July 15, 2021
The Biden administration and some Republicans in Congress are at odds over the Iran nuclear deal negotiations following an alleged Iranian intelligence plot to kidnap an American journalist in New York.
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said President Joe Biden should not make any deals with Iran given its actions.
“This is a regime that holds American hostages and is actively trying to kidnap an American from the streets of New York,” said McCaul in a statement Tuesday, also referencing US citizens incarcerated in Iran. “President Biden should not enter into any deals with Iran without an end to these assaults on our citizens.”
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Senior U.S. government officials and politicians denounced China on Wednesday for alleged genocide against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities, taking aim at Beijing’s policies at the inaugural International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington.
The three-day event, which began Tuesday, addressed religious persecution around the world, but has focused heavily on China’s targeting of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in a crackdown on the minority group and its language, religion, and culture that intensified in 2017.
“The Uyghur community faces an existential threat from Beijing, which is a challenge to our own conscience,” said Nancy Pelosi, U.S. speaker of the House of Representatives and a Democratic congresswoman from California, said in prerecorded video remarks.
Birzeit University students visit the demolished home of Muntasir Shalabi in Turmus Ayya on July 14, 2021. (Courtesy)
The IDF said it arrested dozens of Hamas activists Wednesday after they paid a solidarity visit to the West Bank village of a Palestinian man accused of killing an Israeli student.
In a joint operation with Border Police and the Shin Bet security service, Israeli security forces raided two buses full of Palestinian university students as they were making their way out of Turmus Ayya. The students taken into custody had visited the home of Montasir Shalabi, which the IDF demolished last week as part of its controversial policy aimed at deterring future attacks.
By Patrick Goodenough | July 14, 2021 | 4:22am EDT
A paramilitary police officer at the entrance of at ice hockey arena in Beijing that will be used during the 2022 Winter Olympics. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The world said “never again” after the Holocaust, but 80 years later, with genocide determined to be happening in China’s Xinjiang region, the world is preparing to celebrate next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, a rally on the National Mall heard on Tuesday.
“We said ‘never again,’” said Women’s Rights Without Frontiers president Reggie Littlejohn, one of the rally organizers. “What does ‘never again’ mean?”
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