{"id":84399,"date":"2021-06-10T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84399"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:38:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-10-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84399","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/10\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noted that this is the first time that a member of America&#8217;s &#8220;third largest religion &#8230; will become the first to ever serve as an Article III judge&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/10\/politics\/zahid-quraishi-confirmation-vote\/index.html\">Senate Confirms Zahid Quraishi as First Muslim American Federal Judge in US History<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Israeli authorities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decision to shut down the Palestinian Health Work Committees (HWC) will have &#8220;catastrophic consequences&#8221; for the health needs of Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), said Amnesty International today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/6\/10\/amnesty-raises-alarm-as-israel-shuts-palestinian-health-provider\">Amnesty Raises Alarm as Israel Shuts Palestinian Health Provider<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>170 members of the Odeh family living in the town of Silwan are facing threats of eviction on &#8220;the pretext that they built houses without permits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-palestine-silwan-eviction-families\">Silwan: 170 Members of a Palestinian Family Face Eviction in Three Neighborhoods<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Fourteen Palestinians were arrested on Thursday in Jerusalem after disturbances following a press conference by an extreme right-wing Israeli MP&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210610-fourteen-palestinians-arrested-after-israeli-mp-s-rally-police\">Fourteen Palestinians Arrested After Israeli MP&#8217;s Rally: Police<\/a> (France 24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while footage released by Haartez exposed Israeli jailers for brutally assaulting &#8220;55 shackled Palestinians&#8221; thought to have links with Hamas. An official from the prison told Haaretz that &#8220;it was one of the most violent incidents to take place in Israeli prisons&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-palestine-jailers-assault-palestinians-negev-prison\">Video Footage Show Israeli Jailers Assaulting Palestinians in Negev Prison<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nathaniel Veltman intentionally plowed his truck into a Pakistani-Canadian family in the province of Ontario, killing four out of five family members in what is now being labelled as a hate crime. The 9 year old boy who survived is &#8220;hospitalized in critical condition&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/06\/07\/canada-london-vehicle-attack-hate-veltman\/\">Four Muslim Family Members in Canada Killed in Targeted Attack, Police Say<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Delhi has unleashed a &#8220;slew of colonial amendments, rules, and laws&#8221; designed to target Muslim majority areas and perpetuate huge demographic shifts in Jammu and Kashmir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pakobserver.net\/modi-pursuing-colonial-designs-in-iiojk-on-fast-track-hurriyat-leaders\/\">Modi Pursuing Colonial Designs in IIOJK on Fast Track: Hurriyat Leaders<\/a> (Pakistan Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Iran announced publicly for the first time Thursday that it is sending two warships into the Atlantic Ocean but remained mum on where exactly the two vessels are headed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/557759-iran-mum-on-destination-of-two-warships-in-atlantic-ocean\">Iran Mum on Destination of Two Warships in Atlantic Ocean<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;USC Annenberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new study on Muslim representation in media \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which found that less than 10% of top grossing films from 2017-2019 had a Muslim character on screen, with less than 2% of those characters having speaking roles&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/film\/news\/riz-ahmed-muslim-study-usc-annenberg-inclusion-initiative-pillars-fund-1234993247\/\">Riz Ahmed, Pillars Fund, USC Annenberg &amp; Ford Foundation Unveil the Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion<\/a> (Variety)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The suit alleges that JBS Swift &amp; Company denied employees &#8220;bathroom breaks and disciplin[ed] them more harshly than other workers because they were Muslim, immigrants from Somalia, and Black&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/JBS Settles Muslim Discrimination Lawsuit for $5.5 Million\">JBS Settles Muslim Discrimination Lawsuit for $5.5 Million<\/a> (AP \/ US News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noted that this is the first time that a member of America&#8217;s &#8220;third largest religion &#8230; will become the first to ever serve as an Article III judge&#8221;: Senate Confirms Zahid Quraishi as First Muslim American Federal Judge in US History (CNN) The Israeli authorities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decision to shut down the [&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-84399","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\/84399","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=84399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84407,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84399\/revisions\/84407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}