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Top Israeli Official’s Call to Murder ‘30 to 40’ Each Night in Gaza Again Exposes Israeli Genocide

  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said remarks by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir advocating the killing of “30 to 40” people in Gaza every night provide further evidence of genocidal intent and underscore the urgent need for the United States to end its support for Israel’s military campaign. Ben-Gvir said in a podcast conversation that he believes Israel should conduct targeted assassinations in Gaza and “tak[e] down 30 to 40 every night.” He further said that some people in Gaza are “not worthy of life” and “not even people.” Similar statements by Ben-Gvir and other Israeli officials have been presented to the International Court of Justice as evidence of genocidal intent. In a statement, Washington, D.C.-based CAIR said: “Once again, a senior Israeli official is openly advocating an increase in the ongoing mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza. Itamar Ben-Gvir’s hate...
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CAIR-NY Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Hate Vandalism Targeting Mosque Site on Long Island

  The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate reported hate vandalism targeting a mosque site on Long Island as a possible hate crime and to identify and hold accountable those responsible. In a statement, CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher said: “Targeting a mosque site with hateful vandalism is an act of intimidation against an entire community. Muslim New Yorkers should be able to establish houses of worship and gather for prayer without fear that their property will be targeted because of their faith. “We urge local, state and federal law enforcement to conduct a thorough investigation and determine whether this incident constitutes a hate crime. We also call on elected officials and community leaders to speak out clearly against growing anti-Muslim bigotry and religious i...
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Dhaka must deflect Naypyidaw’s Rohingya ploy

  MYANMAR’S claim, as New Age reported on August 16, that only 540,000 Rohingyas had fled violence in Rakhine State into Bangladesh in 2016–2017 appears nothing but a ploy to delay any likely repatriation of the Rohingyas who have lived here since then. Naypyidaw has dismissed Dhaka’s figure that more than a million Rohingyas having lived in Bangladesh as being ‘inaccurate’. Myanmar’s foreign ministry, in the claim made on August 15, has not also referred to the people who fled to Bangladesh as the Rohingyas. Myanmar’s statement names them as ‘Bengalis’ and has said that more than 740,000 of them had lived in Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Rathedaung townships in Rakhine before the ‘Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacks,’ noting that more than 200,000 of them still remained in the areas whilst more than 540,000 fled to Bangladesh. In the wake of several such attempts by Myanmar to delay, confuse or frustrate any efforts to repatriate the Rohingyas, this appears to be one more such atte...
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Non-refoulement: Not all roads lead (safely) home

  While the Ministry of Home Affairs has begun screening those who will be repatriated, the Malaysian Bar emphasises that those subject to this process must be given a genuine, informed choice of return as they face an existential threat to their lives and safety if they are forcibly returned in dangerous circumstances. The announcement comes against the backdrop of continuing, if not rising, hostility towards the Rohingya community, including dehumanising rhetoric, misinformation and attempts to portray an entire persecuted community as a security or social threat based on isolated incidents. READ MORE:    Detained and forgotten: Time for reform Principle of non-refoulement The principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits returning individuals to territories where their life, liberty or physical safety is threatened, is not only globally recognised as a rule of customary international law but is increasingly affirmed as a peremptory norm of general international law (ju...
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Daily Star: Create conditions for safe return of Rohingya

  We are outraged by Myanmar's latest claims about the Rohingya exodus and the number of people who fled to Bangladesh following the military crackdown in Rakhine in August 2017. After Bangladesh submitted a list of 8,28,824 names to Myanmar for verification, the latter said it had verified 4,26,545 as of July 31 and identified 3,08,797 as former residents of Rakhine. According to Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than 5,40,000 people crossed into Bangladesh following the crackdown, while more than 2,00,000 remained in northern Rakhine. It has also said it will accept the return of those verified once security conditions in Rakhine improve. After nearly nine years of Rohingya displacement, these claims are deeply troubling. Bangladesh has rightly rejected them and questioned the reliability and completeness of Myanmar's verification process. Bangladesh is now hosting more than 12 lakh Rohingyas, including children born during their years in exile. Our government h...
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Umar Khalid: the forgotten student hero of India

 In Modi's India, there is no justice but only Hindutva that weaponizes religion to get to power. Unfathomed hatred of and intolerance of anything Muslim is a fair game. Muslims are singled out in a crowd of protesters; they are arrested and lynched. This is Modi's India: a very hateful place where Muslim lives don't matter. They are denied justice. See the info below on Umar Khalid, the JNU student who led student protests against hate in 2020. - HS == Who is Umar Khalid? Umar Khalid is an Indian human rights activist, researcher, and former PhD scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. He first gained national prominence in 2016 as a student leader advocating for minority rights, social justice, and constitutional values. In 2017, he co-founded the civil rights group United Against Hate to combat growing systemic violence and discrimination against marginalized communities in India.  By late 2019, Khalid had become one of the most visible faces of th...
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