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News and Analysis 1/19/23
It is illegal to deport a native for even an actual crime; Israel’s willingness to deport people for exposing human riots violations demonstrates the criminal nature of the state: Deportation Punishment for Activism Against Israel, Hammouri Says (Aljazeera) Judge says that when the only way to avoid Christian services is to return to your cell,…
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News and Analysis 1/16/23
If doctrine does cannot explain the Hamline controversy, racism might: National Muslim Civil Rights Group Voices Support for Former Hamline Professor (MPR News) National, Local Muslim Groups Differ on Hamline University Response to Art Dispute (Star Tribune) The Review: The Hamline Scandal Is an Onion With Many Layers (Chronicle of Higher Education) The Role of…
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News and Analysis 1/12/23
Human rights activists, Palestinian Alumni of Harvard Kennedy School, and Kenneth Roth himself speak out against HKS’s “support for Israeli state-sponsored violence and apartheid”: Harvard Faces Outcry for Rescinding Post to Ex-Head of Human Rights Watch over Criticism of Israel (Democracy Now) Harvard Kennedy School Palestinian Alumni Call for the Resignation of HKS Dean, Reinstating…
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News and Analysis 1/9/23
Homes, wells, young people, the PA, its own Arab citizens, and a PTA are among the targets of the apartheid state: Israel Orders Demolition of 5 Homes, 3 Wells in Masafer Yatta (MEMO) Two Youths Injured by Live Bullets During Confrontations with Israeli Soldiers in Jordan Valley Town (Wafa) Israel’s Hardline Govt Revokes Palestinian FM’s…
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News and Analysis 1/8/23
At the time Tunisia’s presidency “denied US pressure to dismiss” its ambassador to the UN, who had “prepared the draft resolution condemning ‘deal of the century’”: Kushner Reveals Washington Pressured Tunisia to Dismiss Pro-Palestine UN Ambassador (Palestine Chronicle) Amnesty International “said all of those facing death sentences had been denied the right to adequate defense…
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News and Analysis 1/5/23
Sweden’s “progressive” child protection service has taken Muslim children away from their parents on mere suspicion of potential physical abuse and turned them over to sexual abusers: Sweden: Experts, Families Say Sweden’s Social System Mistreats Muslim Children (Muslim News) MPAC declares its opposition to ” the ideology of compulsion in general” stems “not from a…
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News and Analysis 1/3/23
The increasingly flagrant nature of Israeli racism may have no immediate effect on U.S. government policy, but its effect on the American Jewish community is visible in an open battle over free speech: Will Netanyahu and His Extremist Ministers Undermine Unquestioned U.S. Support? (WRMEA) The Growing “Battle” Inside U.S. Jewish Institutions As Israel Embraces Racist…
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The Passing of Ali Memon
Former Minaret of Freedom Institute’s board member Ali Memon passed away yesterday, leaving behind his wife Razia and two sons Kamran and Nauman. Today, I joined them and other members of his family and many friends at his burial where we prayed for him and put the earth over his grave. Ali is remembered by…
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News and Analysis 12/30/22
Calling an an art history class display of a historical Muslim image of Muhammad (pbuh) Islamophobic “has privileged a most extreme and conservative Muslim point of view. . [and] flattened the rich history and diversity of Islamic thought”: Most of All I Am Offended as a Muslim (Chronicle of Higher Education) As Israeli oppression continues…
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News and Analysis 12/28/22
Blaming “Western countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia of fomenting the unrest,” and “arrests of dozens of dual nationals, … [aims] to shift blame away from the Iranian leadership”: Iran Reroutes Plane Carrying Soccer Star’s Wife, Blames UK over Unrest (Reuters) Initially in opposition to the Soviet Union, now of Russia and China, and always in…