Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

“Palestinian worshipers and international pilgrims were brutally beaten by Israeli police and armed forces as they attempted to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulchre”: Israeli Attacks on Easter Worshipers Reflect Efforts to Expand Control over Jerusalem (Mondoweiss) “Tunisia without Ennahda, without political Islam, without the left, or any other component, is a project for…

Palestinian Christians are as strongly opposed to Israeli religious repression as their Muslim brothers: Jerusalem Churches Refuse Israeli Restrictions on Annual Easter Vigil (Mondoweiss) “[V]eiled British Muslim women are set to be disenfranchised from casting their vote altogether”: Trans, Elderly, Disabled and Muslim People Be Worst Affected by New Voter ID Law, with Less than…

Fired for saying “using ‘Israel’ but never ‘Palestine’ or ‘war’ but not ‘siege and occupation’ are political choices … media make all the time without being flagged as biased”: Why the Media Can’t Tell the Truth on Israel & Palestine (The Bastani Factor / YouTube) “China began banning Muslims in Xinjiang from fasting during Ramadan…

The Israeli brutality at al-Aqsa shocks the world … In Order to Secure Entry of Jewish Fanatics into Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israeli Police Restrict Entry of Muslims (Wafa) Al-Aqsa Mosque Raid: How a Night of Worship Became a Night of Israeli Brutality (Middle East Eye) World Reaction to Israeli Attack at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque (Aljazeera) UN…

In defending Israeli apartheid, Germany discovers a new pretext to persecute Jews … Germany’s Anti-Palestinian Censorship Turns on Jews (972 Magazine) … unsurprising, since “Islamophobia … is born of a generalized anti-Semitism”: The “Islamization of France”: Actors and Composers of a Dangerous Tune (Club MediaPart / Jadaliyya) Westerners often neglect “whether counterterrorism measures would coerce…

Yes, it can get worse. An Israeli who called for extermination camps is now a member of the Knesset: Meet Avichai Buaron, the New Likud Lawmaker Who Advocated for ‘Extermination Camps’ for Israel’s Enemies (Mondoweiss) “American Muslim charities[‘] … accounts are mysteriously suspended, transactions are stalled” … Banking as an American Muslim? It’s a Horror…

“Politicians have no right to intimidate and bully artists and their fans with performance bans”: Roger Waters Slams Frankfurt After Concert Cancelled over Antisemitism, Plans to Sue (Haaretz) Not even cake? French football federation to referees who would let Muslims break their fast, “Let them eat nothing”: French Referees Ordered Not to Pause Games for…

Denying entry to “Palestinian Americans at all airports in Israel and into the occupied …. territories” is too much apartheid even for the US, … US State Department: Israel Has Not Yet Met Requirements for US Visa Waiver Programme (Middle East Eye) … and smearing a sympathetic professor who “gave the students space to express…

“[T]he Israeli opposition have little to offer and no way out so long as they refuse to look at those roots, at the violence upon which the state of Israel is founded”: Israeli Protest Movement Must Dismantle the Foundations of Society to Be Successful (Mondoweiss) “[S]everal court rulings in recent years underlined that a blanket…

“Video from the scene showed Muslim men and women praying, shouting at police officers as the officers removed worshipper”: Police Enter al-Aqsa, Remove Palestinians Barricaded in Mosque (Jerusalem Post) The U.S. “response to a drone attack earlier in the week that killed an American contractor in Syria,” Iran charges, “hit civilian targets”: Iran, Syria Condemn…