Month: December 2018

Safeidin Chapman is released after ten years in jail for playing paintball after the Supreme Court rules defining as “violent” acts that involve neither violent actions nor intention are unconstitutional: ‘Fuzzy’ Language in Law Leads to Reversals in Gun Cases (Washington Post) ‘Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability…

“At the Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem they fear the next administration will … [lead] to a more aggressive policy of settlement building in the West Bank, and a less peaceful stance towards Gaza” … Little Town of Bethlehem: Palestinians at Christmas Fear Move to the Right as Early Elections Loom in Israel (Independent) … and…

“For yet another year, Gaza’s Christian minority celebrates Christmas under siege, unable to join family in West Bank” : Next year in Bethlehem: Gaza Christmas Celebrated Despite Siege (Al-Jazeera) A call “for Muslims to stay away from Christmas celebrations drew a sharp rebuke from a vocal critic …, saying the Islamist party is suffering from…

For the second year Muslims will “relieve Christian volunteers at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church” to provides”a break for Manna Community Meal volunteers so they can prepare their family’s holiday meals”: Muslim Volunteers Serving Meals in Detroit on Christmas Eve (WSBT) When Islam turns statist: “Once ‘Islam’ is injected into public debates, how citizens interpret their…

Rashida Tlaib says, “Muslims were there at the beginning. … Some of our founding fathers knew more about Islam than some members of Congress now”:  Detroit Congresswoman to Use Jefferson’s Koran for Swearing-in Ceremony (Detroit Free Press) “Shaima Swileh will get on the earliest available flight out of Egypt, using a rare travel waiver granted…

“[I]n the wake of Hurricane Harvey … the town of Dickinson, Texas — near Houston — required people who wanted to get Hurricane Harvey relief funds to pledge to not boycott Israel”: Muslim Group Challenging Texas’ ‘No Boycott of Israel’ Law (KVUE) A businessman adds his voice “to a steady chorus of American citizens with…

“Human rights groups have recorded dozens of incidents of the Israeli military using U.S.-made weapons in unlawful ways to injure and kill Palestinian civilians”: Inside Sources Say the State Dept Refuses To Trace Whether Israel Is Using U.S. Military Aid Illegally (In These Times) “A number of key issues remain unresolved … and Antonio Guterres, UN…

The death of a premature infant due to the shooting of a pregnant settler is properly deplored, but not the murder of a disabled Palestinian, nor that the Israelis kill 16 times as many children as Palestinians: Two Shootings in Israel and Palestine, Equally Criminal (Haaretz) Arrested and released on charges “of insulting Supreme Leader…

“[T]he ‘false accusations and censorship against Hill represent yet another example of the “Palestine Exception” to free speech’ and that his firing by Temple University would violate the First Amendment”: Temple Warned that Firing Marc Lamont Hill Would Violate First Amendment (Electronic Intifada) A flimsy lawsuit: “religious discrimination (illegal settlements are by definition all-Jewish); failure…

“The Blocking Regulation would make it illegal for European companies to comply with U.S. sanctions against Iran” and in January “the EU unveils a new electronic payment system designed to move money in and out of Iran without American scrutiny” … EU Moves to Shield Companies that Trade with Iran from U.S. Sanctions (Marketplace) ……