Month: November 2018

“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)…