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☆ Palestinian American's Stabbing in Texas Meets Hate Crime Definition, Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Kanishka Singh(Reuters) - The stabbing of a Palestinian-American man in Austin, Texas, over the weekend meets the definition of a hate crime and local prosecutors will determine charges, Austin police said on Wednesday. War in Israel and Gaza View All 194 ImagesA police statement on Wednesday said the police Hate Crimes Review Committee had determined the incident met the definition of a hate crime. It said local prosecutors will determine any further charges. Israel has responded with a ground and air attack on Hamas-ruled Gaza, killing more than 27,000 people, according to the local Palestinian health ministry. Previous U.S. incidents include a November shooting of three students of Palestinian descent in Vermont and the fatal October stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American in Illinois.

Persons: Kanishka Singh, Austin, Bert James Baker, Baker, Nizar Doar, Israel, Howard Goller Organizations: Islamic Relations, CAIR Locations: Palestinian, Austin , Texas, Israel, Gaza, U.S, Vermont, Illinois, Washington

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The stabbing of a 23-year-old Palestinian American who advocates say was attacked near the University of Texas campus while riding in a truck displaying support for Palestine merits the label of a hate crime, Austin police announced Wednesday. Police said Wednesday that their Hate Crimes Review Committee had determined that the stabbing met the definition of a hate crime. A fight ensued, with Baker eventually pulling out a knife and stabbing Doar in the rib, the affidavit said. In Vermont in November, three college students of Palestinian descent were shot and seriously wounded while taking an evening walk in an attack that authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. He was charged with a hate crime after police and relatives said he singled out the victims because of their faith.

Persons: Bert James Baker, Doar, Baker Organizations: University of Texas, Austin, Police, Islamic, Palestine, Jewish, Hamas Locations: AUSTIN, Texas, Palestine, Travis, Israel, Gaza, Vermont, Illinois

And if we say, ‘This is my land,’ they start to shoot live.” Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in southern Israel, violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has intensified. Extremist Israeli settlers have been emboldened in what Palestinians say is an increased effort to seize their land with support from the Israeli Army. On Oct. 13, Sami Hourani’s cousin Zacharia al-Adara was shot and wounded by an Israeli settler in the Palestinian village of at-Tuwani. In 2012, Israel’s Security Agency accused him of leading covert and violent activity against Palestinians, and he was temporarily banned from entering the West Bank. In the past seven weeks alone, the U.N. says more than 1,000 villagers have been forced to leave their homes due to settler violence across the West Bank.

Persons: ’, Sami, Zacharia al, Adara, Zacharia, Zvi, He’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dalal al, Awad, They’ve Organizations: West Bank, Israeli Army, Observers, Israel’s Security Agency Locations: Israel, Palestinian, Zacharia, Tuba, Ma’on

☆ Opinion: Where the war goes from here
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. The war plays out on everyone’s screens, forcing people to confront cruelty and killing and to fear what comes next. “Hamas’ mission is, by definition, to end Israel, not to seek to establish a self-governed Palestinian state that peacefully coexists alongside the Jewish state. “An Israeli normalization deal with Saudi Arabia — the location of the two holiest sites in Islam — would be hugely symbolic and have real security benefits for Israel,” wrote Peter Bergen. “After all, almost exactly half a century ago, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, two Arab states, Egypt and Syria, attacked Israel.

Persons: CNN —, ”, Jonathan Glover, Frida Ghitis, “, Ghitis, Amy Klein, goer Gal Katz, Gal Katz, that’s, ’ ” Katz, ” “, Yulie Ben Ami, ” Ben Ami, Stephanie Griffith, ’, … ”, Israel, Janine Zacharia, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Ilan Troen's, Deborah, Shlomi Mathias, Ilan Troen S, Ilan Troen, Symon Petliura’s banditim, Troen, Deborah Mathias, Yahya Hassouna, Omar Ghraieb, Carrie Cordero, ” Cordero, Islam —, Peter Bergen, Jason Greenblatt, Trump, Fatah, Rachel Fish, ’ ” Fish, Kara Alaimo, McCarthy Drew Sheneman, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Julian Zelizer, Jordan, John Boehner, James Antle III, McCarthy’s gavel, John Avlon, Clay Jones, Sallie Krawcheck, Sado, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Joe Biden, “ Kennedy, ” Bergen, Kennedy, Jack Ohman, Jill Filipovic, Gavin Newsom’s, Sarah Gundle, Bob Saget’s, isn’t, Sara Stewart, Julia Ormond’s, Keldy Ortiz, Dr, Lara Freidenfelds, … Simone Biles Simone Biles, Yves Herman, Simone Biles, Amy Bass, ” Bass, “ Biles, Biles Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Ben, Gurion University, Brandeis University, Getty, “ Hamas, Foreign Intelligence, Israel, Twitter, Palestinian Authority, West Bank, Harvard University, Higher, Republicans, House Republicans, GOP, Federal Reserve, RFK Jr, Democratic, White, Republican, Biden, Trump, Democrat, Agency Locations: British, Rwanda, Bosnia, Israel, Gaza, New York, America, “, Kippur, Kibbutz Holit, Derazhne, Rovno, Rivne, Poland, Ukraine, Europe, Gaza City, AFP, Palestinian, Saudi Arabia, Israeli, Islam, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Victoria Sado, Antwerp, Tokyo, Belgium

☆ Opinion: In times of crisis, Israelis rally around their leaders. This time is different
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Janine Zacharia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

In the entire nearly five years of the second Palestinian intifada from 2000 to 2005, roughly 1,000 Israelis were killed. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images Israeli soldiers work on a tank at the border between Israel and Gaza on October 9. Ahmad Hasballah/Getty Images Rockets launched from Gaza are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system on October 8. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of Palestinians killed on Saturday, October 7, mourn at the morgue of a hospital in Gaza. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images An Israeli soldier stands by the bodies of Israelis killed by Palestinian militants in Sderot on October 7.

Persons: Janine Zacharia, CNN —, partygoers, “ Nissim, —, Segal, Alon Ben, David, Gil Tamary, haven’t, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Yitzhak Rabin, ”, Netanyahu, Bibi, ’, Ilai Bar Sade, Erik Marmor, Ali Jadallah, Mohammed Abed, Oren Ziv, Mohammed Saber, Ronen Zvulun, Majdi, Ilia Yefimovich, Ramez Mahmoud, Mahmud Hams, Roi Levy, Alleruzzo, Tali Touito, Tamir Kalifa, Fatima Shbair, Khan, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Oded, Jalaa Marey, Ahmad Hasballah, Amir Cohen, Samar Abu, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Tsafrir, Ahmad Gharabli, Baz Ratner, Mustafa Hassona, Ilan Rosenberg, Eyad Baba, Itai Ron, Hadas Parush, Avi Dichter, Amir Avivi, I’ve, “, ” Netanyahu, ” Eitan Ben Eliyahu Organizations: Stanford University’s Department of Communication, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Reuters, CNN, Israel’s Army Radio, ’ Telegram, Channel, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian, Israel, ” Military, Popular Front, Liberation, Palestine, Anadolu Agency, Getty, West Bank, New York Times, Sunday, Rockets, Israel's, United Nations, Reuters Police, AP, Reuters Rockets, Shin, Gaza, IDF, The Washington Post Locations: Washington, Washington Post Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Gaza, Kippur, Lebanon, Ukraine, Sderot, Kiryat Shemona, Netanya, Tel Aviv, Gaza City, AFP, Palestinian, Beitar Ilit, Mount Herzl, Ashkelon, Ramat Gan, Khan Younis, Israeli, Kiryat Shmona, Samar, Samar Abu Elouf, Itai, Beit Hanun, Rishon Lezion, Manhattan, Shejaiya, Entebbe, Uganda, America

☆ Bidi Bidi, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, is getting a groundbreaking new arts center
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The Bidi Bidi Music & Arts Centre, which is currently under construction, will be a low-slung, light-filled brick and steel amphitheater that also houses an acoustic recording studio and music classroom. As the global refugee population has soared in recent years, reaching over 35 million in 2022, some temporary camps like Bidi Bidi have transitioned into permanent city-like settlements. The Bidi Bidi settlement quickly reached maximum capacity in 2016 and has since transitioned into a permanent settlement. But beyond practical use and sustainability, De Kestelier wants Bidi Bidi residents to have a new building that feels like their own. “When people give it a name, they own it more.”Erezenio is hopeful that Bidi Bidi, and other settlements like it, will see more projects that provide refugees with “tools for success” in addition to more immediate needs.

Persons: Bidi, Bidi Bidi, Hassell, LocalWorks, Hassell Xavier De Kestelier, ”, De Kestelier, Zex, Nachson Mimran, Mawa Zacharia Erezenio, Erezenio, Sina Loketa, To.org, there’s, De, that’s, ” De Kestelier, “, Kestelier Organizations: CNN, & Arts Centre, London, Records Locations: Yumbe, South, Kampala, stoke, Kyebando, Bidi, South Sudan, Ghent, Belgium

☆ Thomas Zacharia Knows the Power of Innovation
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Thomas Zacharia describes his story as uniquely American. When he came to the U.S. from India in 1981, he had a degree in mechanical engineering and $8 in his pocket. Today he runs Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), America’s largest science and energy laboratory, overseeing more than 6,000 staffers and an annual budget of more than $2.4 billion. “To be leading such a prestigious, history-making organization is unthinkable in any other country for an immigrant,” he says over video from his office in Oak Ridge, Tenn.At the end of the year, Dr. Zacharia, 65, will retire after 35 years at ORNL, which was founded as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. When he assumed the top job in 2017, he was inspired by the lab’s history as a place where scientists from all over the world came to invent the nuclear-reactor technology that helped to win the war, generate new energy sources and enable new insights into the fundamental laws of the universe.

☆ Alertă în Indonezia. În jur de 3.000 de persoane au fost nevoite să-şi părăsească locuinţele după eruperea vulcanului Lewotolo
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

În jur de 3.000 de persoane au fost nevoite să-şi părăsească locuinţele după eruperea vulcanului Lewotolo, din centrul Indoneziei. Erupţia nu a provocat victime şi nici pagube materiale, dar autorităţile au ridicat nivelul de alertă la 2, avertizând asupra unor posibile scurgeri de lavă. "Toată lumea a început să strige şi să fugă în toate părţile pentru a se salva. La început am crezut că este un cutremur, după asta a început o ploaie cu pietre vulcanice. La sfârşitul anului 2018, un vulcan, intrat în erupţie, a provocat o alunecare de teren, care a declanşat un tsunami.

Locations: Lewotolo, Indoneziei, Indonezia

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