Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring, a former State Department official, guilty of 14 counts of making threats against my life and my staff at the Arab American Institute.

I have just returned from Detroit, Michigan, where I attended the second set of Democratic Party presidential primary debates. For many reasons, the debates were a frustrating experience.

When Americans express concern about religious extremism and violence, they almost always are thinking about Islam.

While much has been already been written about President Donald Trump’s recent racist taunts against four first-term women members of Congress, I have a few observations of my own to make. In the first place, no one should have been surprised that as Trump began his reelecti

In the coming week, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will move on four bills — all of which, I believe, drive more nails in the coffin of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

I am writing from my home in Washington, DC, on the evening of July 4, deeply troubled by the display that has just unfolded a few kilometres  away on our National Mall.

I was not at the "Peace to Prosperity" summit, but I listened to some of the speeches and read the documents the White House produced, and nothing I saw changed my belief that the entire affair was long on fantasy, short on reality.

The attitudes of Democratic voters toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have become decidedly more balanced in the past two decades. Favourable attitudes toward Palestinians are up, while attitudes toward Israel appear to be in decline.

I have long argued that the American identity was fundamentally different than that of most other countries in the world.