{"id":81791,"date":"2020-04-09T05:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81791"},"modified":"2020-04-09T05:13:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:13:23","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-9-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81791","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/9\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FBI investigation of Americans nonviolent group supporting Palestinians relied heavily on biased right-wing claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/04\/05\/israel-palestine-fbi-terrorism-investigation\/?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=0efdbd42-a333-4257-8bea-b72bea20b2cf\">FBI Opened Terrorism Investigations Into Nonviolent Palestinian Solidarity Group, Documents Reveal<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With the coronavirus &#8220;the world is getting a taste of what daily Palestinian life has been like for decades&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/04\/07\/palestine-tech-industry-coronavirus\/\">In Palestine, a Digital Desert Starts to Bloom<\/a> (Fortune)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Pakistani troops downed the drone when it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intruded 600 meters inside  Pakistan&#8217;s territory&#8221; for surveillance along the Line of Control that  divides the Pakistani- and Indian-controlled portions of Kashmir&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2020\/04\/09\/world\/asia\/ap-as-pakistan-indian-drone.html\">Pakistan&#8217;s Army Says It Shot Down Indian Drone in Kashmir<\/a> (AP \/ NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran works with Interpol to exchange prisoners, after some 100,000 have been released:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-04\/07\/c_138952407.htm\">Iran in Talks With Countries to Swap Prisoners Amid COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a> (Xinhua) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of political differences, U.A.E. is the first country to send aid for Iran to fight coronavirus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-06\/iran-says-virus-coordination-has-improved-its-ties-with-u-a-e\">Iran Says Virus Coordination Has Improved Its Ties With U.A.E.<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrested on &#8220;allegations of [child] abuse &#8230;later concluded to be unfounded&#8221; the woman was left in tears at having to remove what she sees as &#8220;not a fashion accessory but important to her religious faith&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/muslim-woman-sues-yonkers-new-york-says-police-forced-her-n1179291\">Muslim Woman Sues Yonkers, New York, Says Police Forced Her to Remove Hijab After Arrest<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;d think Muslims would know: Ingesting alcohol doesn&#8217;t cure you; it kills you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/08\/hundreds-dead-in-iran-after-drinking-pure-alcohol-as-coronavirus-cure\/\">Hundreds Dead in Iran After Drinking Pure Alcohol as Coronavirus \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCure\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a>  (NY Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI investigation of Americans nonviolent group supporting Palestinians relied heavily on biased right-wing claims: FBI Opened Terrorism Investigations Into Nonviolent Palestinian Solidarity Group, Documents Reveal (The Intercept) With the coronavirus &#8220;the world is getting a taste of what daily Palestinian life has been like for decades&#8221;: In Palestine, a Digital Desert Starts to Bloom (Fortune) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81791","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\/81791","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\/122827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81791"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81812,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81791\/revisions\/81812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}