{"id":84335,"date":"2021-05-23T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84335"},"modified":"2021-05-25T21:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:51:27","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-23-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84335","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/23\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As popular perception continues to shift in favor of Palestinians, many young American Jews begin to separate their Jewish American identities from Israel. &#8220;Killing more that 200 Palestinians in two weeks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring back our ancestors who perished in the Holocaust&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-commentary\/israel-palestine-jewish-american-support-1172309\/\">Young American Jews Have Reached a Tipping Point With Israel<\/a> (Rolling Stone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As if to underscore that Israel&#8217;s ceasefire is only with Hamas and not with innocent civilians, Israeli settlers have once again raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/23\/backed-by-israeli-police-jewish-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-compound\">Backed By Israeli Police, Jewish Settlers Enter Al-Aqsa Compound<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Palestine Legal, an organization that defends &#8220;the civil and constitutional rights of U.S citizens who advocate for Palestinian freedom,&#8221; responded to &#8220;1707 incidents of suppression from 2014 to 2020&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/05\/palestinian-israeli-conflict-occupation-free-speech-palestine-exception\">When It Comes to Palestine, Free Speech Rights Are Under Attack<\/a> (Jacobin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AP told Emily Wilder that her tweets &#8220;violated the news agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s social media policy when she was fired this week, but that they did not say which tweets were in violation of that policy, or how&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/22\/disgraceful-ap-slammed-for-sacking-reporter-amid-gaza-war\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDisgraceful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: AP Slammed for Sacking Reporter amid Palestine Row<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scott Horton&#8217;s new <em>Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism<\/em> is so important because now that &#8220;everyone is talking about rightwing delusions and conspiracy theories, we really need to understand how&#8221; the lie that Iraq was behind 9\/11 &#8220;became so repeatable by American leaders&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2021\/05\/the-lies-and-conspiracy-theories-from-neocon-crazies-that-fueled-iraq-war-are-subject-of-new-history\/\">The Lies and Conspiracy Theories from Neocon \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCrazies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that Fueled Iraq War Are Subject of New History<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nine workers were injured in a blast at a chemical factory in Isfahan, Iran, alleged to have\u00c2\u00a0 created drones used against Israel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/23\/blast-at-iran-factory-as-israel-accuses-state-of-providing-drones-to-hamas\">Blast at Iranian Complex Housing Drone Factory Injures Nine<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[N]ot a single Indian army personnel has been tried despite committing massacres such as the Hawal massacre where 70 innocent Kashmiris were killed by indiscriminate firing by the Indian army\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2301198\/protests-held-across-uk-to-observe-kashmir-martyrs-day\">Protests Held Across UK to Observe Kashmir Martyrs&#8217; Day<\/a> (The Express Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Jewish-Iranian parliamentarian labelled Benjamin Netanyahu\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a tyrant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who would manipulate religious values to enable carnage and occupation, and who &#8220;has chosen racism as his ideology&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2021\/05\/23\/jewish-iranian-mp-slams-israel-calls-on-jews-to-support-palestinians\/\">Jewish-Iranian MP Slams Israel, Calls on Jews to Support Palestinians<\/a> (Israel Hayom)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As popular perception continues to shift in favor of Palestinians, many young American Jews begin to separate their Jewish American identities from Israel. &#8220;Killing more that 200 Palestinians in two weeks won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring back our ancestors who perished in the Holocaust&#8221;: Young American Jews Have Reached a Tipping Point With Israel (Rolling Stone) As if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84335","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\/84335","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\/158132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84355,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84335\/revisions\/84355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}