{"id":95409,"date":"2026-10-19T05:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95409"},"modified":"2026-10-19T05:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:46:58","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=95409","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 10\/19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An aspiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/brexit-party\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Reform UK<\/a> MP who advocated the use of concentration camps &#8230; has been suspended from the party&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/oct\/18\/aspiring-reform-mp-cannot-be-muslim-and-british-suspended\">Aspiring Reform MP Who Said \u2018You Cannot Be Muslim and British\u2019 Suspended<\/a> (The <em>Guardian)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anews.com.tr\/middle-east\/2026\/10\/19\/israeli-occupiers-injure-2-palestinians-attack-ambulance-in-west-bank\">Israeli Occupiers Injure 2 Palestinians, Attack Ambulance in West Bank<\/a> (a News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/israeli-settlers-attack-palestinians-military-conducts-raid-occupied\">Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians as Military Conducts Raid in Occupied West Bank<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/18\/a-timeline-of-west-bank-attacks-on-palestinians-and-foreign-officials\">A Timeline of West Bank Attacks on Palestinians and Foreign Officials<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Homeland Security Department said that an announcement on the future of both programs would be \u201cmade at the appropriate time\u201d and that people covered by them would be protected until then&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/18\/us\/politics\/ukraine-sudan-tps-trump.html\">Migrants From Ukraine and Sudan to Keep Deportation Protections for Now<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ilhan Omar has &#8220;&#8221;always been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration,&#8217; said the ICE official, who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity to protect their livelihood. &#8216;This has to be politically motivated'&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/10\/15\/ice-omar-raid-midterms-political\/\">Inside ICE, Officials Question String of Trump Admin \u201cMidterm Panic Moves\u201d<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; yet &#8220;[u]nlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/10\/15\/ilhan-omar-raid-corporate-media-coverage\/\">Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where\u2019s the Elite Media Outrage?<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Gaza was self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables before the war, but the vast majority of farmland has been occupied by Israel\u2019s military. The sophisticated greenhouse and irrigation systems that supported agricultural production have been destroyed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/19\/cuts-world-food-programme-end-support-palestinians-gaza\">Cuts Force World Food Programme to End Support for Half a Million Palestinians in Gaza<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An aspiring Reform UK MP who advocated the use of concentration camps &#8230; has been suspended from the party&#8221;: Aspiring Reform MP Who Said \u2018You Cannot Be Muslim and British\u2019 Suspended (The Guardian) Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue: Israeli Occupiers Injure 2 Palestinians, Attack Ambulance in West Bank (a News) Israeli Settlers Attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95409","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\/95409","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95411,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95409\/revisions\/95411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}