News and Analysis (8/14/19)

“We had to stick our arms out through a small opening in the door. We soon realized that after our injections that we didn’t get our periods anymore”:

• Muslim Women ‘Sterilised’ in China Detention Camps, Say Former Detainees (Independent)

“Many of the BJP’s aspirations and policy proposals for Kashmir are imitations of extant Israeli practices in Palestine” including building “Israeli-style Hindu-only settlements in Kashmir”:

• What’s Happening in Kashmir Looks a Lot Like Israel’s Rule over Palestine (972)

Ashraf Ghani never followed through with his promises to Internally Displaced Persons “that if they were to vote for him, they would receive plots of land and support”:

• ‘Poor People’s Eid’: How Kabul IDPs Welcomed Muslim Celebration (Al-Jazeera)

Use of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism to prevent “a bike ride raising awareness of the plight of the Palestinian demonstrates the real threat to freedom of expression that it represents”:

• Freedom of Expression on Palestine Is Being Suppressed (The Guardian)

“[F]eminism in Islam… emphasizes the inclusion of Muslim women in the religious sphere, with no conflict with their call for their political rights or their active participation in public life”:

• ASU Prof Explores Feminism, Islam and Politics in New Book (ASU Now)

“[I]ncome tax is considered an oppression in classical Islamic law. If the only tax we had to pay was 2.5% of whatever we own for a year, most, apart from the ultra-rich would find they’d pay a lot less tax”:

• The Muslim Wealth Tax Zakat is the Best Blueprint for Making Western Societies Fairer Ç€ View (Euronews)

Beyond its bombings, demolitions and invasions of Palestinian schools, Israel creates a “Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare for any international scholar wishing to teach at a Palestinian university “:

• Israel Systematically Blocks International Scholars from Reaching Palestine (Truthout)

“Although the petition focused on the blindfolding, it also argued that the Palestinian shepherds were generally detained … for punitive purposes … [contravening the] purpose of and procedures for detaining Palestinians” …

• Israeli Army Forced to Admit Blindfolding Detained Palestinians Is Against Protocol (Haaretz)

… “While most of the village’s inhabitants were sitting down to a festive meal, a large police force arrived, entering the Masri family’s parking lot and shooting point blank at a person’s leg”:

• Police Disrupt Muslim Holiday Celebrations in East Jerusalem (Haaretz)

Only intervention by the Revolutionary Guard saved him from a death penalty after the ministry of Intelligence tortured him into a false confession:

• ‘Iran Tortured Me Into Confessing to Be an Israeli Spy’ (BBC)