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Palestinian and Israeli residents of the West Bank say the announcement of Pompeo that the United States no longer view the settlement of the West Bank illegal does nothing to change their insecurities … On Israeli Settlements, U.S. Can’t ‘Rewrite International Law,’ Palestinians Say (NY Times) Palestinians Were Not Shocked by the Reversal of US…

Modi “seeks to provide citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis or Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Muslims are excluded from the list”: Modi Pushes to Grant Citizenship to Non-Muslim Immigrants (Bloomberg) “Opposition had told PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah that the Kashmir situation … and other issues need to be…

Social media and right-wing nationalist actions before and during the verdict, contradict government call for respect afterward: Post Ayodhya Verdict, Yogi Adityanath Meets Top Muslim Clerics, Assures Safety of Minority Community (India Today) After “he spoke about his conservative principles, his background, his experience[,] … he was faced with a barrage of questioning which was factored…

The complexity of Israeli occupation leaves a loophole that forces Jerusalem’s Palestinians to live in an undesirable district to avoid chosing between leaving their loved ones or losing their residency status … Jerusalem’s Love Neighbourhood‘: a Refuge for Star-Crossed Palestinians (The Guardian) … Dr. Muhathir says Israel is the only country in history to “set…

“India’s top court allows Hindus to build temple on disputed holy site while promising Muslims land elsewhere for mosque” … As Hindus Rejoice, Muslim Reaction Mixed over Ayodhya Verdict (Al-Jazeera) … while in Jammu and Kashmir, authorities have added a processions celebrating Prophet Mohammad’s birthday to their list of prohibited religious activities and postponed student…

Against all odds, Iran economy defies US economic pressure and survives sanctions: Iran Is Doing Just Fine (Foreign Affairs) Rouhani reiterates that Iran can’t unilaterally fulfill the 2015 agreement: Iran Moves Further from the Nuclear Deal, Alarming Russia, France (Reuters) Iran Begins Process of Fuelling Centrifuges at Fordow (Aljazeera) Can Europe evade sanctions to save…

It’s a chilling echo of Hindutva’s Ties to Europe’s Fascists in the 1930s: Why Europe’s Far Right Supports India on the Kashmir iIssue (Al-Jazeera) “Ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute, prominent Muslim organisations met to appeal for peace and harmony irrespective of the outcome of the judgment”: Ayodhya: Muslim Leaders…

Israel invested in facial recognition software used to watch Palestinian all over the West Bank … An Artificial Intelligence Company Backed by Microsoft is Helping Israel Surveil Palestinians (VOX.com) … “[i]t’s possible to scrape the biographical data of thousands of Palestinians from an exposed server”: Google Hosted an Insecure App for Searching Personal Data of…

President Trump praises a military dog that helped corner Al-Bhagdadi, but has, also, used (like a dog)” as an insult: By Praising Baghdadi-Cornering K-9, Trump Stirs Islam’s Complicated Dog History — and His Own (Roll Call) “The main problem is not with the test itself, but with the fact the test is implying that immigrants…

CAIR demands release of evidence after attorneys filed an affidavit by an witness “who was in the warehouse at the time of the shooting, that said Abdullah didn’t have a gun and was shot while he was on his back”: FBI’s Killing of Detroit Muslim Leader 10 Years Ago Haunts Communities (Detroit Free Press) Instead of…