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Ray Hanania

Ray Hanania is an award-winning former Chicago City Hall political reporter and columnist. He can be reached on his personal website at www.Hanania.com.

Twitter: @RayHanania 

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No justice for Americans killed by Israelis

Nine Americans who have been killed either by Israeli soldiers or radical Israeli settlers since 2022 have not received any form of justice. The victims — a journalist, a grandfather, women, several teenagers and an aid worker — were all American citizens.

May 22, 2026

Israel doubling down on its policy of violence

For Israel, the Gaza war is one of politics and propaganda. For Palestinians, it is one of genocide that challenges the world’s humanity.

April 26, 2026

US ‘Somali fraud’ scandal requires a determined response

The slow pace at which Democrats in Minnesota have addressed the enormous $9 billion so-called Somali fraud scandal — playing politics with it rather than seeing it as the crime that it is — has allowed the situation to worsen.

April 15, 2026

Fraud by Somali immigrants now a political football

It is very rare that an issue of fraud is so closely linked with one ethnic group, as it has been in Minnesota in a scandal involving the nation’s largest concentration of Somali immigrants.

April 06, 2026

War in Iran a problem for Republicans as midterms loom

While the focus for US President Donald Trump during the Iran war is naturally on avoiding human casualties, what he also needs to consider is the damaging impact it is having on the Republican Party.

March 08, 2026