{"id":20240,"date":"2019-04-02T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20240"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:40:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-2-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20240","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/2\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/palestineun.org\/about-palestine\/diplomatic-relations\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;137 states<\/a> bilaterally recognize Palestine.&#8221;  The &#8220;City Council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership team &#8230; decided to remove [the Councilman who refuses to recognize this fact] from the immigration committee&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/31\/nyregion\/kalman-yeger-israel-palestine.html\">A Jewish Councilman Who Said \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPalestine Does Not Exist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Loses Seat on Immigration Committee<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The plea bargain also requires Martinez-Torres to answer any questions from the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family during the next year &#8230; [in the hope of helping]  settle &#8230; whether the attack was motivated by anti-Muslim  hate&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/03\/29\/man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-muslim-teen-nabra-hassanen\/\">Man sentenced to life in prison for murder of Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen<\/a> (Religion News Service)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Accusations that young children have thrown stones notwithstanding, B&#8217;Tselem says that Israeli authorities holding them alone without notifying parents &#8220;speaks  volumes as to the moral blindness afflicting them&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/31\/middleeast\/children-detained-in-divided-hebron-intl\/index.html\">Israeli Troops Detained a 9-year-old Palestinian at School. It&#8217;s &#8216;Becoming Normal&#8217;, Locals Say<\/a> (CNN)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;There are days that I couldn&#8217;t sleep. In particular when the municipality demolished houses.  How can &#8230; we who suffered from discrimination over centuries &#8230; discriminate other people. No, it&#8217;s  impossible&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/specialseries\/2019\/03\/jerusalem-rock-hard-place-190325074255178.html\">A Rock and a Hard Place: What Is It Like to Live in Jerusalem?<\/a> (Al-Jazeera) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Israeli soldiers invaded &#8230; various parts of the occupied West Bank, searched and  ransacked homes and workshops, and abducted eleven Palestinians, in  addition to shooting one during ensuing protests&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imemc.org\/article\/israeli-army-abducts-eleven-palestinians-injures-one-in-west-bank\/\">Israeli Army Abducts Eleven Palestinians, Injures One, in West Bank<\/a> (International Middle East Media Center)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That a small group managed to force the women out of the main campus is a sad commentary on the administration. &#8230; [S]tudents of the women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college &#8230; are an equal part of the AMU &#8230; [and have] an equal right over it&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/education\/what-aligarh-muslim-university-can-learn-from-its-women-students\">What Aligarh Muslim University Can Learn from Its Women Students<\/a> (The Wire)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The total obliteration of Muslim representation from the largest state in&#8221; India shows that the &#8220;fight to save secular principles and practices &#8230; is a fight that secular Hindus cannot win on their own&#8221;:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/communalism\/elections-2019-muslim-voters\">The Missing Muslim Vote and Voice in 2019<\/a> (The Wire)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Javad Zarif tweeted late Monday that America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  &#8216;maximum pressure&#8217; policy on Iran&#8221; that prevents &#8220;Iran from acquiring badly needed &#8230; relief  helicopters &#8230; &#8216;isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just economic warfare; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economic  TERRORISM'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iran-says-us-sanctions-impeding-flood-rescue-operations\/2019\/04\/02\/8e65b1a0-551a-11e9-aa83-504f086bf5d6_story.html?utm_term=.a24861748982\">Iran Says US Sanctions Impede Flood Rescue Operations<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With no clear grounds for the charge, Britain, France and Germany are accusing Iranian development of missile technology for space and non-nuclear purposes of being &#8220;inconsistent  with a UN resolution&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190402-britain-france-germany-seek-full-un-report-iran-missile-activity\">Britain, France, Germany Seek Full UN Report of Iran Missile Activity<\/a> (France24)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We found a lot of solidarity from our friends at groups like Jewish  Voices for Peace and If Not Now and others who have said that people are  actually diluting real anti-Semitism by equating all criticism of  Israel with&#8221; it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/436933-muslim-rights-advocate-says-omar-as-broadened-the-conversation-on-how-to\">Muslim Rights Advocate Says Omar Helped &#8216;Broaden the Conversation&#8217; About Israel<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;137 states bilaterally recognize Palestine.&#8221; The &#8220;City Council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership team &#8230; decided to remove [the Councilman who refuses to recognize this fact] from the immigration committee&#8221;: A Jewish Councilman Who Said \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPalestine Does Not Exist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Loses Seat on Immigration Committee (NY Times) &#8220;The plea bargain also requires Martinez-Torres to answer any questions from the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20248,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20240\/revisions\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}