{"id":83210,"date":"2020-09-27T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83210"},"modified":"2020-09-27T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T16:26:16","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-27-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83210","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/27\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two SFSU professors expect the university to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153seriously and publicly challenge Zoom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt to control higher education and the content of our curriculum and classrooms&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/nora-barrows-friedman\/youtube-zoom-and-facebook-censor-leila-khaled-israel\">YouTube, Zoom and Facebook Censor Leila Khaled for Israel<\/a> (Electronic Intifada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">Mohammed Ali al-Houthi says that &#8220;the word terrorism is a floating term that the United States could not define&#8221; but raises against &#8220;those who reject America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s policies in killing and injustice,&#8221; now even against its &#8220;own citizens demonstrating in the United States&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/us-yemen-houthi-terrorism\/2020\/09\/25\/996b2012-fc17-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html\">U.S. Launches New Terrorism Review of Iran-backed Rebels in Yemen<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">The human rights activist has always been provacative. &#8220;Shouted at, he would shout back. More than once, an angry host kicked him off the air. &#8221; But on Modi&#8217;s watch he was &#8220;shot &#8230;in the head and chest in the courtyard of his home in &#8230; the capital of Kashmir&#8221;:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/25\/world\/asia\/kashmir-lawyer-killed.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email\">Babar Qadri, Champion for Kashmir, Is Killed as Violence Mounts<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;director general of the Israel Water Authority, said that there is no blanket policy against selling [Palestinian] water [back] to Palestinians and that no requests to buy it have crossed his desk in his three years in charge,&#8221; as if such requests would be granted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/west-bank-israel-water\/2020\/09\/24\/a607c854-f2d3-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html\">The Famed \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcJericho Banana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Is Vanishing. Under Israeli Occupation, There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Not Enough Water<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Iraqi-Iranian relations continue to warm, Pompeo issues new threats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-iran-iraq\/iran-and-iraq-commit-to-boosting-border-cooperation-and-trade-idUSKBN26H0WZ\">Iran and Iraq Commit to Boosting Border Cooperation and Trade<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/09\/25\/just-ahead-election-pompeo-is-pressuring-iraqs-leader-raising-tensions-with-iran\/\">Just Ahead of the Election, Pompeo Is Pressuring Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Leader and Raising Tensions with Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A five-star hotel claims it gave the Muslim raffle winner of an expensive bottle of cognac a cheap box of chocolates out of respect for his religion, but a court awards the man 2,000 pounds in compensation, alleged good intentions notwithstanding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ae\/news\/other\/muslim-hotel-worker-wins-compensation-over-alcohol-chocolate-swap\/ar-BB19q3sy\">Muslim Hotel Worker Wins Compensation over Alcohol-chocolate Swap<\/a> (Arab News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he 2020 election is the first election in decades about which candidate &#8216;would most quickly end&#8217; America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wars, with both Biden and Trump looking &#8216;to be the &#8220;peace candidate&#8221; despite having track records that make it hard to claim such a title'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/blog\/campaign-foreign-policy-roundup-what-do-about-iran\">Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: What to Do About Iran?<\/a> (CFR \/ Water&#8217;s Edge)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;There is no justification for the repeated violent treatment against those who seek to eke out a living for their children&#8221; &#8212; Hamas statement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/palestinians-egypt-gaza-idINKBN26I0A4\">Palestinians Say Egyptian Fire Killed Two Gaza Fishermen<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[N]othing testifies to the decline of Saudi Arabia more than the abrupt rise of its junior partner as a bellicose regional power, interfering in Libya and Tunisia and supporting dictators and war criminals&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2020\/9\/21\/the-end-of-the-saudi-era\/\">The End of the Saudi Era<\/a> (Alhjazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two SFSU professors expect the university to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153seriously and publicly challenge Zoom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt to control higher education and the content of our curriculum and classrooms&#8221;: YouTube, Zoom and Facebook Censor Leila Khaled for Israel (Electronic Intifada) Mohammed Ali al-Houthi says that &#8220;the word terrorism is a floating term that the United States could not define&#8221; [&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-83210","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\/83210","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=83210"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83223,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83210\/revisions\/83223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}