News and Analysis 12/8/22

The man was accused “of blocking a street in Tehran and attacking a member of the security forces with a machete”:

• Iran Carries Out the First Known Execution of a Prisoner Arrested in Recent Protests (NPR)

Israeli violence continues:

• West Bank: Dozens Wounded and Arrested in Israeli Night raids (Middle East Eye)
• Palestinians: Israeli Army Kills 4 in West Bank Violence (AP News)
• Israel Kills Three Palestinians in Jenin, General Strike Called (Aljazeera)
• Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seventeen Palestinians In West Bank (International Middle East Media Center)
• Israeli Forces Target Entrance of University in Hebron with Tear Gas, Dozens Suffocate (Wafa)
• Palestine: Israel Digs Up Agricultural Lands West of Bethlehem (Middle East Memo)

An economist warns Iran that the absence of “public participation … eliminates people’s motivation to cooperate with the government”:

• Academics Urge Government Not To Make Situation Worse In Iran (Iran International)

“The Palestinian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry slammed the move as a violation and targeting of Palestinian education institutions”:

• Occupation Forces Replace Flag of Palestine with Israel on Nablus School (Middle East Monitor)

German “teachers … are less likely to recommend Muslim students to private schools”:

• Muslim Students Face Discrimination in German Schools: Rights Group (Siasat)

“Rather than addressing the main sources of anti-Semitism today (primarily the Western far right), seven of the eleven examples associated with the definition mention Israel”:

• Confronting the IHRA Definition and the Attack on the Palestine Movement: Israel is a Racist Endeavour (Samidoun)

“Administrative Detention” in an effort to “soften” outrage against it, it remains as notorious as South Africa’s “Detention without trial”:

• Detention Without Trial: A Routine Practice Targeting Palestinians (Palestine Chronicle)

Ignoramus tells a Muslim Melrose city councilor to “go back to your own country”:

• Melrose City Councilor Allegedly Targeted in Anti-Muslim Incident (WGBH)

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