“137 states bilaterally recognize Palestine.” The “City Council’s leadership team … decided to remove [the Councilman who refuses to recognize this fact] from the immigration committee”:
- A Jewish Councilman Who Said ‘Palestine Does Not Exist’ Loses Seat on Immigration Committee (NY Times)
“The plea bargain also requires Martinez-Torres to answer any questions from the victim’s family during the next year … [in the hope of helping] settle … whether the attack was motivated by anti-Muslim hate”:
- Man sentenced to life in prison for murder of Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen (Religion News Service)
Accusations that young children have thrown stones notwithstanding, B’Tselem says that Israeli authorities holding them alone without notifying parents “speaks volumes as to the moral blindness afflicting them” …
- Israeli Troops Detained a 9-year-old Palestinian at School. It’s ‘Becoming Normal’, Locals Say (CNN)
… “There are days that I couldn’t sleep. In particular when the municipality demolished houses. How can … we who suffered from discrimination over centuries … discriminate other people. No, it’s impossible”:
“Israeli soldiers invaded … various parts of the occupied West Bank, searched and ransacked homes and workshops, and abducted eleven Palestinians, in addition to shooting one during ensuing protests”:
- Israeli Army Abducts Eleven Palestinians, Injures One, in West Bank (International Middle East Media Center)
“That a small group managed to force the women out of the main campus is a sad commentary on the administration. … [S]tudents of the women’s college … are an equal part of the AMU … [and have] an equal right over it”:
“The total obliteration of Muslim representation from the largest state in” India shows that the “fight to save secular principles and practices … is a fight that secular Hindus cannot win on their own”:
- The Missing Muslim Vote and Voice in 2019 (The Wire)
“Javad Zarif tweeted late Monday that America’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy on Iran” that prevents “Iran from acquiring badly needed … relief helicopters … ‘isn’t just economic warfare; it’s economic TERRORISM’”:
- Iran Says US Sanctions Impede Flood Rescue Operations (Washington Post)
With no clear grounds for the charge, Britain, France and Germany are accusing Iranian development of missile technology for space and non-nuclear purposes of being “inconsistent with a UN resolution”:
“We found a lot of solidarity from our friends at groups like Jewish Voices for Peace and If Not Now and others who have said that people are actually diluting real anti-Semitism by equating all criticism of Israel with” it:
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