Author: ImadadDean
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Demolishing Democracy: How Annexationism Is Bulldozing Israeli Institutions
[On January 27, 2020, just before the release of the Kushner Plan, J Street’s Debra Shushan interviewed former IDF (Isrtaeli Defense Forces) commander Yehuda Shaul, founder of the Breaking the Silence movement aimed at facilitating IDF veteran’s confronting and speaking about the true nature of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This heavily condensed transcript of…
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News and Analysis (1/17/20)
“While no U.S. service members were killed in the Jan. 8 Iranian attack on Al Asad Air base, several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed” … Military Says 11 Troops Were Injured in Iran Strike, Contradicting Trump (Daily Beast) … the “Trump administration abruptly canceled four classified Iran…
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News and Analysis (1/3/20)
Trump assassinates a senior military leader of a state with which we are not at war, offering no evidence in support of the claimed justification that “the Iranian general was ‘plotting to kill’ US citizens” … Trump Claims Qassem Soleimani Was ‘Plotting to Kill’ Americans, and Urges US Citizens to Leave Iraq After Killing of…
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Impeachment: Republicans Hate to See Trump Treated Like an African, Latino, or Muslim American
Democrats say that Republicans focus on the process of the Trump impeachment because they are unable to defend him on the merits. Maybe. But neither major party seems to care about the fact that the procedural weaknesses of the impeachment process are the same challenges faced by blacks, Latinos, and Muslims every day by the…
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News and Analysis (12/17/19)
Students abandoned their protests to return to campus when locals joining in turned violent, but Delhi police attacked them on the university campus, beating students and damaging mosques: “Thrash the Circumcised,†Delhi Cops Shouted Amidst Rampage Against Us Students (Quartz) According to Al Mayadeen TV, the draft keeps “existing Israeli settlements, as well as isolated…
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News and Analysis (9/30/19)
Serb separatist hate speech includes mocking the SDA’s embrace of liberal reforms and sparks a rise in hate crimes: ‘Large Increase in Anti-Bosnian, Anti-Muslim Bigotry’: Report (Al-Jazeera) “A 60-year old woman and 13-year old boy were killed and three wounded in shelling over the Line of Control (LOC), near the informal border with India, on…
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News and Analysis (9/27/19)
“India is being governed today by Hindu ethno-nationalists who seem to regard the country’s minorities—Muslims, Christians and other non-Hindus—as inferior, anti-national, and not deserving of protection” … Gandhi’s Legacy Was Betrayed By Modi—But It Can Still Be Reclaimed by Kashmiri Peaceful Resistance (Newsweek) … “I am disappointed by the international community. If eight million Europeans,…
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News and Analysis (9/24/19)
“Kashmiris’ rights were at the forefront … [and] intricately linked to the fear many Muslims continue to have under the current US administration, given the leaders of both countries are known for their anti-Muslim stances”: Kashmir in Focus at Muslim Day Parade in New York (Al-Jazeera) “Researchers found that, of 549 collected cases, 26% were…
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News and Analysis (9/20/19)
It would be wrong to go to war without certainty as to who launched the attack, a treaty obligation to interfere, well-defined goals and plans, a national interest, and, above all, a declaration of war by the U.S. Congress … Seven Questions that Need Answers Before Any Attack on Iran (The Atlantic) … “Holding Iran…
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News and Analysis (9/17/19)
Blaming Iran for a Houthi attack is “a pretext … to make war on Iran,” that ignores that MbS attacked Yemen “because Saudi Arabia had been used to having major influence on Yemen through dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh” … Pompeo Manipulatively Blames Iran as Saudi Arabia Loses 58% of Oil Production to Houthi Attack (Juan…
