Author: Abdullah Khan
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News and Analysis 4/25/21
As growing incitement from “far-right settlers advocating for the killing of Arabs” as well as “Palestinian anger over police blocking off access to the Al-Aqsa mosque” resulted in severe clashes between Palestinian protestors and Israeli security forces … Israeli Police Clash With Palestinian Protesters in Jerusalem (Al-Jazeera) … the U.N. envoy to the region, Tor…
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News and Analysis 4/23/21
On Thursday night, far right Israelis marched through the streets of Jerusalem, as cries of “Death to Arabs, death to terrorists” eventually turned into physical violence, wounding more than “105 Palestinians”: Violent Clashes in Jerusalem After Israeli Far-Right March (Al-Jazeera) “Djabelkhir said he makes the distinction between history and myth in religious writing, but his…
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News and Analysis 4/21/21
“[T]he application of law, its reformulation, its suspension, are all malleable instruments in the Indian colonial epistemic and political arsenal” that “is built to criminalise Kashmiri resistance and normalise their oppression”: The Metaphysics of India’s Colonial Project in Kashmir (TRT World) While the United States wishes to reenter the deal, Israeli officials would rather witness…
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News and Analysis 4/20/21
Virologist Shahid Jameel credits the eleventh century Muslim physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna) with propagating the “the idea that diseases are spread by microorganisms,” and now Muslim leaders from Mecca to Lucknow are propagating the fact that receiving Covid-19 vaccine during Ramadan does not invalidate the fast: Muslim Clergy Must Spread the Message Loud — Covid…
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News and Analysis 4/17/21
Despite checkpoints, restrictions, and Israeli police action sabotage to Al-Aqsa mosque loudspeakers, 70,000 Palestinians managed to make it to the first Friday services in Ramadan: Israel Restricts Entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque For Palestinians on First Friday of Ramadan (Middle East Eye) Mansour al-Shahatit’s “deplorable state after being freed … suffering from memory loss as a…
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News and Analysis 4/15/21
The Vienna talks aimed at allowing the US to rejoin the nuclear deal have “fallen into disarray” in the aftermath of an attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility: Iran’s Supreme Leader: Vienna Offers ‘Not Worth Looking At’ (AP News) Europe buys into and the Taliban reject Biden’s plan for a delayed unconditional troop withdrawal: NATO…
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News and Analysis 4/13/21
Israel’s sabotage of Iran threatens regional peace and U.S. diplomacy: EXPLAINER: Iran Atomic Sites Targeted by Diplomacy, Sabotage (AP News) Opinion: Israel’s Relentless Attacks on Iran May Endanger Biden’s Diplomacy (Washington Post) Israel Made ‘Very Bad Gamble’ at Nuclear Plant: Iran (AFP/ Times of India) US Distances Itself from Alleged Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Site…
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News and Analysis 4/11/21
The arrest of choreographer Ata Khattab the depth of Israeli fear of Palestinian culture: Threatened by Cultural Defiance, Israel Throws Dancer in Prison (Electronic Intifada) “Attacks against Muslims are attacks against the Republic” — Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin, “the main sponsor of legislation passing through parliament which the government says is designed to tackle what…
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News and Analysis 4/9/21
Amidst almost daily human rights violations … Israeli Settlers Take Control of Palestinian Property and Land in East Jerusalem (Middle East Eye) … Israel refuses to recognize the authority of the tribunal, which plans to investigate “war crimes in the Palestinian territories”: Israel to Tell ICC It Does Not Recognise Court’s Authority (WHBL) “What we’re…
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News and Analysis 4/6/2021
On Monday, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian couple, killing the man and wounding his wife with bullets. “They began shooting at us, my husband fell into my lap and was killed”: Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian, Wound Wife After Alleged Attack (Haaretz) After indirect talks at Vienna, the U.S and Iran have agreed to…