At least 61 children were among the victims arrested as Israeli forces are rounding up Palestinians en masse inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory:
- ‘Terrorizing a Generation’: Israel Arresting Palestinian Children (Al-Jazeera)
- The War on Palestinians Continues—Now in the Form of Mass Arrests (The Nation)
The tipping point in public willingness to close its eyes to Israeli atrocities manifests itself in an EU member country’s Parliament, the EU’s foreign policy chief, among Afro-Americans, among American progressives, among young people all over the world, on the New York Times op-ed page, and even in Hollywood:
- Ireland Condemns ‘De Facto Annexation’ of Palestinian Land By Israel (The Guardian)
- Status Quo in Israel-Palestine Conflict No Longer an Option: EU’s Borrell (Daily Sabah)
- How George Floyd’s Filmed Murder Has Changed How Palestinians Are Viewed in the Mainstream (Gothamist)
- Generation Z Will Free Palestine (Aljazeera)
- ‘NYT’ Runs an Op-ed Justifying Violent Resistance, And Some Zionists Abandon P.R Duties (Mondoweiss)
- Hollywood Sentiment Shifts on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hollywood Reporter)
“The clerics issued a statement in which they said the constitutional watchdog did not ‘recognize the principle of a republic and the people’s vote,’ but rather ‘regards its own preferences and desires as superior to the people’s choice'”:
- Qom Clerics Join Criticism of ‘Stage-Managed’ Iran Presidential Election (Iran INternational)
A Muslim organization calls out the British media for minimizing Israeli efforts to seize the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah as “evictionsâ€, the Israeli raid on Al Aqsa Mosque and its aftermath as “clashesâ€, and Israeli bombardment of Gaza with euphemisms like “conflict†and “flare-upâ€:
The chairman of the Pakistani parliament’s committee on Kashmir accused India on Thursday of replicating the Israeli occupation model in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, following reports that accuse “New Delhi of issuing half-million new Kashmiri domicile certificates to non-locals”:
“This week President Hassan Rouhani ordered a ban on all mining of cryptocurrencies over the summer, in response to rolling electricity blackouts around the country. The ban is meant to apply to licensed as well as unlicensed operators”: