{"id":84481,"date":"2021-06-29T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84481"},"modified":"2021-06-29T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:05:59","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-29-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84481","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 6\/29\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered the Palestinian neighborhood and destroyed a butcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shop in Silwan. Soldiers used &#8220;tear gas and batons&#8221; against residents and activists as they carried out the demolition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/police-palestinians-clash-israel-begins-demolition-jerusalems-silwan-2021-06-29\/\">Police, Palestinians Clash as Israel Begins Demolition in Jerusalem&#8217;s Silwan<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s violent and deliberate crackdown against &#8220;journalists, activists, and rights groups observers&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 throughout the protests in Ramallah &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/palestine-nizar-banat-killing-violent-crackdown-protests-women-journalists-target\">Nizar Banat Killing: Witnesses Recount Palestinian Authority&#8217;s Violent Crackdown on Protests<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; the United Nations showed concern for the PA&#8217;s illegal tactics. Spokesmen for the UN secretary general specifically addressed &#8220;the murder of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat and the PA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suppression of the protests&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/un-concerned-about-suppression-of-freedoms-by-pa-in-west-bank\/\">UN \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcConcerned\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 About Suppression of Freedoms by PA in West Bank<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. forces in Syria were attacked by rockets a day after the U.S. military carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran-backed militia groups, and things are about to get worse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world-report\/articles\/2021-06-29\/iran-us-violence-poised-to-escalate-following-retaliatory-strike\">Iran-U.S. Violence Poised to Escalate Following Retaliatory Strike<\/a> (US News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During a speech in parliament, Israeli Knesset member Yitzhak Pindrus openly called for the &#8220;killing of couples involved in mixed marriages&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-knesset-member-pindrus-calls-murder-mixed-marriages\">Israel: Knesset Member Calls For Murder of People in Mixed Marriages<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amidst their ongoing campaign of rapid expansion, the Taliban grow ever closer to capturing their first major city in Afghanistan by attacking Ghazni, a highway &#8220;linking the capital Kabul with the southern province of Kandahar&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/6\/29\/afghanistan-taliban-fighters-launch-attack-on-ghazni\">Afghanistan: Taliban Fighters Launch Attack on Ghazni<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UN Secretary General Ant\u00c3\u00b3nio Guterres urged India on Monday to end the use of pellets against children in occupied Jammu and Kashmir as well as to &#8220;stop associating children with the security forces in any way&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dunyanews.tv\/en\/Pakistan\/608425-UN-chief-urges-India-to-end-atrocities-against-Kashmiri-children\">UN Chief Urges India to End Atrocities Against Kashmiri Children<\/a> (Dunya News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India accuses Twitter, which has expressed concerns over &#8220;harassment of its employees in India &#8230; and the potential threat to freedom of expression,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of &#8220;treason&#8221; for depicting occupied Kashmir as an independent nation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/29\/twitter-in-india-faces-criminal-charges-for-kashmir-map-treason\">Twitter in India Faces Criminal Charges for Kashmir Map \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTreason\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Huda Mukbil &#8220;said she was treated as an insider threat and interrogated about her religion during her 15-year career at CSIS&#8221; and &#8220;was forced to cut ties with Muslim organizations, ostracized at work and treated like a second-class citizen&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/racism-descrimination-claims-canadian-security-intelligence-service-1.6083353\">A Muslim Former Intelligence Officer Says Systemic Racism at CSIS Is a Threat to National Security<\/a> (CBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"more-on\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered the Palestinian neighborhood and destroyed a butcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shop in Silwan. Soldiers used &#8220;tear gas and batons&#8221; against residents and activists as they carried out the demolition: Police, Palestinians Clash as Israel Begins Demolition in Jerusalem&#8217;s Silwan (Reuters) Following the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s violent and deliberate crackdown against &#8220;journalists, [&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-84481","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\/84481","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=84481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84485,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84481\/revisions\/84485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}