News and Analysis 9/27/24

“We were leaving the building when they started pushing and hitting and throwing us against the floor” — Besan Zeidan, the president of Temple SJP:

• Temple Students Detained After Engineering Career Fair Pro-Palestine Protest (Temple News)

“Israel’s decision to ramp up its offensive against Hizbollah, Iran’s most important regional proxy, has become the biggest test so far of whether the regime can” avoid “what Pezeshkian has described as Israeli ‘traps’ to lure Tehran into war” …

• Iran Races to Allay Hizbollah Fears (Financial Times)

… “there is a red line somewhere”:

• Hezbollah Is Pounded by Israel, but Key Ally Iran Is Reluctant to Intervene (Washington Post)

“[M]ore than 4,000 people have signed an open letter … [that] accuses Cornell of ‘procedural problems’ in the application and enforcement of suspensions.  … Academics … have rallied behind him, and … have written about his talents as an educator and argued that he is being unfairly singled out”:

• Cornell Grad Student Who Attended Pro-Palestine Protest Could Be Forced to Leave U.S. (Rolling Stone)

“[C]ampaigns, which often appear to be fueled by undisguised Islamophobia, misrepresent teaching about religion as indoctrination into a religion, misunderstand the imperatives of the First Amendment, and threaten the integrity of the public education system”:

• Islam in the Classroom: Teaching About Religion Is Not Religious Indoctrination (National Coalition Against Censorship)

Israeli war crimes continue:

• Israel Attacks School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians in Gaza (Aljazeera)
• Israel Sends 88 Unidentifiable Bodies of Palestinians to Gaza in a Container (Truthout)
• Abbas Dismisses ‘Israeli Lies’, Tells World Leaders Entire Generations Being Wiped Out in Gaza (UM News)
• In the Occupied West Bank, Palestinians Struggle to Access Water (NPR)
• Deadly Israeli Assault in the Occupied West Bank (Aljazeera)

The firing of the tenured Jewish professor for quoting a Palestinian poet on her personal Instagram account “sets a grim new precedent against a backdrop of right-wing attacks on higher education nationwide”:

• Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech (The Intercept)

“Jammu was given more seats in the new delimitation, which is considered unfair, causing discontent among the Kashmiri people”:

• Occupied Kashmir Residents Voice Discontent over Election Seats, Voting Arrangements (Dunya News)

A “number of prominent Muslim organizations … released a statement this month urging Muslim voters to vote for a third party candidate … who supports a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a U.S. arms embargo on the Israeli government … such as … Dr Jill Stein, Dr Cornel West or Chase Oliver”:

• How Kamala Harris Could Win Back Muslim Voters (Newsweek)

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