News and Analysis 7/19/24

“Israel must end settlement construction immediately and that existing settlements must be removed, according to the 83-page opinion”:

• Top UN Court Says Israel’s Presence in Occupied Palestinian Territories Is Illegal and Should End (AP )

The “Knesset, passed by a vote of 68 – 9, said the establishment of a Palestinian state ‘in the heart of the Land of Israel would pose an existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and destabilize the region’”:

• US Says It Is Committed to Two-state Solution After Knesset Votes Overwhelmingly Against Palestinian Statehood (Anadolu Ajansi)

India’s equivalent to the “yellow star”:

• “Like Nazi Germany”: UP Police Under Fire for Kanwar Yatra Rule (NDTV)

It is expected that Tamimi’s long-delayed “appeal can now proceed. Among other issues, Al-Timimi’s lawyers have contended that his conviction violates the First Amendment by punishing him for his speech”:

• Some Convictions Overturned in Terrorism Case Against Muslim Scholar from Virginia (AP)

The war crimes continue:

• Israeli Soldiers Tell Story of Savage Cruelty in Gaza – One Given Blessing by the West (Middle East Eye)
• Searching for Gaza’s Missing Children (972 Magazine)
• ‘Disregard for Human Life’ – Oxfam Slams Israel for Weaponizing Water, Starvation (Palestine Chronicle)
• Polio Virus Found as Flies and Mosquitoes Feast on Gaza’s Waste, amid War (New Arab)
• War on Gaza: Footage Appears to Show Israeli Strike on Donkey Cart Pulling Civilians (Middle East Eye)

Britain’s FM “David Lammy told parliament he was reassured that the agency, which provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians, had taken steps to ensure it has the ‘highest standards of neutrality’”:

• Britain Will Resume Funding to UN Palestinian Refugee Agency UNRWA (Reuters)

“The marketing of ‘Anglo neighbourhoods’ in the occupied West Bank at real estate events in synagogues in Toronto, Los Angeles, New Jersey, and other locations wouldn’t be out of place 30 years ago in apartheid South Africa or Rhodesia”:

• Why Are North American Synagogues Selling West Bank Real Estate? (New Arab)

“We don’t want to force anyone into anything. And indeed, we don’t anyone to force whatever they want on us” — Thoraia Hussein, a “mother of six and a local youth mentor”:

• ‘They’re Not Listening to Us’: 100 Muslim Parents Oppose Gender Ideology at Virginia School Board Meeting (Daily Signal)

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