News and Analysis 7/16/23

The man sought the permit to prove a point by not using it:

• ‘I’m a Muslim, I Can’t Burn Sacred Books’: Sweden Man Says Won’t Burn Torah (TRT World)

Israel is as eager to eraser the history of Palestinians as to erase their villages and the people themselves:

• How Israel Weaponises Museums to Erase Palestinian Existence (Aljazeera)
• How the Resistance of Palestinians Has Been Defying Israel’s Ongoing ‘Nakba’ (The Wire)

“The management of the media was one of the central planks of the Modi government’s policy-making on Kashmir”:

• Backstory: Revisiting the Ruins of Kashmir’s Media Ahead of the Fourth Anniversary of August 5 (The Wire)

The Palestine Water Authroity WA said that Mekorot “is depriving Palestinians of having sufficient access to water, especially during rising summer temperatures” :

• Israeli Water Company Mekorot Reduces Water Supply to West Bank’s Bethlehem, Hebron (New Arab)

“[M]ore than 300 clerics, Islamic scholars and researchers … said they were launching a campaign in Africa to counter stereotypes that impede the emancipation of Muslim women” …

• African Clerics: Muslim Women Leadership Fine Under Islamic Teachings (VoA)

… but in Iran a woman was sentenced to wash corpses for a month for “‘non-compliance with hijab’ while driving” …

• Iran Court Verdicts Attempt to Suppress Civil Resistance by Women (VoA)

… seemingly part of a new campaign to put the morality police back on the streets 10 months after nationwide protests were sparked by a woman’s death in their custody:

• Iran’s ‘Morality Police’ Return as Authorities Enforce Hijab Rule (Aljazeera)

“Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, a peaceful sit-in against Israel’s policy of forced eviction, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem” …

• Israeli Army Assaults Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, Abducts Four (International Middle East Media Center)

… and “Palestinian residents had tried to defend themselves after settlers stormed their lands, damaging their crops and trying to run over their sheep”:

• 12 Palestinians injured in Israeli Settler Attack on Masafer Yatta (New Arab)

“Most of us Hindus wear a mala, tilak, or other religious identifiers but we have never been told anything by our managers or passengers. No one had any objection to the said conductor wearing a skull cap”:

• Passenger Makes Bengaluru Muslim Bus Conductor Remove Skull Cap, Despite No Such Rule (The News Minute)

“When the enslaved Muslims rose in the Malê Revolt, … the authorities deported most of the survivors”:

• Muslim Slaves Taken to Brazil Were Expensive, and Worked to Earn Their Freedom (Middle East Memo)

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