AJ+Skid Row is a sprawling tent city in the heart of downtown Los Angeles where you'll find thousands of people sleeping on the streets, diseases, no toilets, no food or water. AJ+'s Dena Takruri goes to ground zero of L.A.'s homelessness crisis to show the dire and shocking conditions residents live under.
Inside Skid Row: Americas homelessness capital | AJ+AJ+2018-03-13 | Skid Row is a sprawling tent city in the heart of downtown Los Angeles where you'll find thousands of people sleeping on the streets, diseases, no toilets, no food or water. AJ+'s Dena Takruri goes to ground zero of L.A.'s homelessness crisis to show the dire and shocking conditions residents live under.
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplus#Palestinian Medical Student Plays Music For Children In Rubble #gaza #israelAJ+2024-06-17 | Subscribe for more videos: ajplus.co/subscribe
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusWhat Modi’s Slim Victory Means For India’s MuslimsAJ+2024-06-08 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won reelection in India. And while the results were closer than many were expecting, a third Modi term is making many of the country’s Muslims fearful.
In the months leading up to the election, Muslim citizens faced hate speech from government officials, harassment at polling stations, police killings and the destruction of holy sites.
While opposition parties did score victories in regions with larger Muslim populations, it wasn’t enough to oust Modi from power. Over the last 10 years, anti-Muslim policies by the BJP government have left many members of the country’s largest religious minority even more marginalized. Muslim residents we spoke to say that the atmosphere of fear is still very present.
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusIt’s Bisan From Gaza, If Death Had A Smell, I’m Smelling It Right NowAJ+2024-06-05 | Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee Rafah, a designated “safe zone,” after the Israeli military launched a ground invasion on the area.
“Where Should People Go? The humanitarian zones are a lie,” says @wizard_bisan1 after dozens of Palestinians, many of whom women and children, were killed by Israeli attacks on a camp near Rafah. UNRWA called the aftermath of the attack “hell on Earth.” Some people were burned alive inside their tents, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Many Palestinians are stuck in Rafah and cannot afford to relocate. While others, such as homeowners and medical staff, refuse to leave.
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusThese Brothers Are Fighting Famine As Israel Starves Palestinians in GazaAJ+2024-05-27 | This is the story of how two Palestinian brothers living a world apart – Mahmoud in northern Gaza and Hani al-Madhoun in Virginia — are fighting against Israel’s forced starvation in northern Gaza.
When Israel separated Mahmoud from his family, stripping him down to his underwear alongside hundreds of other Palestinians, he never imagined seeing his loved ones again.
For Mahmoud, whose family roots run deep in Beit Lahia, surviving only strengthened his determination to serve his community. He set out to fight against Israel’s forced starvation, with the help of his brother Hani al-Madhoun. Together, they started a soup kitchen that’s now feeding hundreds of people.
It’s a daily risk that requires the collective effort of his entire family, volunteers on the ground and a global community.
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusHaitian migrants face rejection at the U.S. border and violent attacks in MexicoAJ+2024-05-24 | Subscribe for more videos: ajplus.co/subscribe
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusHaiti Is in Crisis. So Why Is The U.S. Deporting Haitian Migrants?AJ+2024-05-22 | The U.S. has had a vastly different approach to Haitian asylum seekers than it has had to Ukrainians and critics say it’s because they’re Black. As Haitian asylees try to find a way to build a life in the U.S. Haitian migrants face higher deportation rates and unique challenges. This is part two of ZIP Codes with Imaeyen’s two-part series on Haitian migrants.
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplus‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, Look At What U.S. Weapons Have Done’AJ+2024-05-21 | As Israel orders the evacuation of Rafah, many Palestinians are returning to their destroyed homes in Khan Younis after Israeli forces left the city on April 7. Bisan returns to Gaza’s second-largest city, which once had a population of around 400,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in Khan Younis were forced to flee in February when Israeli forces besieged the city for months. Now, as Israel bombs Rafah, many Palestinians are being forced to evacuate back to Khan Younis.
Bisan visits a mass grave site behind Nasser Hospital where almost 400 bodies have been uncovered. Despite the destruction, Bisan interviews Palestinians who are determined to rebuild the city.
AJ+ spoke to anti-war students who were inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall when police raided it.
Just two weeks before, Columbia students sparked a global student uprising against Israel’s genocide in Gaza when they set up a protest encampment on a campus lawn.
But when the university unequivocally refused to meet their central demand – for the school to cut financial ties with Israel – students took a page from history and occupied a campus building. In 1968, Columbia students who were protesting the U.S. war in Vietnam did the same thing.
In both instances, police were sent in to crush the occupations. But the anti-war movements lived on and the attempts to suppress student voices failed.
AJ+ reporters Angie Nassar and Asiya Ahmed take you inside Columbia as the school turned on its students.
Subscribe for more videos: ajplus.co/subscribe Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on X, formerly Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusHaitian Migrants Look For The American Dream In MexicoAJ+2024-05-19 | Haitian migrants in Mexico face unique challenges because of their race, and yet, they are fighting to carve out new lives for themselves in Latin America as their native nation teeters on the brink of collapse. This is part one of ZIP Codes with Imaeyen, a two-part series on Haitian migrants.
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusIt’s Bisan From Gaza, And This Is A Second NakbaAJ+2024-05-15 | For Palestinians, May 15 marks the anniversary of the “Nakba” — Arabic for “catastrophe” — when hundreds of thousands were forced from their homes. Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7 has been called the “second Nakba” by many Palestinians forced to flee their homes.
Bisan Owda spoke with three survivors from the first Nakba who shared firsthand accounts of their struggles in 1948 and today. They spoke about their life before the establishment of Israel and how they’ve now been displaced twice in their lifetimes.
Around 15,000 Palestinians were killed after the Nakba in 1948. And since October 7, Israel has killed over 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and 1.7 million people have been displaced — more than double the number of Palestinians displaced in 1948.
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusWhat This Jewish Professor At Columbia Wants You To KnowAJ+2024-05-14 | For over seven months, a dominant conversation in the U.S. news media has been about alleged and increased antisemitism on American campuses - culminating in the coverage around student encampments. The “Gaza solidarity encampment” at Columbia University, in particular, has received a lot of attention which sparked encampments across the country -- as well as university-backed police repression and violence. In this interview, AJ+ speaks to Dr. Bruce Robbins, a Jewish professor at Columbia University who supported students protesting Columbia University’s investments in companies and programs that uphold Israeli apartheid and the genocide in Gaza.
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ajplusenglish Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ajplusWhy Joe Biden Won’t Stop IsraelAJ+2024-04-22 | It’s been almost seven months since the start of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has claimed – at minimum – tens of thousands of Palestinian lives, including at least 15,000 children. There is mass starvation in the north, countless mass graves are being found every day from where the Israelis have withdrawn and a ground invasion of Rafah, which is under heavy bombardment, is still on the books. Despite all this and the growing domestic pressure on the U.S. government to change course, Joe Biden and his administration have shown no desire to choose a different course. Instead, unlike the media narrative that puts blame squarely on Netanyahu, this administration is showing what Joe Biden has shown throughout his career: complete deference to and support of the state of Israel.