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News and Analysis 12/5/22
Has Iran suspended the morality police? No one knows, but perhaps curtailed would be a more precise word: Confusion over Iran’s Religious Police as Women Drop Hijab (Washington Post) What Iran Has Planned for Its Morality Police (NPR) The games have “pierced the illusion that the Abraham Accords are anything more than agreements between an apartheid…
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News and Analysis 12/3/22
Israel’s apartheid is not identical to South Africa’s — it is worse … Palestine and South Africa: United by Their Differences (New Arab) … but Israel will not tolerate the truth: Following Smear Campaign, Israel Considers Barring UN Special Rapporteur Albanese from Entering Palestine, Israel (Palestine Chronicle) “Although some religions believe that human life begins…
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News and Analysis 12/1/22
While the Zionists suppress accurate reports of their apartheid and oppression … Israeli Court Orders Palestinian Who Filmed Soldier Threatening Activists Away From Home (Haaretz) … they publish libelous falsehood about Palestinian human rights organizations and activists: Palestine Rights Group Prosecutes Israel Lobby Organisation for Publishing Defamatory Articles (Middle East Monitor) Iranian police say security…
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Blasphemy Laws in Islam and in Muslim-majority Countries
[On September 24, 2022, the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy hosted a panel discussion on “Blasphemy Laws in Islam and in Muslim-majority Countries” moderated by Sahar Aziz. This our summary of highlights of the discussion and is not a transcript. The use of the first person is for convenience only. The event…
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Public Freedoms in the Islamic State
[On October 27 the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy and the Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding co-hosted a book launch for the English translation of Rached Ghannouchi’s book Public Freedoms in the Islamic State, co-moderated by Radwan Masmoudi and John Esposito. This is a summery of highlights of and is not intended to…
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News and Analysis 11/28/22
To date Israeli soldiers have killed 77 children, Palestinian fighters killed one: Invading Israeli Soldiers Kill Another Teen in Jenin (Israel-Palestine News) Invading Israeli Forces Kill 16-year-old Protester, Injure 32 in Nablus (Israel-Palestine News) “[T]he ‘Hindutva’ (Hindu supremacist) project in India is adding diversity and objectivity to its anti-minority hatred”: Why India Is Witnessing Spike…
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News and Analysis 11/26/22
As appalling as Israel’s violence against education, trade, and fishermen may be … Palestine: Children Flee as Israeli Forces Demolish West Bank Elementary School (Middle East Eye) Israel Imposes Closure on Jenin, Blocks Movement of Goods (Palestine Chronicle) Israel Navy Opens Fires at Palestine Fishermen (Middle East Memo) … things are about to get worse:…
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News and Analysis 11/24/22
Israeli demonstrators shout “I’m proud to be a racist” and “You should all be in camps,” and a former Israeli police chief says suspicion of Ethiopians is only “natural”: This Is How Black People Are Treated in Israel (Mint Press) Somali-American Muslims withdrew their request in deference to their neighbors, but still do not know…
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News and Analysis 11/21/22
Understanding Israel’s cruel response to a nonviolent protestor … A Palestinian ‘Lioness’ Sets Her Record Straight (972 Magazine) … can help explain why it won’t join “80 states, including the US, UK and France” opposing attacks on civilians … Israel Refuses to Sign Deal on Preventing Attacks on Residential Areas (Middle East Monitor) … and…
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News and Analysis 11/18/22
Neither schools nor the autistic are safe from Israel’s war on children: Israel’s Relentless War Against the Children of Palestine (Palestine Chronicle) Israel to Demolish Palestine School in Masafer Yatta (Middle East Monitor) Autistic Palestinian Teen’s Killing Casts Spotlight on Israel Tactics (BBC) A mother complains “Plainclothes forces shot my child. That is it” ……
