{"id":84623,"date":"2021-08-11T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84623"},"modified":"2021-08-11T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:59:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-11-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84623","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 8\/11\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b>&#8220;[P]rominent civil rights, Jewish, and faith-based organizations and leaders today strongly denounced flagrant anti-Muslim animus targeting Dilawar Syed and his historic nomination for deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/civilrights.org\/2021\/08\/11\/flagrant-anti-muslim-bias-weaponized-against-sba-nominee\/#\">Flagrant Anti-Muslim Bias Weaponized Against SBA Nominee<\/a> (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After decades of lying through omission, \u00c2\u00a0a more honest American discussion of Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear arsenal &#8220;could breathe new life into the distant dream of a nuclear-free Middle East&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/11\/opinion\/biden-israel-nuclear-program.html\">America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nukes<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Under the smokescreen of electoral redistricting, New Delhi is using gerrymandering to politically neuter the region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muslim majority&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/08\/11\/modi-is-trying-to-engineer-a-hindu-majority-in-kashmir\/\">Modi Is Trying to Engineer a Hindu Majority in Kashmir<\/a> (Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elected officials, Republicans and Democrats alike, who have taken up Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s directive to punish Ben and Jerry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s are &#8220;exhibiting their pro-Israel bona fides&#8221; at the expense of all of our First Amendment rights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/activism\/ben-and-jerrys-israel\/\">At Risk in Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Backlash Against Ben and Jerry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s? The Right to Protest<\/a> (The Nation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is becoming impossible for American Jews to &#8220;reconcile their liberal values with support for a state accused of committing crimes against humanity&#8221; by imposing an apartheid regime on Palestine &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-diaspora-minister-says-may-lose-us-if-american-jews-back-bds-blm\">&#8216;We May Lose US&#8217; if American Jews Continue Backing BDS, Says Israel&#8217;s Diaspora Minister<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; is that the explanation for Israel&#8217;s unusual decision to grant building permits to some Palestinian West Bank residents?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/gantz-approves-1000-new-housing-units-for-palestinians-in-west-bank-676443\">Israel Approves 1,000 Palestinian Homes in W. Bank Area C<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shaikh Abdul Aziz was killed by Indian forces on this day while leading mammoth march to Azad Kashmir in 2008 against the economic blockade of the Kashmir valley by &#8220;the extremist Hindus of Jammu&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/kms\/2021\/08\/10\/hurriyat-ajk-leaders-pay-homage-to-sheikh-abdul-aziz.html\">Hurriyat AJK Leaders Pay Homage to Sheikh Abdul Aziz<\/a> (Kashmir Media Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Researchers attribute the high suicide attempt rate to two factors: religious discrimination and community stigma \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both of which, they say, prevent Muslim American communities from seeking mental health services&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/10\/1025430083\/muslims-suicide-attempts-study-religion-american\">American Muslims Are 2 Times More Likely to Have Attempted Suicide than Other Groups<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Palestinian woman was hospitalized after being shot in her &#8220;lower body&#8221; near the northern West Bank city of Nablus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/israeli-forces-shoot-injure-palestinian-woman-in-west-bank\/\">Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Palestinian Woman in West Bank<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Afghan officials say 3 more provincial capitals fall to Taliban amid US withdrawal as the &#8220;insurgents now hold 9 out of 34 provincial capitals&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-taliban-e2c0e7b46c03cebb4fdddca309e005e8\">Afghan Officials: 3 More Provincial Capitals Fall to Taliban<\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[P]rominent civil rights, Jewish, and faith-based organizations and leaders today strongly denounced flagrant anti-Muslim animus targeting Dilawar Syed and his historic nomination for deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)&#8221;: Flagrant Anti-Muslim Bias Weaponized Against SBA Nominee (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) After decades of lying through omission, \u00c2\u00a0a more honest [&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-84623","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\/84623","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=84623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84629,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84623\/revisions\/84629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}