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“Despite being citizens of the state of Israel, Palestinians required permits to leave their areas of residence, including to access medical care and jobs”: Israel’s Visa Refusal to Palestinian Harvard Fellow Sparks Calls for Boycott of Apartheid State (Informed Comment) The 1906 revolution married “traditional Islamic principles with modern concepts such as individual rights and…

The U.S. and Afghanistan trade accusations as to which has violated the Doha Accords after Biden administration takes out the “figurehead leader … of a decimated organization” … U.S. Kills al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Drone Strike in Kabul (Washington Post) … creating the possibility that a more effective successor “could do much more damage,…

In his power grab, Tunisia’s strong man has cut off most means of peaceful dissent: ‘There Is No Other Way’: Tunisian Judges on Hunger Strike for Democracy (Washington Post) Israeli police arrested a Palestinian construction worker after Facebook mistakenly translated his greeting “Good morning” in Arabic as “attack them” in Hebrew: Big Tech Builds AI…

“[T]he United States has failed to conduct its own investigations into previous killings of American citizens by Israeli soldiers”: ‘We Want to Know’: Shireen Abu Akleh’s Family Demands US Probe (Aljazeera) “The Supreme Court ruled the government needs a warrant to get your location data. But ICE is getting warrantless access anyway”: ICE Doesn’t Need…

Tunisian democracy “was dealt a crushing defeat today – not with the bang of a military coup, but with a whimper of apathy at the ballot box”: Democracy Falls Quietly in Tunisia, Yet It Reverberates Around Region (Christian Science Monitor) “Israel confiscated 35 per cent of it under the pretext of ‘public interest’. However, the…

Remember the Israeli “art students” who danced on a rooftop when planes crashed into the WTC? They are part of “the largest case of Israeli spying in the United States – that has been made public – since 1986”: An Enigma: Vast Israeli Spy Network Dismantled in US (Le Monde / Antiwar.com) The teen said…

“[T]he letter implies that the very act of collecting [attorney’s] fees could amount to a security offense, which carry a severe penalty in Israel”: Israel Sends Veiled Threat to Attorneys of Outlawed Palestinian NGOs (972 Magazine) The fact-checker used “the term ‘hatemongers’ for three Hindu monks who made inflammatory comments about Muslims, with at least…

“The two-state solution died a long time ago, and now so has the Palestinians’ strategic choice of relying on the West in their struggle for their national rights” … In Jerusalem, Biden Signs the Palestinians’ Death Certificate (Haaretz) … Biden and Lapin affirmed “that they will continue to work together to” defend Israeli apartheid from…

Notwithstanding France’s pseudo-secular refusal to tracking the religious identity of prisoners, a sociologist “has found that roughly half of the 69,000 people incarcerated today in France are Muslims of Arab descent“: Cannabis Prohibition in France Has Disproportionately Punished its Muslim Minority (The Conversation / RNS) “[T]he U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) … declared a state…