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Attacks on Mamdani Prove Israel’s Supporters Can’t Even Tolerate Criticism of Netanyahu

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  The United States should not roll out the red carpet for a foreign leader who has systematically starved and slaughtered thousands of people, including children . This simple principle is what led New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to declare that Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in the Big Apple and call on the federal government to honor the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister. RECOMMENDED... Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit Netanyahu ‘Should Be Arrested and Tried,’ Says Mamdani, But NYC Lacks Authority to Detain Him By publishing this speech, which is now the most popular video he has ever posted on social media , Mayor Mamdani did what no mayor before him dared: speak the truth about American complicity in the Israeli government’s human rights abuses. For decades, New York City’s leaders have gone out of their way to embrace all things Israel . From Eric Adams to Rudy G...
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CAIR Documents 183 Percent Increase in Mosque Incidents Compared to Same Time Period Last Year

  CAIR Documents 183 Percent Increase in Mosque Incidents Compared to Same Time Period Last Year CAIR urges community leaders to pre-register to receive the soon to be released updated Best Practices for Mosque and Community Safety Guide   The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, today said it has documented 17 incidents targeting Islamic places of worship in May, June, and July to date. The 17 incidents represent 51 percent of the previous year’s total and a 183 percent increase over the same three-month period last year, during which CAIR documented six such incidents.   SEE: Google Sheet Listing Mosque Incidents May-June-July 2026   The incidents include a terroristic attack on a mosque, threats of violence, arson, acts of intimidation, and opposition to Islamic places of worship on the basis of religion.    Muslim Community Leaders: Register to Receive NAIT and CAIR’s Updated Best Pra...
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Starvation as a weapon: The ICJ Myanmar case could redefine genocide

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  Long before the 2017 killings, Myanmar was dismantling the Rohingya’s ability to survive. Yuyun Wahyuningrum                                                                                      28 July 2026 As the International Court of Justice deliberates its judgment in the case of The Gambia v. Myanmar (Opens in new window) after the conclusion of public hearings earlier this year, the court faces a question that reaches far beyond Myanmar: can the deliberate weaponisation of hunger (Opens in new window) itself constitute genocide? The answer may lie in one of the Genocide Convention’s least examined provisions. Article II(c) prohibits deliberately inflicting “conditions of life calculated to bring about [a group’s] physical destruction in whole or in part”. Drafte...
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Himal Interviews: India’s politics of fear and division

Subscribe to Himal SouthAsia for reading such articles. Himal Interviews: India’s politics of fear and division The politician Manoj Jha talks to Harsh Mander about how the moral compass of India’s political class has been destroyed By The Editors   In June 2025, Himal Southasian launched a podcast series titled Partitions of the Heart in collaboration with Karwan-e-Mohabbat, hosted by the peace activist Harsh Mander. The inaugural season, called ‘Muslim Life – and Death – in Modi’s India’,  focuses on the deepening crisis of Muslims in the country. Since 2017, Mander and Karwan-e-Mohabbat have done the extraordinary and difficult work of documenting a rising wave of hate and crimes against India’s Muslims, and of lending support and solidarity to victims of communal atrocities. In Mander’s words, “We live in deeply troubled times of visceral, everyday hate, violence, fear and division. The first step towards healing our growing fractures is to talk and listen to each other.”...
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