"Leaked footage of rape of a
Palestinian detainee last year
leads to legal repercussions – but
not for those accused":
The Zionist war on free speech --
and the resistance -- continues:
"[A]ny type of scholarly analysis
or critique of economic and social
policies in Iran can be grounds
for unjust criminal charges" --
Karin Deutsch Karlekar, director
of Writers at Risk at PEN America
...
... while "critics describe ... a
judicial system under extreme
political pressure, where
exculpatory evidence is dismissed,
confessions are extracted through
torture, and families are
systematically broken apart":
Settler violence and Israeli war
crimes continue:
The "impulse to write against or
teach against ... stereotypes is
very present, and yet I’ve stopped
trying to tell an easy story for
my students as well. I want them
to understand the complicated
layers of nuance":
"The ballot question ... asked the
mayor of Somerville and all
elected leaders to cease current
city business and ban future
investments or contracts that
support what it called 'Israel's
apartheid, genocide, and illegal
occupation of Palestine'":
"Israel has not disclosed how many
bodies it is holding or where they
were recovered, but has been
returning 15 each time the remains
of an Israeli hostage are returned
from Gaza":
Iran and the U.S. must "break the
cycle of coercion and
confrontation, ... agree on the
format and expectations of the
negotiations ahead of time[,] ...
compromise on critical issues such
as enrichment and stockpiles[, and
the Trump administration will have
to mitigate the influence of
individuals in Israel and Congress
who oppose the negotiations":
"Isn’t Islam inherently violent?
What stopped the Islamic world
having an Enlightenment? Why are
some Muslims so into
head-chopping? Jonathan Cook
examines some common
misperceptions":
on this site