{"id":84348,"date":"2021-05-25T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84348"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:01:30","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-25-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84348","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/25\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once Palestine&#8217;s cultural and economic capital, Jaffa is still home to around 20,000 Palestinians that lived there before Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s establishment in 1948, but government backed gentrification aims to push them out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/05\/jaffa-israel-and-the-battle-over-gentrification.html\">The Other War in Israel: Gentrification<\/a> (Intelligencer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Undercover Israeli forces, known as &#8220;Mista\u00e2\u20ac\u2122arvim&#8221;, sneaked their way into the Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood, where they shot and killed a young man identified as Ahmad Jamil Fahd, before leaving him &#8220;to bleed to death&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/25\/palestinian-man-killed-by-israeli-undercover-unit-in-west-bank\">Palestinian Man Killed by Israeli Undercover Unit in West Bank<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The interpretation of <em>la\u00c3\u00afcit\u00c3\u00a9\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> in contemporary France allows both left wing neo-republicans and right wing conservatives &#8220;to justify policies targeting Muslim visibility&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/berkleycenter.georgetown.edu\/responses\/publicly-french-privately-muslim-the-aim-of-modern-laicite\">Publicly French, Privately Muslim: The Aim of Modern La\u00c3\u00afcit\u00c3\u00a9<\/a> (Berkeley Center)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After Muslim butcher Mohammad Shakir filed a case against the men who brutally assaulted\u00c2\u00a0 for selling cow meat, UP police counter-sued him for &#8220;&#8216;mischief by killing an animal&#8217; and committing an act likely to spread infection&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2021\/05\/24\/muslim-meat-seller-assaulted-in-up-police-file-counter-case-against-him\/\">Muslim Meat Seller Assaulted in UP; Police File Counter Case Against Him<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It seemed like all these ethno-nationalists from India and Israel coming together&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/pranavdixit\/anti-muslim-bias-india-israel-palestine\">The Israeli\u00e2\u20ac\u201cPalestinian Conflict Has Further Stoked Anti-Muslim Bias All the Way in India<\/a> (Buzzfeed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reports indicate that the extensive use of &#8220;draconian laws and frequent imposition of curfews&#8221; by Indian security forces have created &#8220;an atmosphere of terror and fear&#8221; in Indian occupied Kashmir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/news\/2021\/05\/25\/india-grilled-over-terror-atmosphere-in-iiojk\/\">India Grilled Over Terror Atmosphere In IIOJK<\/a> (Kashmir Media Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran has informed the UN nuclear watchdog it has decided to extend a monitoring deal with the agency for a month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/24\/us\/politics\/iran-nuclear-program-inspections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran Extends Agreement With Nuclear Agency, Averting Crisis<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Iran is using its abundance of oil to generate electricity that powers a massive bitcoin cryptomining operation that enables the country to turn its greatest natural resource into money&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankinfosecurity.com\/iran-devises-way-to-convert-oil-to-bitcoin-a-16734\">Iran Devises Way to Convert Oil to Bitcoin<\/a> (Bank Info Security)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Palestine&#8217;s cultural and economic capital, Jaffa is still home to around 20,000 Palestinians that lived there before Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s establishment in 1948, but government backed gentrification aims to push them out: The Other War in Israel: Gentrification (Intelligencer) Undercover Israeli forces, known as &#8220;Mista\u00e2\u20ac\u2122arvim&#8221;, sneaked their way into the Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood, where they shot [&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-84348","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\/84348","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=84348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84353,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84348\/revisions\/84353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}