News and Analysis 7/12/25

Israeli settlers are certain they can beat innocent American citizens to death with impunity. Are they right?

• BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says (Zeteo)

“[T]he Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened”:

• Federal Judge Issues New Nationwide Block Against Trump’s Order Seeking to End Birthright Citizenship (CNN)

The Zionist war on free speech — and the resistance — continues:

• Trump Officials Used Shadowy Website to Target Pro-Palestinian Academics for Deportation, Court Records Show (Politico)
• How a Shadowy Online Blacklist Became a Legal Threat to Pro-Palestinian Activists (Mother Jones)
• Mahmoud Khalil Files $20m Claim Against Trump Administration for False Imprisonment (The Guardian)

Sexual violence against women and detention against journalists reported in Sudan:

• War Crimes Being Committed in Sudan, ICC Believes (BBC)
• Sudan: Journalists Detained by Armed Group in North Darfur (International Federation of Journalists)

Israeli war crimes continue:

• A Gaza Teen Joins a Generation of Young Amputees Facing an Unimaginable Future (Washington Post)
• Satellite Images Show Israel’s Gaza ‘Concentration Camp’ Preparations (Aljazeera)
• U.N.: Israel Has Killed 800 Palestinians Seeking Aid in Gaza, Many at U.S. “Aid” Operation GHF (Democracy Now!)

The victim of the FBI sting repeatedly balked at assignments, only giving “gift cards for pitifully small amounts of cash” and at the end “appeared ready to turn in his purported ISIS contact — an FBI agent — to the FBI”:

• The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With “Brain Development Issues” to Become a Terrorist (The Intercept)

“Since being moved to the West Virginia facility, the ACLU said, Holt has been denied access to basic hygiene, religious services and contact with his lawyers … [and] has lost access to ongoing casework and legal documents that support his cases”:

• Muslim Inmate Who Won US Supreme Court Beard Case Claims Retaliatory Transfer by Arkansas Officials (abc News)

“Soliman’s asylum was revoked by a Chicago asylum officer without a hearing or judicial oversight, according to his lawyer”:

• Muslim Chaplain’s Name Appears on Terrorism Watch List, Lawsuit Claims (Fox19)

“We really wanted to open that college door for them and give them the opportunity to keep competing at a high level” — Ashley Flavin, head coach of women’s wrestling at Life University:

• How 3 Muslim Sisters Helped Change the Rules of American Women’s Wrestling (NPR)

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