“The relative horror expressed over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh is justified and necessary. It is also belated and self-righteous. Now you’re appalled?” — Gidon Levy:
Old habits are hard to break. Once again Germany bans Jews (this time Jüdische Stimme, a Jewish group that supports Palestinian rights) from speaking out …
… and “arrested and repressed anyone they saw demonstrating support for Palestine”:
- German Police Attack Palestine Supporters on Nakba Day (electronic intifada)
“Oz, who would be the country’s first Muslim senator” condemned his opponent’s tweet that “[p]edophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam”:
Iran has arrested some filmmakers and a sociology professor:
- Filmmaker: Officials Arrest Iran Movie Industry Workers (AP / abc News)
- Iran Academic Arrested on Security Charges, ‘Foreign Links’ (Star-Tribune)
Djalali “was sentenced to death the following year after being found guilty of passing information about two Iranian nuclear scientists to … Mossad … that had led to their assassinations”:
After approving crypto mining in 2019 the regime established licensing, regulations, and tariffs that have pushed miners into illegal activity to benefit from electricity subsidies:
- Iran Has Shut Down Nearly 7,000 Illegal Crypto Mining Operations as It Looks to Solve Its Energy Crisis (Business Insider)
India bristles that the OIC is among the many critics of its gerrymandering aimed at disempowering Muslims:
- India Slams OIC’s ‘Unwarranted Comments’ on Delimitation Exercise in Kashmir (Hindustan Times)
- India Redrawing Kashmir Assembly Seats to ‘Disempower Muslims’? (Aljazeera)
“The City Council voted unanimously in April for the street renaming to honor the city’s large Palestinian community and its contributions to civic life and business”:
The “recently reimprisoned Palestinian lawyer and activist” wants the ICC to investigate “years of persecution and new tactics to forcibly transfer Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem”:
- Palestine: Salah Hammouri Urges International Criminal Court to Investigate Israel’s Crimes in Jerusalem (International Federation for Human Rights)
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