News and Analysis 12/15/22

The World Cup demonstrates that ordinary Arabs do not share their despotic rulers’ desire for normalization:

• De-Normalizing Israeli Normalization at the World Cup (Jewish Currents)
• Pro-Israel Group Complains to FIFA About Morocco Waiving Palestine Flag (Middle East Monitor)

“The United States introduced the resolution, which” passed 29-8, with 16 abstentions:

• Iran Removed from UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN News)

Under police surveillance, “shunned and stigmatized,” with most “denied job opportunities, and others facing financial ruin” the women protesting the hijab ban have expanded their social reform targets:

• Protests Ended, but Shaheen Bagh’s Young Muslim Women Have Been Launching Daily Mutinies (The Print)

“If the White House and Sanders’ office fail to reach an agreement, Sanders says he will reintroduce the resolution”:

• Bernie Sanders Abandons Plan to Force Vote on Yemen War (Reason)

Its role in politics, decentralization, and the role of youth are issues confronting the Muslim Brotherhood:

• Muslim Brotherhood Succession Crisis Deepens (Algemeiner)

“Palestinian and Jewish human rights organizations, as well as major newspaper editorial boards, have opposed codifying the IHRA definition of antisemitism into law” …

• Several US Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity (Truthout)

… as FaceBook steps up its war on Palestinian rights and free speech:

• Facebook Threatens to Delete Palestine Chronicle Page, Censors Its Staff (Palestine Chronicle)

“After Al-Haq took legal action against it, the Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) admitted that the articles contained false claims harming ‘the good name of the organization’” …

• Israel Lobby Admits to Lying About Palestinian Rights Group (Electronic Intifada)

… while someone has gone to a lot of trouble producing fake documents to smear Canada’s largest Muslim organization; the organization thinks it is the government:

• RCMP Probes Fake Papers Saying Muslim Charity Funds Terrorism (The Globe and Mail)

“[S]oldiers … confessed directly to their crimes, including recognition and condemnation, but unfortunately they did not speak of remorse”:

• The Tantura Massacre’s Perpetrators Confessed. Its Survivors Have This to Say (Local Call / 972 Magazine)

The revelation has raised “a question on the functioning of the department and quality of education;” 44% of private schools have a similar problem:

• 64 per Cent Government Schools in Jammu Kashmir Have Libraries Without Books (The Kashmiriyat)

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