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“A Jordanian source, with an inside knowledge of his country’s diplomatic affairs, told MEE that the Saudi decision is part of a bilateral agreement with Israel to put an end to the ‘Palestinian identity and the right of return for refugees”: Saudi Arabia Bars Nearly 3 million Palestinians from Hajj and Umrah (Middle East Eye)…

“During her tearful primary election victory speech in August, with her immigrant mother by her side,” Rashida Tlaib, “the daughter of Palestinian immigrants … said relatives in the West Bank were watching her success. ‘It just shows how incredibly wonderful our country can be’”: Ex-Somali Refugee, One Other Become First Muslim Women in US Congress…

“Where anti-BDS legislation is almost certainly unconstitutional is in the United States (see, for example, this 2016 article in the Harvard Law Review). That’s where the real war for justice in Israel-Palestine is being waged”: On Boycotts, Academic Freedom, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel-Palestine (The Nation) Germany’s foreign minister, has “proposed that Europe…

Disturbing leaks emerge in the Khashoggi murder including allegations that the reporter was strangled and dismembered, … Prosecutor Says Khashoggi Was Strangled and Dismembered, but Fate of Body Still a Mystery (Washington Post) and his body dissolved in acid on the consulate grounds, … Trump and the Saudis Keep Fumbling After Khashoggi’s Killing (Washington Post)…

American Muslims are united in condemning the terrorist murder of Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue and in offering support … Pittsburgh Muslim Community Offers Protection for Jewish Services After Mass Shooting (The Hill) Within Hours, Muslim Groups Raise Thousands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Victims (Haaretz) ‘We’ll Be There’: Muslim Community Raises $70,000 for Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack…

“Mueller’s investigators examined a series of [pre-inauguration] meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn … [which smack] of covert action planning, which is … uniquely the province of the sitting president”: Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran (Daily Beast)…

“To select just a certain period that could be one or two centuries out of 3,000 years and to call the site a Jewish site is really a joke” — Nazmi Jubeh, a historian at Bir Zeit University who “would like to see the site but it is off limits to Palestinian archaeologists”: New Israeli…

“Khashoggi’s brave journalism was inspired in great part by Islam, and indicting it on account of the vile actions of the Saudi regime,” is unjust both “to the memory of a courageous journalist … and … to a global religion that stands apart from the vile actions of … any single state or government”: The…

What is Saudi Arabia afraid of … The Geopolitics of the Khashoggi Murder (grahamfuller.com) … and what are so many “Washington think tankers and pundits, not to mention senior members of the Trump administration” afraid of? Why Won’t Trump Condemn the Saudis? (Hint: It’s Israel. Also, Iran) (The Intercept) Guess who else engages in targeted…

To understand certain journalists and politicians, you must remember that “Israel is the prism through which they see the world. Anything that happens anywhere in the world, particularly in the Arab and Muslim world, they twist and turn to a narrative that best benefits their favourite garrison state”: An American and an Arab Journalist Walk…