News and Analysis 5/17/23

“[T]he parade, which celebrates the capture in 1967 of East Jerusalem and its subsequent occupation”:

• What Is ‘Flag Day’ in Jerusalem and Why Is It So Controversial? (Aljazeera)

“[P]roviding people in authoritarian regimes with a false sense of public opinion while doing their leaders’ bidding hardly helps foster civil liberties.”:

• Twitter Caved to Censorship Requests From Turkey’s Authoritarian Government (Reason)

The Nakba has not ended:

• Diyar Omri: Son of Sandala and Symbol of the Ongoing Nakba (New Arab)

Five “groups asked Quebec Superior Court to ‘declare constitutionally invalid, inapplicable, inoperative or to annul … (the) governmental order to prohibit all forms of prayer’ in schools”:

• Muslim Groups Ask Court to Quash Quebec’s ‘Discriminatory’ School Prayer Ban (Montreal Gazette)

An American was able to get the Israeli who fractured his skull arrested “though the odds of him being convicted or suffering more than a slap on the wrist are slim”:

• Taxpayer Money Shouldn’t Support Illegal Settlements in Palestine (Progressive Magazine)

“Soon after the trial, Kazemi called his fiancee from Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison and told her they were tortured and forced to confess”:

• Three Protesters Face Death in Iran, in Year of More than 200 Executions (Washington Post)

“The New Earth suggests the question … [is] not, why would Bering, or why did Rachel Corrie, take a radical leap toward solidarity, but, rather, why don’t more of us?”

• “The New Earth” Grapples with a Family’s Silence on Palestine (New Republic)

The false binary fiqh (“Sharia”) vs. Sufism is a “simplification [that] evades theological controversies, local contexts, historical complexities, and dynamism of everyday life”:

• Politicized Sufism in Islam: A Double-Edged Sword (E-International Relations)

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