News and Analysis 5/11/24

“They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,” said one whistleblower, who worked as a medic at the facility’s field hospital”:

• Strapped Down, Blindfolded, Held in Diapers: Israeli Whistleblowers Detail Abuse of Palestinians in Shadowy Detention Center (CNN)

“We only have two wheelchairs, so I have to carry one of [two seriously injured family members] on my back and so it would be impossible to move at all if the situation worsened”:

• Number of Palestinians Fleeing Rafah Rises Above 150,000 amid Israeli Strikes (The Guardian)

Bringing in the police is the main source of campus violence:

• US Student Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Remain Overwhelmingly Peaceful (ACLED)
• After a 2-week Encampment, Philly Police Arrest 33 Protesters on Penn’s Campus (WHYY)
• Protesters March in University City After Police Dismantle Penn’s Encampment (6abc)
• Pro-Palestinian Protests Continue at Johns Hopkins University Despite Administrative Order to Clear Encampment (CBS News)
• Breaking: Pro-Palestine Protesters and UW-Madison Administration Agree on Deal to End Encampment (Daily Cardinal)
• More Than 180 Harvard Faculty Sign Letter Urging Garber to End Pro-Palestine Encampment (Harvard Crimson)

The Center for Constitutional Rights warns “of the abuse of broad ‘material support’ laws to shrink the space for Palestinian rights”:

• October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division” (The Intercept)

“[T]he Home Office told Ashkar that [her visa] had been denied on the grounds that granting it would ‘harm the public interest’, without giving any further reasons or explanation”:

• “UK Home Office Revokes Visa of Palestinian Student After Protest Speech” (Middle East Eye)

Voting against the motion were the United States, Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea”:

• UN Assembly Approves Resolution Granting Palestine New Rights and Reviving Its UN Membership Bid (AP)

The “draft Hamas accepted contained only ‘minor changes in wording’ from a version the US had earlier pushed for with Israeli approval, and that the changes were made in consultation with Burns”:

• Exclusive: Hamas Refuses Changes to Ceasefire Proposal as Delegation Leaves Cairo (Middle East Eye)

“[R]emoving the special status of the Himalayan region hasn’t gone down well with the people” in Kashmir …

• Kashmir: Why Modi’s BJP Is Not Fighting Elections in the Himalayan Region (BBC)

… while in the Pulwama district, the “former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister also alleged that her party’s active workers, who have been organising its meetings, have been detained ahead of the polling”:

• Mehbooba Mufti Accuses Jammu and Kashmir Administration of Trying to ‘Fix’ Lok Sabha Elections (The Hindu)

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