License to Kill: Forgery, evidence tampering and two dead teens | +972 Magazine

Usaid and Muhammed Qadus are shot to death in their own village by a major in the Israeli army who claims he only fired rubber bullets. But the bullets were real, and he admitted to lying and committing forgery to cover up his crime. Instead of being charged with a crime, he is promoted. By John Brown and Noam Rotem (Translated from Hebrew by Ofer Neiman) In the “License to Kill” series thus far, we have surveyed eight Military Police investigation files regarding the killing of Palestinians by IDF fire. Despite the fact that none of those killed posed a danger…

Source: License to Kill: Forgery, evidence tampering and two dead teens | +972 Magazine

Palestinian poet at heart of row on Israeli army radio broadcast | World news | The Guardian

ID Card was written in 1964, when Darwish was working as a literary assistant in Haifa on an Israeli communist party publication. Its most famous line – “Write it down! I’m an Arab” – was later borrowed for a documentary of his life. Like many of his poems, it balances complex emotions often within a single stanza: anger, pride in a sense of self, rejection of stereotyping and a warning of the consequences of oppression. It finishes: “Write down on the top of the first page: / I do not hate people / And I do not steal from anyone / But if I starve / I will eat my oppressor’s flesh / Beware, beware of my starving / And my rage.”

Source: Palestinian poet at heart of row on Israeli army radio broadcast | World news | The Guardian

الكاتبة الفلسطينية نادية حرحش توقّع بالقاهرة روايتها “في ظلال الرجال” | مصريات

Hosted a “D” Centre for Studies and Research in Cairo signing ceremony and discuss the novel “in the shadows of men,” published by Dar Ibn Rushd, the Palestinian writer and professor of Islamic studies at the University of Jerusalem Nadia Harhash.

And witnessed the signing ceremony and discuss the novel presence of Dr Yasser Ayoub, editor of 7 days, the Syrian and Jihad Saad artist and publisher Bisan aggression, a large number of intellectuals and artists of Palestinians and Syrians expatiate Egypt.

Initially Nadia Harhash emphasized the fact that the writing was liberated from many of the constraints and concerns, and opened her many windows on the world again and helped in the treatment of a lot of pain and aches accumulated in lipstick and body.

Harhash added that this novel does not reflect Vsltinih woman trip, but as far as expressing Arab women as a whole, Syria or Egypt or Sudan Gulf or Lebanese or Moroccan or Tunisian or Libyan.

استضاف مركز “دال” للدراسات والابحاث بالقاهرة حفل توقيع ومناقشة رواية “في ظلال الرجال”  الصادرة عن دار ابن رشد، للكاتبة الفلسطينية وأستاذة الدراسات الإسلامية بجامعة القدس نادية حرحش. وشهد حفل توقيع ومناقشة الرواية حضور الدكتور ياسر أيوب رئيس تحرير مجلة 7 أيام، والفنان السوري جهاد سعد والناشرة بيسان عدوان، وعدد كبير من المثقفين والمبدعين الفلسطينين والسوريين المقمين بمصر. في البداية أكدت نادية حرحش على كون الكتابة حررتها من كثير من القيود والهواجس، وفتحت لها العديد من النوافذ على العالم من جديد وساعدتها في علاج الكثير من الألم والأوجاع المتراكمة في الروج والجسد. وأضافت حرحش أن هذه الرواية لا تعبر عن رحلة امرأة فسلطينية بل بقدر ما تعبر عن المرأة العربية ككل مصرية أو سورية أو خليجية أو سودانية أو لبنانية أو مغربية أو تونسية او ليبية. الرواية عبارة عن رحلة في عمق امرأة لها الكثير من التوقعات وخيبات الأمل، الهروب من الأحلام والكوابيس، التحديات والتطلعات، نقاط القوة والضعف، كما أن بها أيضا الكثير من المناورات بين الأمومة والأنوثة و التضحية والعطاء، الحب والرحمة، الغضب والانتقام.. إنها حياة النضال وعدم التوقف عن محاولات الصمود، رواية عن الباقين على قيد الحياة أو المحاولين البقاء على قيد الحياة في مختلف الطبقات، وعلى حافة السلطة الأبوية والاحتلال، إنها حياة امرأة تمضي بعيدا عن الرجال أو ظلال الرجال. ومن جانبه قال الفنان السوري جهاد سعد إن رواية “في ظلال الرجال” أشبه بسيرة ذاتية وتاريخية للمرأة في الشرق، حيث تجمع الكاتبة بين الحاضر والماضي والواقع والتاريخ. وأضاف “جهاد” الرواية تطرح العديد من الأسئلة المسكوت عنها وتقتحم تابوهات كثيرة عن الطفولة والذكريات والحب والزواج وعلاقتنا بإجسادنا وعن الإيمان والإتجار بالدين وعن النضال ضد المحتل والثورة التي تبدأ من داخل الإنسان، قبل أن تتحقق في السياق العام.

Source: الكاتبة الفلسطينية نادية حرحش توقّع بالقاهرة روايتها “في ظلال الرجال” | مصريات

How NYers Endured Unbearable Summers Before A.C.: Gothamist

During a heat wave in 1934, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported:15,000 persons spent last night on the beach at Coney Island and several thousand more sought relief from the heat in Brooklyn parks and playgrounds. Additional thousands slept on roof tops and fire escapes in the Brownsville, Williamsburg and other crowded sections of Brooklyn. In Manhattan, many slept on the grass in Central Park and on the open piers in the East River.

Source: How NYers Endured Unbearable Summers Before A.C.: Gothamist

British police report over 6,000 hate crimes in month since Brexit vote | News | DW.COM | 22.07.2016

The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said it had recorded 6,193 incidents of hate crime from mid-June to mid-July, figures obtained from police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.The most commonly reported crimes were harassment, assault and other violence such as verbal abuse or spitting. The second and third most prevalent incidents were public order offences, followed by criminal damage.Since the EU referendum result was declared on June 24, Muslims and Eastern Europeans have said they have been particularly targeted.

Source: British police report over 6,000 hate crimes in month since Brexit vote | News | DW.COM | 22.07.2016

Texas Rape Victim Was Jailed for Fear She Would Not Testify, Lawsuit Says – The New York Times – The last straw in WTF News today!

A rape victim who was jailed in Texas for nearly a month because prosecutors feared she would not return to testify after having a mental breakdown on the stand has sued the Harris County district attorney’s office, county officials and jail employees.The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, was held in the general population at the county jail — the same place where the rape suspect, Keith Hendricks, was housed. There, the suit says, she was misclassified as the perpetrator of a sexual assault — not as a victim — attacked by an inmate, denied medication and punched in the face by a guard.

Source: Texas Rape Victim Was Jailed for Fear She Would Not Testify, Lawsuit Says – The New York Times

Purvi Patel has 20-year sentence for inducing own abortion reduced | US news | The Guardian – The world that Trump’s VP candidate is proud of – putting women in jail if they have a stillborn child

Patel’s conviction, in 2015, made her a national symbol in the debate swirling around abortion. Last week, when Donald Trump selected the Indiana governor, Mike Pence, as his partner on the Republican presidential ticket, many abortion rights groups invoked Patel’s name as a cautionary tale. Trump has said women who have illegal abortions ought to face “some form of punishment”. And activists had prevailed upon Pence to clarify the 2009 law used to convict her, without success.The ruling was not a uniform victory for Patel. The court held that the state had mounted sufficient evidence to show Patel knew the infant was born alive. Patel’s appeals team had challenged the integrity of the forensic test, the controversial “lung float test”, that prosecutors used to argue the infant was not stillborn. But the court agreed with Patel that the state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the infant could have survived. It reduced her child neglect conviction from a class A felony to a class D.“The Indiana court of appeals … ultimately failed Purvi Patel,” Yamani Hernandez, the director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, said Friday. “People of color are bearing the brunt of unscientific laws and misplaced moral outrage against abortion, which is blurring into the territory of miscarriage, putting any pregnant person at risk of prosecution and incarceration. It needs to stop, and the decision didn’t go far enough to restore full justice for Purvi Patel.”AdvertisementA jury convicted Patel in 2015, and in May of this year, a team of volunteer attorneys appealed against her conviction.Prosecutors argued at trial that Patel gave birth to a 25-week-old live infant that could have survived if Patel had sought medical attention instead of abandoning the infant. Patel’s attorneys, who disputed the infant’s gestational age, argued the infant was stillborn, and not developed enough to survive outside the womb no matter what Patel did.Patel’s case quickly became a flashpoint in the country’s heated debate over abortion access. The prosecution painted Patel as hard-hearted and calculating. Women’s rights advocates countered that Indiana’s numerous restrictions on abortion had prevented Patel from terminating her pregnancy in a clinic, and they fingered her trial as part of a pattern of overzealous prosecutions against women who suffer miscarriages.

Source: Purvi Patel has 20-year sentence for inducing own abortion reduced | US news | The Guardian

Thousands of women unknowingly have intrusive photos shared on Twitter | Technology | The Guardian

Thousands of women have had intrusive photographs, taken of themselves without their knowledge, circulated on Twitter for years.Covert photos taken of women on beaches, public transport and elsewhere have been shared to two hashtags for several years with apparent impunity.The images predominately focus on the women’s breasts and buttocks, but in many, their faces are visible. Some appear to be underage.Guardian Australia has chosen not to name the hashtags so as not to compound the violation of the women’s privacy.

Source: Thousands of women unknowingly have intrusive photos shared on Twitter | Technology | The Guardian

Attacks on Dalits leave Gujarat government wounded – Times of India

Initiating the discussion, senior JD(U) member Sharad Yadav sought a ban on ‘gau rakshaks’ (cow vigilantes) operating in some parts of the country . He said it was a matter of shame that even after 70 years of Independence, atrocities against Dalits, especially women, were increasing.”Who created these ‘gau rakshaks? Why doesn’t the government ban them? What is this tamasha? We talk about Taliban … our caste system has a Taliban-like attitude, we need to discuss that,” he said. Congress and other members joined him, saying the incident only exposes the real face of the `Gujarat model’ promoted by PM Narendra Modi. Observing that youths were joining such groups because of rising unemployment, Yadav said that “in Gujarat, these gau rakshaks say 33 crore gods and goddesses live in the cow. Such superstitions are being spread in this country.”

Source: Attacks on Dalits leave Gujarat government wounded – Times of India

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