News and Analysis (6/29/20)

“Mayor Sam Liccardo said he expected any officer who made ‘racist, anti-Muslim or menacing comments’ to be fired”:

• 4 San Jose Police Officers Placed on Leave After Racist, Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts Found (KTLA)

“A number of Lebanese media outlets … [defied] a judge’s ruling that banned local and foreign media from featuring her statements after she criticised Iran-backed Hezbollah in an interview last week”:

• US Ambassador Appears on Lebanese TV, Denounces Court Media Ban (Aljazeera)

Interpol is refusing to prosecute the assassination on the grounds that “its guidelines for notices forbids it from ‘any intervention or activities of a political’ nature”:

• Iran Wants to Arrest President Trump, Interpol Rejects the Warrant rRquest (AP / Enterprise-Record)

“First, we have to fight when our loved ones are abducted and now we must flight for the simple right of internet access” — Mahrang Baloch, Baloch Students Action Committee:

• Beaten for Demanding Internet Access, Balochistan Students Draw Parallels with Kashmir (The Wire)

“The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show”:

• China Forces Birth Control on Uighurs to Suppress Population (AP)

Caught between India’s oppression, internal disputes within the peaceful resistance, and natural disasters, Jammu and Kashmir see a renewed militancy:

• Kashmir Muslims Fear Demographic Shift as Thousands Get Residency (Aljazeera)
• Kashmir: Slain Militant’s Mother Arrested Under UAPA for ‘Recruiting Militants’ (The Wire)
• Syed Ali Geelani: Kashmir Leader Quits Hurriyat Conference (BBC)
• J&K Govt Issues Order to Stock Up LPG in Kashmir as Highway Closures Spike Due to Monsoon (The Print)
• Is New Militancy Rearing Its Head in Kashmir? (Deccan Herald)

A generational shift recognizes the similarity of police treatment of minorities in America to colonization tactics coincides with rising international opposition to Israel’s annexation plans:

• It’s Time for a Moral Awakening on Israel’s Treatment of Palestine (Bangor Daily News)
• Annexation in Palestine and Netanyahu’s Calculus (Aljazeera)

Muslim youths compassionate rescue of an injured bull goes viral:

• Bull Rescued by Muslim Youths (Deccan Herald)

US sanctions against Iran hasten Tehran’s plan towards self-sufficiency:

• Iran Offers Projects, Supports for Domestic Auto Parts Producers (Xinhua)