News and Analysis (11/25/18)

“The blacklist has become especially frightening, some activists said, because it’s being used by law enforcement in Israel and the United States”:

• “It’s Killing the Student Movement”: Canary Mission’s Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll (The Intercept)

“In a historic move, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) may filibuster against massive aid package to Israel. AIPAC issues action alert to pressure Paul, predicts Congress will pass the aid package – largest in US history”:

• In Historic Move, Sen. Rand Paul Places Hold on $38 Billion to Israel (If Americans Knew)

“Kosovo authorities claim no citizen has joined a fundamentalist group over the past two years, a development partly attributed to the empowering of women through the creation of female Islamic teachers”:

• Muslim Preachers Help Kosovo Women Learn, Win Their Rights (Virgin Islands Daily News)

• One of the First Two Muslim Women in US Congress Is Already Battling a Fake News Campaign (Quartz)

… while an analyst’s review of their respective promises over the decades concludes that “Tehran has repeatedly delivered on its promises, while Washington has fallen short and backed Riyadh’s disastrous regional adventures”:

• Iran, Saudi Arabia and a History of American Aggression (Middle East Eye)

“Israel’s refusal to allow the return of a ‘significant number’ of refugees, as called for by the United Nations Conciliation Commission – created under Resolution 194 – compelled the world body to adopt the humanitarian-aid option”:

• When Saudi Arabia Imported Teachers from Palestine (Haaretz)

“By visiting Tunisia, the group said Bin Salman aims to ‘get out of his isolation’ following the widespread criticism he has faced on charges of involvement in the assassination of Khashoggi”:

• Tunisia Lawyers, Bloggers Sue over Bin Salman Visit b/c Khashoggi Murder (Middle East Monitor)

“[E]ven if one concedes that at some point … [Xinjiang] had been under Chinese control, a millennium later the people living there did not feel Chinese, look Chinese, speak Chinese, share Chinese values and myths and stories, or, by and large, want be part of China. Thus began a series of rebellions”:

• The Uighurs and China’s Long History of Trouble with Islam (NY Review of Books)

“Israeli forces detained Ghaith in a dawn raid on his home in Silwan neighbourhood in East Jerusalem on Sunday. The Israeli military did not provide any details about the reason for the governor’s detention”:

• Palestine Slams Israel’s Arrest of Jerusalem Governor (Middle East Monitor)

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