News and Analysis (2/11/18)

Is Israel’s increased violence aimed at provoking a regional war that could form a pretext for U.N. intervention to demand Hezbollah abandon its missiles?

• Israeli Air Strikes Against Syria ‘Biggest Since 1982’ (BBC)
• Israeli Jet Shot Down After Bombing Iranian Site in Syria (Reuters)

“With Islamophobia at historic levels, a Muslim social services provider finds that women who flee to shelters often confront new abuses from non-Muslim survivors and staff members”:

• Sheltering Muslim Domestic Violence Survivors (American Prospect)

“[I]t was supposed to be a multi-faith prayer room. However, … the Pyeongchang Olympics Gangwon Citizens’ Islam Countermeasure Association, launched its protests specifically against Muslims who were coming for the Winter Olympics”:

• No Prayer Room for Visitors at 2018 Winter Olympics (Al-Jazeera)

“The connection between Middle Eastern and Mexican food goes all the way back to the Moors” but it took a Palestinian and a Mexican to make a culinary exploration of “the political potential between [U.S.] Muslims and Mexicans:

• Building A Latino-Muslim Coalition With #TacoTrucksAtEveryMosque (NPR)

Iranian women protesting legal imposition of the hijab and American Muslim women opposing the stigma against headscarves” alike are demanding recognition of “an individual’s dignity and freedom of choice”:

• A Veiled Truth in Iran and the US (Christian Science Monitor)

The overwhelming majority … [of mass casualty attack in the U.S.] was conducted by individuals who were motivated by white supremacist or anti-government ideological beliefs or non-ideological grievances” …

• US Long-term Surveillance of Sunni Muslim Immigrants Is an Ineffective Plan (The Hill)

… The Muslim victims of one such crime engaged in “philanthropy [that ranged f]rom helping the homeless to supporting scholarship and Syrian refugees”:

• Raleigh Community Honors Muslim-American Students Killed 3 Years Ago (abc11)

“The current Indian and Israeli governments share a common political vision of repression, exclusion and a blatant disregard of human rights. The real support for Palestine lies with the Indian people, … taking the form of … BDS initiatives”:

• Modi Visits Ramallah, Backs Independent Palestine State (Al-Jazeera)

Newsy’s Chance Seales reports that  ‘Jihad’ Makes Us Think ‘Terrorism,’ But That’s A Huge Inaccuracy:

• Interview with Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad (The Why)

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