Israel is determined to continue its oppression of Palestinians even on Muslim and Jewish holidays, and even if they are American citizens:
- Israel’s Parliament Votes to Extend Ban on Palestinian Family Unification (Haaretz)
- Israel to Close Palestinian Territories During Jewish Festival (New Arab)
- Israel to Continue Demolishing Palestinian Homes During Ramadan (Middle East Eye)
- Palestinian Human Rights Advocates Refused Entry to US, Blocked from Leaving Palestine (Middle East Eye)
U.S. withdrawal from JCPOA bears its inevitable fruit:
Fearing he “would be snubbed by the U.S. administration” over his call for genocide during his upcoming visit to Washington, Smotrich now says he “misspoke”:
“If the poisoning of students is proven, those behind this crime should be sentenced to capital punishment and there will be no amnesty for them” — Khamenei:
There is no end in sight for the nearly daily violence by soldiers and settler:
- Three Minors Among Seven Palestinians Detained by Occupation Forces in West Ban (Wafa)
- ‘I Couldn’t See if My Brother’s Murderer Was a Soldier or Settler’ (972 Magazine)
- Four Palestinians Injured in Confrontations with Israeli Soldiers in Aqbat Jabr Refugee Camp (Wafa)
“The brutality began as an effort to disrupt Muslims praying together but morphed into a protracted effort to punish those who prayed”:
- ‘Stop Praying Now’: Bonne Terre Prison Guards Beat, Pepper-spray Muslim Inmates, Lawsuit Alleges (KSDK)
Premodern Muslim scholars accepted that “variety, disagreement, and even outright contradiction are the inevitable outcomes of the human endeavor to comprehend God’s message” …
- The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern (Marginalia)
… unlike today’s Bahraini government that prohibits “discussion and questioning of Islamic law” as mockery:
- Bahrain Prosecutes Religious Reformers: Traditionalists Fight Back (Middle East Soccer)
“Kashmiris have had the colonial concept of ‘state lands’ mobilized against them as [a ploy] to cast Indigenous communities as illegal occupants of their own land”:
- Report on ‘India’s Impunity in Kashmir’ Reveals Israel Connection (Palestine Chronicle)
