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Since 9/11 thousands of US law enforcement officers “including agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – have been schooled” in Israeli tactics under far-right Israeli lobby sponsorship … How the US and Israel Exchange Tactics in Violence and Control (Al-Jazeera) … but Israeli brutality against Palestinians is rarely brought to justice:…

The International Refugee Assistance Project plans to appeal, their attorney saying that the District Court’s three judge “panel definitely got the legal issues wrong” : Court Orders Dismissal of Trump Muslim Travel Ban Challenges (WWBT) Only JCPOA participants may call for a snap back of UN sanctions, and after Trump’s withdrawal, the U.S. is no longer…

Although US denied on Tuesday any prisoner swap with Iran, the release of White, a US Navy veteran, came “a day after an Iranian scientist held by the American authorities was returned to Iran”: Iran Frees Navy Veteran Held for Two Years (NY Times) After a Muslim group endorsed Biden, a Muslim grad student in…

Boston Muslims know what it is like to fight for equality, calling all minorities to rally around all sorts of racism: George Floyd Is Our Fight, Too: A Muslim Perspective (Morocco World News) When they retrieved their watermelons that fell into a dry open drain, the government charged them with “malignant act likely to spread…

European and US policymakers find Trump’s Iran policies counterproductive; keeping inside the Non-Proliferation Treaty would provide better safeguards on Iran’s nuclear program: France, UK, Germany ‘Regret’ US End to Three Iran Nuclear Waivers (Al-Jazeera) Who Are The Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran? (Pressenza International) A vessel was displayed “at a ceremony to introduce…

“The appointment is just the latest in a series of Trump administration moves that are raising concerns it is undermining USAID’s ability to fulfill its mission”: New USAID Religious-freedom Adviser Has History of Anti-Islam Comments (Washington Post) Raffia Arashad, who was appointed a Deputy District Judge on the Midlands Circuit last week cites the “Imposter…

“The Covid-19 pandemic has beautifully dispelled the taboo, the myth, the common practice ⁠— that women do not and cannot pray with men”: When Lockdown Eid Broke a Long-held Taboo in Muslim Homes (Indian Express) “State enforced disruptions to internet access are problematic at all times and in the midst of a global pandemic, such…

Pakistan’s president draws a parallel between Kashmir and the Palestinian struggle, saying: “the Israeli state is doing to the Palestinians what Nazis did in the 1930s and India has taken a leaf from the Israeli playbook”: ‘Kashmiris, Palestinians Need Unity of Purpose’ (Anadolu Agency) The Vatican warns of consequences of annexation … Holy See Reaffirms…

The virtual meeting joint statement of the four countries: they support the initiative of the UN Secretary-General of the ceasefire and call for a ceasefire throughout Afghanistan: Pakistan, China, Russia and Iran Join Hands for Afghan Truce (Express-Tribune) A week after he protested the “growing tide of Islamophobia in India, … his house was raided…

“The Nakba doesn’t represent a historical event but a continuing process that began in the 1880s …” depicting the theft of Palestinian land as an ongoing but reversible process: Nakba Day: For Palestinians, Not Just an Historical Event (Al-Jazeera) “If the United States, just like pirates, intends to create insecurity on international waterways, it would…