News and Analysis 3/24/23

Israeli Ramadan gifts to the Palestinians include murder, home break-ins, breaking up fast-breaking meals, withholding corpses, a plan to ban political parties, and even an attack on a church …

• Palestinian Shot and Killed During an Israeli Army Raid of a Village near Tulkarm (Wafa)
• Armed Settlers Break into Palestinian Family Home Under Cover of Darkness (972 Magazine)
• Israeli Police Disperse Ramadan Family Gathering in Jerusalem (New Arab)
• Palestinian Mothers Demand Israel Releases Bodies of Their Loved Ones (New Arab)
• The Israeli Right Is Planning to Ban Palestinian Parties. Here’s How (972 Magazine)
• Jewish Radicals Attack Jerusalem’s Church of Gethsemane During Sunday’s Worship (Mondoweiss)

… but at least prisoners will be allowed to break their fast:

• Palestinian Prisoners Suspend Hunger Strike after Israel Concedes to Their Demands (Palestine Chronicle)

“A new report shows the degree to which American financial institutions discriminate against Muslims”:

• Payments Denied, Flagged And Scrutinized: The Harrowing Experience Of Banking While Muslim (Huffington Post)

Blocked by Israel from conducting her investigation in-country, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights is forced to investigate remotely and from  and nearby venues:

• “Non-Visit” to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (UN-OHCHR)

“The portrait of El Sayed’s irascible, outspoken Nana (grandmother) is vivid and memorable, and gives the lie to racist stereotypes of Muslim women as passively oppressed and silent”:

• Book Review: Young Muslim Woman’s Memoir Deserves Respect and Attention (Vancouver Sun)

“[T]he idea of Palestinians as an ‘invented people’ is a common view among Zionists”:

• Golda Meir Agreed with Bezalel Smotrich that Palestinians Don’t Exist. So Why Are House Members Pushing to Honor Her? (Mondoweiss)

A “drone strike killed a U.S. contractor, injured five American service members and wounded one other contractor in Syria”:

• U.S. Launches Airstrikes in Syria After Suspected Iranian Drone Kills a U.S. Worker (NPR)

“There is no greater danger to the regime in Israel than its turning into a democracy” — Gideon Levy:

• Israelis Know that True Democracy Will Spell the End of Zionism (Haaretz)

Israel provided no evidence for its claim that militants were in the area:

• State Department Human Rights Report Whitewashes Shireen Abu Akleh Killing (Mondoweiss)

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