The genocide continues:
- West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill Five Palestinians in Jericho Raid (Middle East Eye)
- Palestinians Mourn the Death of 26-year-old Abdullah Qalalweh (Middle East Eye)
- Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Father of Newborn with a Bullet to the Chest (Israel-Palestine News)
Only Hebrew speakers are allowed gun permits, but that doesn’t stop the flow of guns to Palestinians seeking to defend themselves from armed settlers; it only makes the weapons more expensive:
- ‘Guns Are Everywhere’ in Israel, Occupied Territories as Violence Spikes (Washington Post)
Iran has for the first time acknowledged the breadth of recent arrests …
… but it is not clear how many will be included in upcoming planned pardons and commutations:
South Africa coined the word apartheid, but it took Israel to come up with segregated roads. Netanyaho wants to push the concept a step further:
Journalists are among the targets …
.. of the nearly daily raids “mostly carried out at night-time”
“They say that they are only targeting the rich and not touching the poor. But on the ground, even houses on three-marla land and under tin sheds are being demolished”:
- With Eviction Drive, BJP Has Turned Jammu and Kashmir into Afghanistan, Says Mehbooba Mufti (Indian Express)
If the Republicans’ concerns over Ilham Omar weren’t just a political stunt they wouldn’t have voted to put her on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the first place:
- House Republicans Vote Ilhan Omar to Foreign Affairs Committee Just to Kick Her Off the Next Day (Reason)
Pakistan targets Wikipedia and expands its “blasphemy” prohibition to cover the companions of the Prophet (pbuh):
- Pakistan Blocks Wikipedia, Says It Hurt Muslim Sentiments (AP / abc News)
- The Politics of Blasphemy: Why Pakistan and Some Other Muslim Countries Are Passing New Blasphemy Laws (NewsTimes)
“[H]as there ever truly been — a debate on which aspect of Israel’s ‘Jewish and democratic’ character is more prominent?”
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