Month: June 2022

The U.S. accuses Iran of raising resolved old issues and unrelated new ones, but Iran blames a weak Biden administration, unable to guarantee “economic benefits”: Fresh Round of Iran Nuclear Talks Ends with No Progress (Axios) Among the detainees in the wake of protests over the execution of a Palestinian teenager is a young man…

A “fund allocated to … ‘create a better future’ for Palestinians … has been largely utilised to register land for illegal settlements and … to further Palestinian dispossession”: Israeli Move to Register Land Adjacent to al-Aqsa Mosque Raises Fears of Takeover (Middle East Eye) The Committee to Protect Journalists called for the fact-checker’s immediate, unconditional…

Busy with its own murderous agenda … Israel Killed 4 More Palestinians over the Weekend (Israel-Palestine News) … the IDF couldn’t take time to protect a man from a stabbing, but made time to keep the victim from getting to the hospital before it was too late: Israeli Colonizer Fatally Stabs a Palestinian in the…

“Let’s be clear, states are trading their citizens’ First Amendment rights for what looks like unconditional support for a foreign government” … Boycotts Aren’t Protected Speech, Rules Appeals Court (Reason) … while in Scotland “the UK Lawyers for Israel told the Council that the City Councilors faced prosecution by anti-Terrorism legislation if they supported twinning”…

Will this Supreme Court ruling prevent the kind of anti-Muslim discrimination Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) faced in England? Supreme Court Issues Landmark School Choice Victory for Parents (Institute for Justice) The School Cat Stevens Built: How Conservative Politicians Opposed Funding for Muslim Schools in England (The Conversation) The U.S. government is buying the Iranian fuel…

Don’t take our word for it. Joe Biden himself says his capitulation to the Saudis it has nothing “to do with energy. … [I]t has to do with national security … for Israelis”: In the Middle East, Biden Walks in Trump’s Footsteps and Will Repeat His Failure (MSNBC) The parents of a woman having reached…

Experts say that the bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist was “the same [as] used by Israeli forces … designed and manufactured in the United States”: Al Jazeera Obtains Image of Bullet that Killed Its Journalist (Aljazeera) The Biden administration claimed diplomatic immunity for an IMF employee alleged to have tortured an American citizen in…

For years Israel has been training Western police on how to apply military occupation tactics to domestic policing; now they openly participating in a London patrol: Israelis Policing Streets of London: Palestinian Residents Demand Answer (Palestine Chronicle) “There are many documented cases in which the FBI’s army of 15,000 informants played the seminal role in…

Iran’s FM condemns “the silence of the international community and regional organization,” over Israeli missile strikes on sites south of the Syrian capital” … Iran Condemns Missile Attack on Damascus, Vows Support to Syria (Xinhau / MNA) … while Israel tries to blame Iran for its strike on an international airport in Syria: Israel Shut…

A U.N. commission finds Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and discrimination against Palestinians are the key root causes of the recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict in the region”: Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem, and Israel, Issues First Report (United Nations) Israel Wants ‘Complete Control’ of Palestinian Land:…