News and Analysis 5/13/22

“An Al Jazeera livestream captured the moment mourners nearly dropped Abu Akleh’s coffin as Israeli forces beat them”:

• Shireen Abu Akleh: Israeli Forces Assault Mourners Carrying Casket Ahead of Burial (Middle East Eye)

ICE “has gone well beyond its immigration enforcement mandate, instead evolving into something of a broader domestic surveillance agency”:

• Immigration Officials Created Network that Can Spy on Majority of Americans, Report Says (LA Times)

“[A]n all-too-familiar aspect of flying while Muslim”:

• Imam Abdirahman Aden Kariye Was Buckled into His Airplane Seat Sunday Ready to Fly Home. then TSA Agents Ordered Him Off, Causing Him to Miss Eid at His Bloomington Mosque (Sahan Journal)

The chemistry professor’s dismissal brings to thirteen the number terminated “without an inquiry in the interest of the State’s security”:

• JK Govt Sacks Kashmir University Professor, Others for Alleged Terror Links (Business Standard)

“[D]emolitions in the area since last week’s court ruling [are] triggering fears of a mass deportation not seen in two decades”:

• Armed with High Court Expulsion Order, Israel’s Bulldozers Arrive in Masafer Yatta (972 Magazine)

Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she had to live “in the shadow” of Johnson’s assertion that she was in Iran on professional rather than personal business:

• Released Aid Worker Tells UK’s Johnson His Error Worsened Her Iran Detention (Reuters)

The U.S. doesn’t share Borrell’s optimism while Iran blames Israel for the bizarre detention of the EU team at the the Frankfort airport on their return from Iran:

• EU’s Borrell Says Coordinator Trip to Iran Broke Deadlock (Jerusalem Post)

What Albaz’s attorney calls opposition to violent attacks on any religious site is in the minds of Israeli prosecutors “praise, identification and encouragement for violent acts”:

• Muslim Religious Leader Charged with Incitement over Temple Mount Remarks (Haaretz)

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