Author: ImadadDean

“The Palestinian people and leadership will not be intimidated and will not succumb to coercion. The rights of the Palestinian people are not for sale. There is no glory in constantly bullying and punishing a people under occupation” – Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinians Blast Trump’s Aid Cut as Political Blackmail (WA Today) “The government shouldn’t be allowed to…

Tunisia’s Ennahda Party achieves what the nation’s secularists never did: they have elected a woman as mayor of the capital city: Meet Souad Abderrahim, the First Female Mayor of Tunisia’s Capital in 160 Years (Washington Post) As Israel releases Ahed Tamimi from prison it sentences her brother and to make sure no videos of its…

With the transfer of the Iran portfolio to Brian Hook (“John Bolton’s man in the State Department”), the “Iran Action Group” might as well be renamed the “Iran Coup Squad,” but it reflects administration doubts about prospects of its Iran policy:  Trump’s Secret Cabal on Iran at the State Department (Al-Jazeera) “During Eid al-Adha , Muslims…

“[T]he rites of Hajj are believed to ultimately trace the footsteps of the prophets Ibrahim and Ismail, or Abraham and Ishmael as they are named in the Bible”: The Hajj Pilgrimage and Its Significance in Islam (VoA) Does attending a session with the words “Israeli aggression” in the title at a time when Israelis killed…

Even Israel’s post office practices apartheid, … Eight years’ Worth of Undelivered Letters and Packages Are Finally Arriving Through Palestinian Letterboxes After Being Held Up by Israel on Security Grounds (Independent) … and Palestinians can’t use the airport as even Palestinian-Americans “have been sent back to the U.S. upon arrival at Ben Gurion. And for Gaza’s…

“The social media, email and telephone threats made against … Judge Sarah Backus were deemed so serious that court officials felt compelled to reiterate her responsibility to decide on the law, not public opinion based on incomplete information”: Judge in N.M. Compound Case Threatened After Ordering Release of Muslim Family (USA Today) Reports of Iraqi…

As Netanyahu boasts that Israels new law will prevent Palestinian families from reuniting: Israel’s Family Separation Law (972) His staff insists he did not know what was written on the sign handed him comparing Trump’s proposed wall with Israel’s and insists the senator from New Jersey still supports Israeli apartheid: Cory Booker Claims He Didn’t…

A “group called Veterans Against Islamic Filth, with 2,700 members, violated a specific Facebook rule against referring to a group of people as ‘filth.’ Yet the group remained up until Buzzfeed contacted Facebook for comment on the story”: Anti-Muslim Facebook is Even Worse Than We Thought (Splinter) “Indian movies which talk of Islam and Muslims,…

Jared Kushner’s bid to destroy UNRWA “is part of a broader push by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress to strip these Palestinians of their refugee status in the region and take their issue off the table in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians”: Trump and Allies Seek End to Refugee Status for…

Although “Trump’s surprise announcement that he is willing to talk to Mr. Rouhani“  fits his impulsive profile, it also fits into a plan Bolton formulated last year at the behest of Steve Bannon intended to put Iran in to an impossible position … Talking to Rouhani: Is Trump Shooting from the Hip or Following a…