News and Analysis 12/24/25

Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:

• How Israel’s Hilltop Settlers Coordinate Attacks to Expel Palestinians (Reuters / MSN)
• 1 Palestinian Killed, 12 Injured in Israeli Fire in Gaza Strip Despite Ceasefire (Andalou Ajamsi)
• 24 Palestinians Injured in Qalandia Refugee Camp and Kafr Aqab (IMEMC)
• Israeli Forces Demolish Shops in Raids near Occupied East Jerusalem (Aljazeera)
• Under Rubble and Candlelight: Gaza’s Christmas After Genocide (Palestine Chronicle)
• Israel Will Never Fully Withdraw from Gaza, Defence Minister Says (Aljazeera)

“[T]he suit … raises significant questions regarding civil liberties, the intersection of law enforcement and minority communities, and the operational transparency of police departments”:

• NYPD Faces Lawsuit over Alleged Records Gathered from Muslim Surveillance Program (Breachspot)

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

• Greta Thunberg Arrested over Palestine Action Demo (BBC)

Patterson’s Christian mayor says that “Muslims … contribute to the social and economic fabric of Paterson” and invites Tulsi Gabbard to “come visit us herself and see with her own eyes that [the claims in her speech are] 100% false”:

• Speech at Turning Point USA Singles Out Paterson Muslims. NJ’s Response (northjersey.com)

In Tuesday, “Alice Kisiya, a Palestinian Christian activist from Beit Jala in the occupied West Bank … was able, for the first time since 2019, to set foot on her family’s land in the Christian village of al-Makhrour”:

• Victory Against Israeli West Bank Settlement Offers Palestinians Some Hope (Aljazeera)

“Four Nobel laureates and several former heads of state are among the more than 400 prominent women who have signed a letter demanding the immediate release of Zahra Tabari, an Iranian engineer facing … ‘execution solely for holding a banner bearing the words ‘Woman, Resistance, Freedom’”:

• More than 400 Influential Women Urge Iran to Halt Execution of Female Activist (France 24)

A veteran of the 1960s civil rights movement says that Greg Abbott reminds him of “George Wallace in Alabama, Ross Barnett in Mississippi, and Orval Faubus in Arkansas”:

• Gov. Abbott’s Anti-Muslim Tactics Mirror Racist Governors of the 1960s. He, Too, Must Fail (Dallas Observer)

“Other countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain and Turkiye, have already joined the case in The Hague”:

• Belgium Joins South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel at ICJ (Aljazeera)

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