Zainab Cheema's article in the Media Monitor Network exposes the Irvine 11 trial for what it really is: political scapegoating, rather than addressing a bona fide legal concern meriting the intervention of the county and state bodies of law.

 By Kifah Shah One day in high school my World History teacher announced in class that the lives of an entire city in Iraq did not amount to the value of one American soldier’s life. I’m not Iraqi, but the statement hurt me deeply and I walked out of class with tears. I went home that day, looked up articles about the newly-launched U.S. invasion of Iraq on Noam Chomsky’s website, wrote facts on blue post-it notes, and went to...

On October 16th, 2011, one of the Irvine 11 Osama Shabaik published an Opinion article in the Jerusalem Post. You can read the article below: Unprecedented silencing of dissent at UC Irvine By Osama Shabaik | Jerusalem Post I was the first student to protest Ambassador Michael Oren’s appearance at the University of California, Irvine in February, 2010. Minutes into the speech, I stood up and yelled, “Michael Oren, propagating murder is...