USAID staff filed an internal cable in early 2024 describing northern Gaza as an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ with bones in the streets and catastrophic food shortages — then US Ambassador Jack Lew and his deputy blocked the cable’s circulation inside government, claiming it lacked balance.
The CPJ’s 2025 annual census ranks Israel as the world’s third-worst jailer of journalists, with 29 Palestinian journalists behind bars — most in administrative detention without charge — while at least 265 Palestinian journalists have been killed and international press access remains banned.
A Florida House subcommittee voted 14-3 to advance HB 1471, which gives the state the power to designate organizations as domestic terrorists, cut off their funding, and expel students who support them. The bill was filed one month after Gov. DeSantis asked lawmakers to codify his executive order targeting CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Eight Palestinians were deported from the US to the occupied West Bank on a private jet owned by a Trump business partner — a move described as ‘highly unusual’ even by Israeli sources. The case exposes the deepening entanglement of private financial interests, pro-Israel lobbying, and US immigration enforcement.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has reached a settlement with Betar US, the far-right Zionist group, forcing it to end its ‘campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation’ targeting Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers who supported Palestinian rights.
United Voices applauds Virginia Sen. Mark Warner for using his Senate floor address to demand that colleagues loudly and resolutely condemn Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate — calling it the kind of moral clarity public officials must show as harassment and violence against Muslim and Arab communities continues to rise.
On January 9, Rep. Hillary Cassel withdrew her “No Shari’a Act” and filed HB 1471 — a sweeping bill that absorbs the anti-Shari’a provisions and adds the power to designate domestic terrorist organizations, expel students, cut off school vouchers, and prosecute supporters. A companion bill makes the process secret. It is exactly what DeSantis called for one month earlier.

Rasmussen Published a Poll Designed to Make Muslims Look Threatening. It’s Not the First Time This Playbook Has Been Used.
Rasmussen Reports released a three-question survey that United Voices says was designed not to measure public opinion but to generate anti-Muslim talking points — using selectively framed questions to produce predetermined conclusions. The same strategy was used in 2015 when a debunked poll was cited to justify a Muslim travel ban. This time, a man was arrested for attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall the same week.