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SvennoJ on 06 February 2024
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UK MP asks FM for details on ‘flimsy’ Israeli report on UNRWA

Tommy Sheppard, an MP with the Scottish National Party, has sent a letter to UK Foreign Minister David Cameron asking if the UK government suspended aid to UNRWA based exclusively on an Israeli dossier.

Several outlets have reported that the dossier, which formed the basis for Israeli allegations that a handful of UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 attack, includes no evidence for those claims. “I urge you to review the decision made to suspend funding in light of the revelations surrounding the 6-page document and resume support for UNRWA while it carries out its internal investigation,” the letter concludes.





US Education Department to investigate rights claim against Harvard

A statement from the rights group The Muslim Legal Fund of America says that the department responded to a complaint it filed against Harvard University last week, alleging that the institution failed to protect students from “harassment, intimidation, and threats based solely on their status as Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and supporters of Palestinian rights”.

“In recent months, students endured harassment while attending vigils for Palestine, physical assaults while walking to the library, doxxing on campus, stalking by classmates, and racial profiling by professors,” the statement says. “Students who reported the harassment to Harvard administrators received slow and ineffective responses and often met with closed doors, and in some cases threats to limit or retract their future academic opportunities,” it continued.

Numerous incidents of harassment against Palestinian and Arab citizens of the US have been reported since Hamas’s October 7 attacks against Israel. In late November last year, three Palestinian university students were shot in Vermont.

Texas police investigating stabbing of Palestinian man as possible bias crime

Police in Austin, Texas, have said that they are probing the stabbing of a 23-year-old Palestinian-American man over the weekend as a possible “bias-motivated incident”. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said that a man identified by police as Bert James Baker approached a Muslim family in their car at a stop sign as they were on their way back from a rally in solidarity with Palestine, shouting obscenities and trying to rip a “Free Palestine” flag from their vehicle.

The victim, identified by his father as Zacharia Doar, was trying to stop him when Baker allegedly stabbed him in the chest. He underwent surgery and is now recovering, according to his father. “The entire Austin Muslim community stands in solidarity with these young members of our community, who appear to be the latest victims of a surge in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate across our nation,” CAIR Austin chapter’s board chair, Fayyaz Shah, said in a television interview.