News and Analysis 12/25/22

Muslims look at Christmas in America …

• Eboo Patel: A Muslim Family Celebrates Christmas (Chicago Tribune)

… and in the land of Jesus’s (pbuh) birth:

• Unholy Days and Nights in Bethlehem (Israel-Palestine News)
• Caution Overshadows Christmas Celebration in Bethlehem as Palestinians Brace for a Radical-right Israeli Government (Arab News)
• Occupation: On Christmas, Israel Denies Palestinian Christians Their Rights (Middle East Eye)
• In Gaza, Christian and Muslim Palestinians Celebrate Christmas Together (Arab News)

On the heels of its unIslamic ban on women’s higher education …

• Egypt’s Al-Azhar Imam: Taliban’s Ban on Women’s University Studies Contradicts Sharia (Siasat)

… the Taliban takes the bread out of the mouths of Afghani families by prohibiting Afghani females from working with foreign aid agencies:

• Taliban Bars Women from Working at NGOs; Some Groups Halt Operations (Washington Post)

Sen. Warren and Rep. Jacobs charge that the DOD “is undercounting U.S.-caused civilian casualties in the Middle East and failing to make condolence payments even for [those] deaths it does acknowledge.”:

• America’s Loose Ends in the Middle East (Reason)

Netanyahu committed to recognise up to 100 illegal outpost communities across the Palestinian territories, to the dismay of Israel’s international partners”:

• Netanyahu Commits Israel to Recognise Illegal Settler Outposts in Occupied West Bank (New Arab)

“In yet another demonstration of Islamophobia in India, there is no outcry over Twitter’s arbitrary suspension of our editor Ahmed Khabeer” — The Jamia Times:

• Twitter Suspends Account of Muslim Journalist Ahmed Khabeer (Makbool)

Those fighting real antisemitism say she is targeted “to silence her and to undermine her mandate as a senior UN official reporting about Israel’s violations of human rights and international law”:

• Scholars of Anti-Semitism Defend UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Against Pro-Israel Onslaught (Middle East Monitor)

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