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Commencement season rarely passes without incident.In a bit of counterprogramming, last week the actress Michelle Yeoh addressed Harvard Law School's Class of 2023, talking about leaping off high perches into scary voids.Nevertheless, it was a Yemeni immigrant named Fatima Mousa Mohammed, speaking to her graduating class of the City University of New York School of Law, whose words absent the genre's heavy-handed metaphors if not the heavy hand itself left a more powerful impression on the news cycle.

In spring 2021, Saadah Masoud traveled to a pro-Israel rally in Manhattan, asked a man wearing a necklace with a large Star of David whether he was Jewish and then punched him in the face.About two weeks later, Mr. Masoud, 29, of Staten Island, threatened a Jewish man with whom he had argued previously at a Black Lives Matter event.

As the Khoswan family slept, the Israeli military dropped three GBU-39 bombs into their sixth-floor apartment.One of the bombs exploded just outside the parents' bedroom, leaving the apartment looking as if a tornado had swept through, killing three family members.But they were not the stated target of the attack earlier this month.

Cafe Yafa continues a rich Palestinian literary culture, decades after the Nakba destroyed the libraries of Palestine.Jaffa Jaffa will be a Jewish city Allowing Arabs to return to Jaffa would not be righteousness but stupidity, David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary in June 1948.Israel's first prime minister, who arrived in Palestine at Jaffa port in 1910, was writing after right-wing Irgun forces razed Jaffa in April and expelled nearly 70,000 Palestinian residents.

The Israeli military carried out airstrikes in the Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza on Wednesday, saying that it was hitting the rocket-launching infrastructure of the militant group Islamic Jihad.Sirens later sounded in southern Israel as the military said that rockets had been launched from Gaza.

Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who had been on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison for 87 days to protest his detention, died early Tuesday, according to his lawyer and Palestinian and Israeli officials.It was Mr. Adnan, 44, who helped usher in the practice of individual hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners, conducting a 66-day strike in 2011 that inspired others to use it as a means of protesting Israel's incarceration of Palestinians, especially the practice of administrative detention.

FIFA has removed Indonesia as host after the island of Bali refused to host Israel for tournament draw; new host to be announced soon.Indonesia has been stripped of the right to host the Under-20 football World Cup, FIFA has said in a statement after protests against Israel's participation led to the cancellation of the tournament's main draw.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Danny Hajjar has always been surrounded by Arabic music.He grew up in the U.S., but his parents are both Lebanese immigrants who had it on all the time.DANNY HAJJAR: So it's really intrinsic to who I am and to everything that I enjoy and try to do.CHANG: Over the last few years, he started to notice that this music was permeating through American pop culture in a different way.

By Daniel Sokatch-
Just before the new year, the most hardline, ethno-nationalist government in Israel's history took power.The list of new government officials is a rogues' gallery of extremists.Until recently, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was once convicted of supporting a terrorist organization, hung a portrait in his living room of an Israeli who murdered 29 Palestinians as they prayed.

Humanitarian groups caring for 1,000 rescued migrants aboard three ships in the central Mediterranean are sounding an alarm about deteriorating conditions, but so far Italy's new far-right-led government has not responded to requests for a safe port as it hardens its position against rescue boats.The country's new interior minister, Matteo Piantedosi, has already set the groundwork to ban humanitarian ships from its ports, while appealing to countries whose flags the rescue ships fly to take on the migrants and relieve the burden on Italy.

HUWARA, West Bank  As an Israeli Army front-end loader approached, the Palestinian mayor tried one last time to stop the soldiers from blocking an intersection in Huwara, his town in the northern West Bank.The soldiers were unmoved: They said a Palestinian child from Huwara had thrown a stone at a passing Israeli bus.

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial, at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin in May.Majdi Mohammed/AP JERUSALEM  The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Israel confirmed Monday, condemning the probe as a "grave mistake" and vowing not to cooperate.