News and Analysis (6/13/20)

Since 9/11 thousands of US law enforcement officers “including agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – have been schooled” in Israeli tactics under far-right Israeli lobby sponsorship …

• How the US and Israel Exchange Tactics in Violence and Control (Al-Jazeera)

… but Israeli brutality against Palestinians is rarely brought to justice:

• ANALYSIS – A Tale of Two Racist Killings: From Minnesota to Palestine (Anadolu News)

Pompeo’s move “to unilaterally force the imposition of UN sanctions against Iran. not only creates many risks in terms of escalating the crisis with Iran, but it [marks] an unprecedented assault on the UN Security Council” …

• Why the World Should Fear Trump’s UN Moves Against Iran (National Interest / Yahoo News)

… meanwhile, an Iran sanctions case judge demands “a list of exculpatory material the government withheld before, during and after the trial and [the identities of the responsible] members of the government team”:

• Prosecutors Move to Drop Their Own Case After Evidence Issue. The Judge Wants Answers (NPR)

Muslim religious and political leaders show solidarity with African-American and to emphasize Islam’s rejection of all form of injustice and inequality at a demonstration in New Jersey on July 13:

• NJ Muslim Leaders Will Rally Against Police Brutality in Newark (Newark, NJ Patch)

Residents continue “taking to the streets to oppose the demolition of 18-century burial ground for homeless shelter”:

• Local Government Building Torched as Jaffa Protests over Muslim Cemetery Intensify (Haaretz)

Ordinary people, the Indian high court, and even a U.S. Senator are becoming impatient with India’s squeeze on Kashmir

• Files Are Waiting, So Are People: Where’s J&K’s Consumer Commission (Kashmir Observer)
• Why Modi Government is in the Dock for Contempt of Court in Kashmir 4G Internet Case (The Wire)
• US Senator Writes to State Dept: End Internet Restrictions in Kashmir, Allow Rohingya in Bangladesh to Have Sim Cards (The Kashmir Monitor)

“All of those flogged are people who have been arrested for peaceful activities or exercising their rights to freedom of speech”:

• Iran Lashes Five Peaceful Activists and Political Prisoners in 10 Days (Iran Human Rights Monitor)

A Palestinian real state mogul recalls 1948 eviction from the family home in Palestine by Zionist immigrants:

• Gigi Hadid’s Dad and His Childhood Home in Palestine (Middle East Monitor)

The self-described Islamophobe and critic of Black Lives Matter “denied being racist or bigoted in his views, and said his comments were taken out of context” yet he “declined an invitation to provide context”:

• Muslim Groups Call for MUN to Take Action Against ‘Islamaphobe’ Doctor and Systemic Racism (CBC)

Under financial stress and absent “imposing figures such as Soleimani and al-Muhandis to unify disparate factions, divisions have emerged in the Popular Mobilisation Forces … umbrella group of mainly Shia fighters”:

• Cash-strapped Iran Struggles to Maintain Sway over Iraq Militias (Al-Jazeera)