set to destroy the Sir Isaac Brock and to blow up a stock of gunpowder in a stone storehouse. The massive explosion sent skyward a deafening fireball and tons of stone, which fell in a deadly rain on the advancing American troops, killing 38 and wounding 222.

— Alan Taylor, The Civil War Of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies

Although destroying military assets before they fall into enemy hands is standard practice, General Dearborn was apparently so annoyed by the destruction of Sir Isaac Brock that he delayed in ratifying an agreement of surrender after capturing York. This would have far-reaching consequences. American soldiers and sailors looted and burned York, and this was an impetus for British forces eventually burning the White House in revenge.

US Brigadier-General Zebulon Pike fatally wounded in the explosion of the Fort York gunpowder magazine, 1813 (The Friends of Fort York).

[bllsbailey]

Is Something Fishy Here? People Cannot Let This Part of the 2024 Election Go Unnoticed

California is dragging its feet counting its ballots, but the race is over. Donald J. Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States. Over 80 percent of counties shifted to the right. Trump won 312 electoral votes, the most for any Republican in 36 years, and the popular vote, a GOP first in two decades. Republicans retook the Senate and retained control of the House. It’s a Democrat's worst nightmare: an emboldened Trump ahead of a unified government that is packed by MAGA allies. It should be a great four years of peace and prosperity, but some are noticing these aspects from the returns that cannot be ignored vis-à-vis the 2020 election. 

Turnout is roughly the same as it was four years ago, but it’s casting some suspicious vibes among many about the 81 million votes cast for Joe Biden. The pandemic election was arguably fraught with shenanigans, including midnight vote dumps with unverified mail-in ballots. That's why the Republican National Committee and the party's activist wing did an excellent job of having a legal brigade ready to file lawsuits and challenges on voting processes this time. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a prime example, where voters were illegally turned away, leading to a challenge and a judge extending the early voting period. On the county's last day of early voting, the lines were long, and the locations were still understaffed, but everyone who waited cast their ballot. Trump eventually won the county, another first for a Republican since 1988. 

Once again, Trump won virtually all the bellwether counties, like in 2020, but Biden won then. Now, with COVID pansy guardrails removed regarding the election process, Trump delivered a blowout loss to Kamala and the Democrats. Initially, it looked like more of a scandal since not all the ballots were counted. At one point, the voter turnout was roughly the same as four years ago, with 14-18 million fewer Democratic votes. Still, it’s a bit suspicious when you see Obama’s vote totals, who earned that with an ace get-out-the-vote operation fraught with voters who, like Trump voters, lined up to vote for Barry in droves. And then, you see Mr. Biden’s 81 million votes, and this guy doesn’t have a modicum of the political skill or charisma the 44th president embodies. Are we supposed to believe that many people voted for the man? 

If anything, the massive drop-off shows how bad Kamala was as a candidate. She lost Dearborn, Michigan, to Trump, barely won New Jersey, and the urban bubble, where some of the wealthiest counties reside, saw the most profound shifts toward the GOP this cycle. I’ll let you all glean from the results and the 81 million votes that supposedly went to Biden, but something sure smells fishy. I wish I could frame that more strongly, but the search engine Gestapo will toss me into the gulag. And it’s not insane, tin foil hat stuff—a Chinese student in Michigan illegally voted, but the vote will count because there’s no mechanism to flag these fraudulent ballots. And we all know he wasn’t the only one, but the pandemic is over, and voter integrity measures were passed and enforced this time, for the most part.

Also, something is happening in Wisconsin:

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Dearborn conference where Tlaib spoke features numerous speakers praising Oct. 7 jihad massacre

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Trump in Michigan makes play for Arab American and Muslim voters angry over war in Gaza

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday invited several Muslim leaders onstage with him at a campaign rally in Michigan as he courts Arab American and Muslim voters disillusioned or angry over US policy on Israel and Gaza in the critical battleground state.

“They could turn the election one way or the other,” Trump said in the Detroit suburb of Novi, located about a half hour from Dearborn, which last year became the first Arab-majority city in the US.

Trump said in his speech that he had held a meeting earlier in the day with Muslim leaders. He was joined onstage by what his campaign described as “prominent leaders of Michigan’s Muslim community,” including Imam Belal Alzuhairi, who described Trump as the “peace” candidate.

“We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace – he promises peace, not war,” Alzuhairi said. “We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine.”

Trump has criticized Israel’s war in Gaza on public relations grounds, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military need to “get it over with fast.” He has also slammed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for not adequately supporting Israel, though the current administration – and Harris’ campaign – has largely refused to criticize Israel or consider halting weapons shipments to the country.

“You know, as a developer, it could be the most beautiful place – the weather, the water, the whole thing, the climate,” Trump said. “It could be so beautiful.”

During his first month as president, in 2017, Trump issued an executive order banning entry for 90 days by citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The order indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and blocked all refugees from entering the US for four months. (After a lengthy court battle, the “travel ban” survived in part. Biden revoked the orders in 2021 immediately after being sworn in.)

The Trump campaign and its allies, though, have sought to seize on Arab American and Muslim anger over continued US support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and, more recently, Lebanon, by criticizing Harris and Biden from both sides – telling anti-war voters that Trump would secure peace and claiming to pro-Israel voters that the Democrats don’t have their back.

Trump has frequently questioned why Jewish Americans would consider voting for Harris, repeatedly saying that Jewish Democrats “should have their head examined.” At an event in September billed as opposing antisemitism, he even warned that “the Jewish people would have a lot to do” with his potential loss in November.

Harris, who has called for a ceasefire in Gaza and has said she supports a two-state solution in the region, has taken more heat from pro-Palestinian and anti-war activists, who have pleaded with her to break from Biden and say she supports conditioning military aid to Israel.

During a brief meeting three weeks ago in Flint, Michigan, a group of Arab American advocates and leaders pressed Harris “to show distance between how she would govern on this matter with the current administration policies, which we don’t agree with,” as Wa’el Alzayat, the CEO of Muslim American advocacy group Emgage Action, told CNN afterward.

Trump at his rally on Saturday claimed that “Jews, Catholics, evangelicals, Mormons, Muslims are joining our cause in larger numbers than ever before and now the most wonderful thing is happening.”

“The Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan and across the country want a stop to the endless wars and a return to peace in the Middle East. That’s all they want,” Trump said.

Trump also, again, used Harris’s recent round of campaigning alongside former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, whose father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, was one of the leading architects of the US invasion of Iraq and the yearslong war that followed. Both Cheneys have endorsed Harris.

Hours later, Harris, while campaigning in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was interrupted early in her speech by a protester, who shouted, “No more Gaza war.”

“On the topic of Gaza, we must end that war. And we must end the war and bring the hostages home,” Harris said, as the audience tried to drown out the demonstrator.

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Israel strikes central Beirut, US protests erupt against Israel’s attacks on Gaza, Lebanon

Israel struck a residential building in Beirut on Monday, killing three members of a Palestinian armed group in the first strike on the city centre since Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza began nearly a year ago. In recent days, Israel has shifted its focus from Gaza to Lebanon, striking at regional allies of Iran. On Friday, strikes on Hezbollah targets killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed group.

Strikes on Beirut’s centre

On Monday, a drone attacked “a flat belonging to the Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya,” a security source said.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular leftist group, said three of its members were killed in a strike Monday on Beirut’s Kola neighbourhood. The group said in a statement that its military security chief Mohammad Abdel-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh and Abdelrahman Abdel-Aal were killed.

The Israeli military said it carried out fresh strikes on Monday against dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’s Bekaa region.

Israel “will continue powerful attacks, damage and destroy Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon,” the army said in a statement published on Telegram. Television footage showed the partially demolished floor of the targeted building in the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Kola, near the road linking the capital to Beirut airport.

Agence France-Presse journalists also reported drones flying over the Lebanese capital throughout Sunday.

Israeli attacks have killed hundreds of people in Lebanon since September 23, the deadliest day since the 1975-1990 civil war. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli strikes killed at least 105 people and injured 359 others on Sunday.

Israeli bombings have killed more than 700 people in the past week, including 14 paramedics in two days, the ministry said. UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said “more than 200,000 people have been displaced inside Lebanon” and more than 50,000 have fled to neighbouring Syria.

Assassination of Hamas chief in Lebanon

The head of the Palestinian Hamas movement’s headquarters in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amin, has also been killed in an Israeli airstrike, the group’s press office said. The strike allegedly hit his home in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Lebanese city of Tyre. Along with him in the house were his wife, son and daughter. According to Hamas, they were all killed.

Demonstrations in support of Lebanon across US

In US cities this week, a sea of Palestinian flags was joined by Lebanese flags as demonstrators gathered to show their support for the latest victim of indiscriminate Israeli attacks.

On Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, several hundred demonstrators gathered in front of the city’s Federal Building, with activists giving speeches, people chanting and drawing chalk drawings in support of Gaza and Lebanon. Laila Ali with the Palestinian Youth Movement told The New Arab:

We gathered here today in front of the Federal Building because of Israel’s escalation in Lebanon. And it’s following up to about a year of genocide in Gaza. We are here to demand an arms embargo and to prevent this escalation into a full-out regional war.

She also continued:

I think with this past year how Israel has been able to act with impunity without any sort of reprimand from the West, with a green light to keep going, they have decided to continue and expand their war, to expand their genocide, to expand their attacks against Arab people.

Meanwhile, the city of Dearborn in southeastern Michigan, home to one of thepos highest concentrations of Arabs and Muslims in the US, has seen numerous demonstrations over the past week in recognition of Israel’s escalating war in Lebanon.

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Project 2025 is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican candidate win the 2024 presidential election. It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees to replace them with those who are willing to enact the wishes of the next Republican president. The president will have absolute power over the executive branch. Critics have characterized it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the US into an autocracy. It would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Paul Dans, the director, said the project is “systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, aligned, trained, and weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state.” It proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.

its partners employ over 200 former officials from the Trump administration. Notable authors of the project’s Mandate for Leadership include many officials and advisors from the Trump administration, including Jonathan Berry, Ben Carson, Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Dearborn, Thomas Gilman, Mandy Gunasekara, Gene Hamilton, Christopher Miller, Bernard McNamee, Stephen Moore, Mora Namdar, Peter Navarro, William Perry Pendley, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Kiron Skinner, Roger Severino, Hans von Spakovsky, Brooks Tucker, Russell Vought, and Paul Winfree.

Former president Trump has never publicly endorsed it, and his campaign downplayed it in November 2023 as mere “policy recommendations from external allies.” He disavowed it in July 2024, days after Kevin Roberts’s remarks. Several critics expressed skepticism of his denial.

The leaders began recruiting people for future government posts in the event of a Republican victory. #knowledgeispower #votelikeyourlifedependsonit #trumpsproject2025

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[eretzyisrael]

by Chuck Ross

Days after his latest White House chat, Siblani said last week that Iran had a "right to defend itself" after Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing Iranian general Mohammad Reza Zahedi. Siblani called the United States an "accomplice" in what he said was an illegal bombing of the embassy, and referred to President Biden as "Genocide Joe."

Siblani has a well-documented history of anti-Israel and pro-terrorist rhetoric. He has accused pro-Israel lawmakers of being "bought" by the "Zionist lobby," and in 2022, he urged Arabs to fight against Israel with "stones" and "guns," and praised fedayeen, or Islamic militants.

Citing those remarks, Jewish groups criticized the White House in February for meeting with Siblani as part of Team Biden’s bid to shore up support from Michigan’s Arab- and Muslim-American communities. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez met Siblani in Dearborn, Michigan, in January, and White House national security officials visited him there in February.

"Siblani is simply the wrong choice to serve as an interlocutor with the administration as they hear from the local Muslim community," Anti-Defamation League president Jonathan Greenblatt said in February.

Siblani has thus far been spared the fate of other Biden allies who made anti-Israel remarks. In December, White House officials criticized the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for saying he was "happy to see" Hamas attack Israel on Oct. 7.