News and Analysis 5/26/23

“University heads argue that the aim of the legislation is to ‘turn academic institutions into branches of the Israeli Police and the Shin Bet’”:

• Israel’s University Chiefs Slam ‘Fascistic’ Bill Outlawing Palestinian Flag, Warn of Academic Boycott (Haaretz)

They face death on charges of criminal collusion “against national security, and … propaganda activities against the regime”:

• Iran Urged to Hold Trial of Two Women Journalists in Open Court (Iran Wire)

State and settler violence continues:

• ‘War Crime’: Israel Forcibly Transfers Palestinian Village (Aljazeera)
• Israeli Forces Shoot and Injure 13 Palestinians During Raid near Jericho (Wafa)
• Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian in Southern West Bank (Wafa)

Plaintiffs seek relief for high school students who sought space to pray:

• Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville Tables a New Legislation to Reform the Education System (Toronto Star)

“Iron Dome facilitates greater Israeli offensive measures, because it lowers the perceived cost to Israel of escalating or extending or initiating attacks”:

• Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System (Jewish Currents)

“Polite Society” tackles “cultural issues not by addressing them head on but by commenting through character-based humor”:

• Filmmaker Nida Manzoor’s Vision of the Modern Muslim Woman: Funny, Rebellious—and Imperfect (America: The Jesuit Review)

“The families’ rights to visit these sites and the right to dignified burial have obviously been violated under both Israeli and international law”:

• UK Study of 1948 Israeli Massacre of Palestinian Village Reveals Mass Grave Sites (The Guardian)

G20 participants “will see a sanitised version of Kashmir, much like … government leaders who are treated to … vacations in Israel only see what Israel wants them to see”:

• Kashmir in the Shadows (New Age)

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