News and Analysis 8/11/21

“[P]rominent civil rights, Jewish, and faith-based organizations and leaders today strongly denounced flagrant anti-Muslim animus targeting Dilawar Syed and his historic nomination for deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)”:

• Flagrant Anti-Muslim Bias Weaponized Against SBA Nominee (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)

After decades of lying through omission,  a more honest American discussion of Israel’s nuclear arsenal “could breathe new life into the distant dream of a nuclear-free Middle East”:

• America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nukes (NY Times)

“Under the smokescreen of electoral redistricting, New Delhi is using gerrymandering to politically neuter the region’s Muslim majority”:

• Modi Is Trying to Engineer a Hindu Majority in Kashmir (Foreign Policy)

Elected officials, Republicans and Democrats alike, who have taken up Israel’s directive to punish Ben and Jerry’s are “exhibiting their pro-Israel bona fides” at the expense of all of our First Amendment rights:

• At Risk in Israel’s Backlash Against Ben and Jerry’s? The Right to Protest (The Nation)

It is becoming impossible for American Jews to “reconcile their liberal values with support for a state accused of committing crimes against humanity” by imposing an apartheid regime on Palestine …

• ‘We May Lose US’ if American Jews Continue Backing BDS, Says Israel’s Diaspora Minister (Middle East Eye)

… is that the explanation for Israel’s unusual decision to grant building permits to some Palestinian West Bank residents?

• Israel Approves 1,000 Palestinian Homes in W. Bank Area C (Jerusalem Post)

Shaikh Abdul Aziz was killed by Indian forces on this day while leading mammoth march to Azad Kashmir in 2008 against the economic blockade of the Kashmir valley by “the extremist Hindus of Jammu”:

• Hurriyat AJK Leaders Pay Homage to Sheikh Abdul Aziz (Kashmir Media Service)

“Researchers attribute the high suicide attempt rate to two factors: religious discrimination and community stigma — both of which, they say, prevent Muslim American communities from seeking mental health services”:

• American Muslims Are 2 Times More Likely to Have Attempted Suicide than Other Groups (NPR)

A Palestinian woman was hospitalized after being shot in her “lower body” near the northern West Bank city of Nablus:

• Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Palestinian Woman in West Bank (Palestine Chronicle)

Afghan officials say 3 more provincial capitals fall to Taliban amid US withdrawal as the “insurgents now hold 9 out of 34 provincial capitals”:

• Afghan Officials: 3 More Provincial Capitals Fall to Taliban (Associated Press)

Abdullah Khan