Palestine

Are The Feds Unfairly Targeting Muslim Students Who Oppose Israel?

In Washington D.C. today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened a probe of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), following reports that the IRS was unfairly targeting conservative non-profit groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement. Closer to home, the California chapter of the Counc ... More >>

Knafeh Cafe's 99 Ways of Sweet

[Hole In the Wall] This Anaheim bakery sells the best Middle Eastern pastries in Orange County

Middle Eastern Store In Little Arabia Pulls Sabra Hummus After Activists Complain Brand Supports Israeli Military

Fresh Choice Marketplace in Garden Grove found itself in a bit of political hot water when customers started complaining about the grocery store carrying Sabra hummus on its shelves. The question wasn't centered on the quality of the brand itself--long a favorite Middle Eastern food brand in the Uni ... More >>

Maen Areikat, Chief Representative of Palestine Liberation Organization Set to Visit OC

Stationed in the nation's capital, diplomat Maen Rashid Areikat wasn't invited to President Barack Obama's second inauguration. As he told The National, the oversight was relayed as unintentional resulting from outdated contact information. Whatever the case, the chief representative of the Palestin ... More >>

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson and Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro

[UPDATED with ASUCI Supporting Divestment:] UCI Student Panel Calls for Divesting from Firms Aiding Israeli "Apartheid"

See Update No. 3 at the end of page 3 of this post on leaders of UCI's Associated Students signing the resolution urging the university to divest from named companies for human rights abuses in Palestine. See Update Nos. 1-2 on ASUCI's legislative council unanimously passing the resolution urging di ... More >>

'Caesar's Messiah': Rome Invented Jesus

Joseph Atwill's new doc claims the legends accumulated around the prophet were created as a way of pacifying the Jews

It is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl

Art Theatre

Composers Naser Musa and Yuval Ron Dream of Peace

Their collaboration at the Hawks and Doves In the Garden of Peace event in Laguna Beach promotes a vision of peace in Palestine

The OCeeker: Temple Beth Shalom and the Rabbi From Cuteyville

​Shalom, y'all. That's right, the OCeeker recently drove his goyisher self to Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Ana for a Shabbat evening service. First things first: Rabbi Heidi Cohen is one cute clergygirl! Decked in black slacks and a red blouse, with a loose-fitting, long-sleeve black outer gar ... More >>

Taher Herzallah, "Irvine 11" Defendant, is Unrepentant at UC Santa Barbara

​"My people are being killed, my people are being oppressed, I'm going to do everything I can do to stop this. I'm not going to follow a form of protest that fits the status quo that allows my people to be oppressed." --Taher Herzallah, one of the so-called "Irvine 11," speaking at UC Santa Bar ... More >>

Why do Americans Call Mexicans 'Illegals'?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And what do Mexicans think of Koreans?

Futures of Syria and Bashar Assad Aired at Town Hall

​The focus of the international media may have switched from Syria to Israel-Palestine (for now), but that won't stop the Los Angeles chapter of the Syrian American Council from holding its third town hall meeting in Anaheim Saturday to examine the current situation and future outlook for members' ... More >>

Irvine 11 Trial: Defense Compares Protest to Comedy Club Heckling--'Rude, Not Illegal'

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​"Of course it was planned," said defense attorney Jacqueline Goodman in her opening arguments today, addressing the charge that the so-called Irvine 11 (now 10) conspired to disrupt a public speech.     "They conspired to obey the law, which is the opp ... More >>

UC Irvine's Controversial Muslim Student Union Wins Anteater Award

​Disrupting a speech on campus by an Israeli government official. The suspension, probation and criminal prosecution that followed the incident. The annual teach-ins on the Israel-Palestine issue some have dubbed "Hate Week."Yep, headlines involving the Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine have been ... More >>

UCI Muslim Student Union Event's Name was Less Threatening, But Critics Charge It Was Still Extreme

​Perhaps it was the UC Irvine-imposed suspension or the negative publicity over the disruption of Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren's February 2010 speech on campus or just plain old growing up, but the embattled Muslim Student Union just presented a kinder- and gentler-sounding program ... More >>

'Miral' Shows Off Its Muddle-East Politics

Style, but little substance in Julian Schnabel's Palestine plea

Orange Countians Closely Watching Events Unfold in Egypt Agree the U.S. Must Get Behind Its People

​"It's a moment of total euphoria," Edina Lekovich, director of policy and programming with the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Los Angeles, said during this morning's uninterrupted KTLA/Channel 5 news coverage of the events unfolding in Egypt after the resignation and departure of Egyptian Presi ... More >>

'Avatar'-Inspired Song by Victor-E of El Vuh

​ It's hard to believe, but director James Cameron's blockbuster film Avatar just turned one year old last Saturday. The birthday of the highest-grossing movie in cinematic history has coincided with talk of confirmed sequels to come. But before any new Avatar films hit the silver screen, rapper V ... More >>

War! What's It Good For? Five Comics for People Who Don't Like War Comics

Dynamite/Gary Leach; Vertigo/Dave Johnson​War comics can be an acquired taste, mostly because the traditional model plays around with some formula of tortured soldier, brutal combat, victimized civilians, heavy pathos. Rinse. Repeat. If these elements don't appeal to you, odds are high the comic-- ... More >>

Beyond the Headliners

[Coachella 2010] Nine acts that stand out from the sweaty, dusty crowd

A Modest Proposal From Jarret Lovell in Light of UCI Muslim Protester Arrests

KUCI.eduCal State Fullerton professor and KUCI radio host Jarret Lovell.​Jarret S. Lovell is a Cal State Fullerton professor of politics, UC Irvine graduate and radio show host and longtime Orange County progressive activist. Among the many causes he has taken up over the years is social justice f ... More >>

McKinney Follows UC Irvine Speech With Israeli Detention [UPDATED, THE SEQUEL]

UPDATE: MCKINNEY IS ON HER WAY HOME, REPORTS ATLANTA-JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ...Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) is shown speaking at UC Irvine May 13 as part of the Muslim Student Union's controversial, three-week "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" teach-in. Here she makes the c ... More >>

[Special Screenings] 'Under the Bombs,' 'Border Café,' 'The Big Lebowski,' More

Pros and Cons to Muslim Student Union Event at UCI

The debate over the appropriateness of the UC Irvine Muslim Student Union's "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" event we told you about Friday (and which continues through May 21) has spilled into the page of the student newspaper New University.Specifically, it turns up in the opinion section, where ... More >>

UCI Muslim Student Union Event Draws Ire of Local Jews

As this promotional video shows, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union is at it again, presenting 18 days of events this month under the banner "Israel: the Politics of Genocide." Among those coming to the campus through May 21 are: George Galloway, the British member of Parliament who speaks against th ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] From Puebla to Palestine

George Galloway

Embassy Suites Anaheim South

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Strangers,' 'Sid and Nancy,' More

Little Gaza Protest: the More Things Don't Change

Here is a photo from the protest at the "Little Gaza" area of Brookhurst Street over Israel's violent actions against Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.But here's the twist: photographer S. Twair did not snap the shot during Sunday's demonstration, which drew about 200 people over four hours pro ... More >>

You can't protest us; we're already protesting you!

On Saturday, OC Weekly staff writer Luke Y. Thompson and myself took to the streets to see what was going on in Anaheim as a left-wing group known as the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition and put together a fairly huge "Anti-Zionism" protest with only a few days notice. Fairly predictably, a smaller scale "Pr ... More >>

Docu-comic

Cartoonist Joe Sacco's graphic depiction of Palestine brings the suffering to life

Against the Wall

Praying, eating and bowling with the most hated student group at UC Irvine

Screw the Mariners: We Love 'Em!

The premise was as simple as it's hackneyed: in anticipation of a mega-baseball series, writers from each city would trash the other team. At least that's what I proposed to Mike Seely, managing editor for our brother paper to the north, Seattle Weekly, because your Anaheim Angels and his Seattle Ma ... More >>

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Terrorists Attack US Power Plant

Israeli terrorists have caused significant damage to a power plant in Palestine, insured by the U.S. government for up to $48 million dollars. READ THE STORY ON ALJAZEERA.COM Tony Snow, White House Chief of Verbal Diarrhea, previously described Israel's current assault on the Palestinians as legi ... More >>

They Don't Know Sith

O.C. Film & Music Festival is a no CGI zone

Spinning Out of Control

How Mark LeVine survived The OReilly Factor

Terror-Fied

The War on Terror begins at home. My home.

Who's Your Daddy

Hey, since your countrys ruling over mine, can I rule over yours?

EIGHT DAYS

Purge This

Humanity triumphs in LChayim, Comrade Stalin

Divine Comedy

Love, life and laughs in the West Bank

War, Peace and Hank

Onscreen dissent is on campus

Sex and Dancing Lesbos

Diary of a mad county

War! Huh?

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

Diary of a Mad County

I Cannot Take This Again

Arab-American fears the worst

The Terrorist Next Door

The U.S. says a former Anaheim resident is trying to kill us all