News and Analysis 1/23/22

“Ten civilians, including seven children, were killed in the attack, which the Pentagon initially touted as a successful strike against ISIS car bomb. The driver was actually a humanitarian worker who was transporting jugs of water”:

• CAIR Says Any Pentagon Officials Who Approved ‘Reckless War Crime’ in Kabul Should Resign (CAIR)

After the Supreme Court agreed to hear cases regarding the groups’ “open call of genocide of Indian Muslims” two of them have responded by demanding the victims “be arrested for … hate speeches instead”:

• Arrest Muslim Leaders For Hate Speech: Right Wing Groups To Supreme Court (NDTV)

“[T]he last bastion of free space in the Valley is gone”— Nazir Masoodi, New Delhi Television:

• Kashmir Press Club Closure Is the Latest Blow to Media Freedom in the Conflict-torn Region, Journalists Say (Washington Post)

“Iran is expected to regain its vote in the UN General Assembly” despite impediments caused by U.S. sanctions:

• S Korea Pays Iran’s Delinquent $18m UN Dues with Frozen Funds (Aljazeera)

Criticized for language insulting settlers, Golan asks, ““Is the problem the expression that I used or is the problem those same people who go up to Burqa, smash graves, damage property and assault innocent Palestinians?”:

• Former Israeli General Turned Lawmaker Speaks Out on Settler Violence Against Palestinians (PBS)

The photographers wants his “photographic archive to not just inform us about the violations but function as a collective counter-memory against the falsified political history”:

• Enforced Disappearances in Kashmir Through a Young Photographer’s Lens (The Wire)

Having failed to convince the diplomatic community that six human rights organizations are just fronts for terrorists, Israel produces “secret” Shin Bet document that contains unsubstantiated claims and no actual evidence …

• Israel’s New Secret Document Still Fails to Tie Palestinian NGOs to ‘Terrorism’ (972)
• Palestinians Call for Probe into Israeli Massacres in Tantura (Aljazeera)

… while what had been an controversy among historians as to whether or not Israelis massacred villagers at Tantura has become a visceral sandal as combat soldiers from the IDF brigade responsible break their seven decade silence:

• There’s a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess (Israel-Palestine News)

The latest man arrested for harassing Muslim women on Clubhouse is an 18-year old who reportedly created the group:

• Lucknow Man Summoned over Clubhouse Group that Targeted Muslim Women, Joining Probe Today: Delhi Police (Indian Express)

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