Osama Siblani

Roey Gilad, Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, and Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News, will tape "Michigan Matters" this week to talk about issues simmering in the Middle East.

About The Guests. During his 23 year tenure with Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gilad has served in various positions outside of Israel including the United Kingdom, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and Kenya. The Consul General was head of the Political Affairs Department in Israel's Embassy in London; media spokesperson in Israel's Embassy in Amman, and the second secretary in Nairobi during his first posting.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1955, Siblani came to the United States in 1976 to pursue his education. He completed his B.S.S. in electrical engineering in 1979 at the University of Detroit. In 1980 he assumed the position of Vice President at Energy International, Inc., a major import-export firm dealing with the Middle East. He held this position until he began The Arab American News in 1984, at which time he resigned to run the newspaper full-time.

Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News, a 25,000-circulation weekly...

Anti-Israel ActivityExtremism, Terrorism & Bigotry. The Arab American News, a.k.a. Sada Al Watan (Arabic for “Echo of the homeland”), is a dual-language Arabic-English newspaper published weekly in Dearborn, Michigan. Established in 1984 by publisher Osama A. Siblani, the paper has been described as the largest Arab community newspaper in the U.S. by the U.S. government-funded AlHurra satellite television station...

In 2003, Siblani again expressed his support for terrorist groups when he told the Washington Post: “Mr. Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters.” When senior CNN Middle East News Editor Octavia Nasr was fired in 2010 after publicly mourning the death of a Hezbollah leader, Siblani commented, “This is unbelievable what is happening in the United States of America. You can say anything you want- except when it comes to Israel.”

As chairman of the CAAO, Siblani has coordinated anti-Israel protests and Palestinian solidarity projects for the Arab and Muslim community. At a 2006 anti-Israel protest in Washington D.C., Siblani thanked the crowd for its support and led them in a chant, yelling, “Who is a freedom fighter?” and the crowd responding, “Hezbollah!”...

The Arab American News publishes articles by known anti-Semites including Jeff Gates, the author of the anti-Semitic book Guilt by Association and numerous articles that propagate theories of Jewish control over the U.S. government and foreign policy; Paul Craig Roberts, a syndicated columnist who promotes 9/11 and other conspiracy theories and has questioned Holocaust history, alleging that the “Israel lobby” halts those who “study the facts” from coming to an “independent conclusion” on the Holocaust; and James Petras, a retired professor of sociology who has stated that [U.S.] presidents are at the disposal of "Jewish power" and maintained that Jews represent “the greatest threat to world peace and humanity.” The paper also offers a voice to critics of Israel that frequently write in support for terrorist groups such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.

Several Biden administration senior officials traveled to Michigan to meet with Muslim leaders, including controversial Dearborn activist Osama Siblani. ...After the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel, Siblani, the paper’s publisher, defended [1] Hamas. “Hamas is not a terrorist organization, and we have to say to them the terrorist is Benjamin Netanyahu and his government,” said Siblani...

Siblani has over the years [2] expressed support for terrorist groups. “If the FBI wants to come after those who support the resistance done by Hezbollah, then they better bring a fleet of buses. I for one would be willing to go to jail,” he said in 2006 [3]. Years earlier, in 2003, he told [4] The Washington Post: “[George] Bush believes Hezbollah, Hamas and other Palestinian factions are terrorists, but we believe they are freedom fighters.”

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Source: Online Platforms - "Amr Zaher’s Facebook page". [5]

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FBI Arrests Radical Islamist Jeffrey #Stevens for Threatening to Shoot and Kill Pro-Israel Government Officials and Jews Residing in #Fort #Wayne, #Indiana, US

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After making death threats against Jews and government officials, a freelance journalist for the Dearborn, Michigan-based publication The Arab American News, was arrested earlier this week and now faces up to five years in federal prison.

Forty-one-year-old Jeffrey Stevens, who lives in Indiana, was charged with one count of making threats using interstate communication, which carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison.

He reportedly wrote “I am going to kill every Jew in ft. Wayne, and there is nothing you can do to stop it because you are stupid n***ers,” in a Facebook message to Inidana’s Fort Wayne Police Department. He continued, “I am going to make sure I kill every one of you, especially the dark ones, and there is nothing you stupid n***ers can [do] about it.”

According to an affidavit, he also threatened to “shoot every pro-Israel U.S. government official” and “make sure that every CIA member who is pro-Israel is eliminated.”

He claimed he had “strong Palestinian, Hezbollah, and Iranian contacts.”

In December, Stevens also allegedly wrote “People will remember me. I am going to be the pro-Palestinian who finally had enough that i started eliminating CIA operatives. You will only be remembered as one of the many bitches who were slaughtered. I am going to make sure that every CIA member who is pro-Israel is eliminated. I am so confident that I will give you my phone number, and there is nothing you can do about it because you are a botch [sic]. I will f**k you up.”

He admitted to making such threats during an interview with the FBI in early February, according to reports. He claims that he was drunk when he did so.

Stevens has written more than 40 articles for The Arab American News, mainly about Israel-related subjects.

In a statement to The Algemeiner, the paper’s publisher, Osama Siblani, wrote that “I really don’t know the person very well. I spoke to him couple of times he mentioned to me that he was ...now in Indiana and would like to submit articles for publication to The Arab American News for no charge. I accepted to review and publish what is acceptable to our publication at no charge. And that was the case.”

Siblani pointed out that “We have not published anything from Mr. Steven’s [sic] since sometimes [sic] in November last year.”

The FBI was initially made aware of Stevens directly after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack when he posted “Death to the Zionist” on Facebook. However, there is no indication the paper would have known about such comments at the time.

“As for the threat he made, of course, they are his and we vehemently disagree with them and totally and unequivocally condemn these threats against anyone,” Siblani noted.

He also made clear that “Mr. Steven’s is not our employee and he never was. He was simply one of many contributors. We won’t accept any further submission from him. We are totally shocked and disappointed that he resorted to these kind [sic] of threats even though reports indicate that he was intoxicated when he made them, still that is not an excuse.”

Stevens is being held without bond due to a prior criminal record and to ensure he shows up to his court date.

Since October 7, antisemitic incidents have surged in the U.S. by more than 330%, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Source: Al-Jadeed TV (Lebanon).

Dearborn, Michigan-based Osama Siblani, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Arab American News, discussed in a September 23, 2023 interview on Al-Jadeed TV (Lebanon) the positions of Arabs in America. He said that President Joe Biden has been the only president since Ronald Reagen who hasn't appointed a Lebanese-American cabinet member. Siblani said that the reason for this is that Biden is a Zionist. He concluded that the Arab-Americans and Lebanese-Americans will "overcome Joe Biden." In another portion of the interview, Siblani said that the U.S. is "starving the Lebanese people in order to subdue Hizbullah." [8].