 Hello and welcome to International Daily, round up by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from across the world. Our headlines. Minneapolis City Councilor's Pledge to Defund and Dismantle the Police Department. Protests erupt across Brazil against escalation of fascism by Bolsonaro and his supporters. Netanyahu doubles down on annexation plans after protests, but makes no mention of Jordan Valley. We begin with an update from the ongoing protests against police violence and racism in the United States. Members of the Minneapolis City Council announced yesterday their intention to defund and dismantle the city's police department. The announcement was made by nine of the 13 members of the council addressing the protesters in Minneapolis. Alondra Cano, one of the councillors who came out in support of the move, tweeted that the Minneapolis Police Department or the MPD cannot be reformed and insisted on the need to end the current policing system. Council President De Sabenda said that they would work towards replacing the police with a new model of public safety working with the community. The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by four MPD officers have been raising for nearly two weeks across the U.S. If the Minneapolis Council follows through with its promise, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S. Members of Los Angeles and New York have already proposed budget cuts for their respective police departments, but critics have insisted that it is not enough. One of the major demands of the protesters has been defunding and dismantling the police system as it exists instead of reforming it. Meanwhile, protests continue across the country, with big gatherings taking place in major cities. Their strength and intensity has forced many administrations to withdraw or ease curfews that had been put in place to stop the protesters. Over 10,000 people have been arrested so far. In our next story, thousands of protesters return to the streets of Sao Paulo and other parts of Brazil to mobilize against Jair Bolsonaro. The landless workers movement of the MST, which organized a demonstration in Sao Paulo, said that the protests were in response to the escalation of fascism and a defensive democracy. MST also added that the protests will be a wall against the fascist march of Bolsonaro. According to the military police, there were 3,000 people in the protests in Sao Paulo alone. The protests are a continuation of the anti-fascist demonstration that began last week by football fans. In response to right-wing Pol Pro Bolsonaro demonstrations against counter-pandemic measures, fans of rival football groups came together in an anti-fascist protest. The confrontations with the police and pro-bolsino groups led to violent repression of anti-fascist protests. This eventually spiraled into a nationwide protest against the Bolsonaro government and its supporters. Mobilizations were held in cities across the country, including the capital Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador Bahia, Porto Alegre. In Sao Paulo, pro-bolsino protesters called for a military intervention in the country to preserve Bolsonaro's power. And finally, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that his government will go ahead with its decision to annex occupied Palestinian territories. The announcement was made after his meeting with leaders of settlements. This reaffirmation comes a day after massive protests were held across Israel against the annexation plan. The Israeli government plans to formally annex large parts of the occupied West Bank on July 1. Several observers, however, noted that Netanyahu's statements on Sunday were a step down from his earlier proposals regarding the annexation plan. According to his previous statements, his government was planning to annex all the settlements in the entire Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, however, he referred to mentioning the Jordan Valley. Israel is around 450,000 of its citizens living in more than 130 illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories militarily occupied by Israel. On Saturday, thousands of people came out in protests in Tel Aviv. The protests were organized by the left-wing merits party and the communist faction of the pro-Arab joint list along with others. They were also joined by at least one Labour MP who is currently supporting the Netanyahu-led coalition government. In our infocus section, we bring you a segment of a conversation between academic Vijay Prashad and Prof. Nadina Sharub-Kavorkian of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She talks about the killing of Iyad al-Halak, a Palestinian in his 30s some days ago. Halak, who was autistic, was shot and left to die by the Israeli border police. His death sparked protests in the region. There's a lot of news coverage about the death of George Floyd in the United States as there should be. I mean, this man, of course, didn't deserve to be killed. The reaction of the police in the United States is extraordinary against protesters and so on. But around the same time, this young man was shot to death in Jerusalem. Could you talk a little bit about the murder of Iyad al-Halak? Yeah, well, as you said, what went on in the US and what is going on in the US against the black community. The racism, the racialization of the system, the fact that black lives do not matter and the incarceration of blacks is higher than whites. And the whiteness of the system that is there to really dispossess the black community, the history of slavery. So add to all this because, and there, the call for equality. Over here, we're not calling for equality because it's not about equality because the system is not looking at us as equal. The system is really there to affect, to really let go of it. And the case of the killing of Iyad is another case of killing, unfortunately. In the old city, he was on his way to work. This kid is autistic and he was really... And the way, I know him because he used to be with me in community centers where when I gather children, I work with children. I collect letters from children. And he just sits and looks and wonder and then he's such a calm person. And you need to remember that Iyad doesn't speak Hebrew like many Palestinians. It's not because they cannot speak Hebrew. It's because it carries like really emotional burden. Like I have my own husband. Doesn't want to speak Hebrew. Because this is the language of the occupier. So Iyad, like many other Palestinians. So the soldiers and the military in the old city. And it's at the entrance of the Haram Sharif, it's not their area. This is occupied land. This is not their place to be in. And they probably spoke to him in Hebrew and he didn't get it. And his teacher kept on saying that he is disabled. He has this ability. And he doesn't understand, he fears Hebrew. I can tell you because we used to sit in the masquerade. The moment he hears Hebrew, he gets scared and he tries to hide. And they were screaming. And when someone is screaming at you with the rifles, with all the machineries that around them. And he tried to run away and he has on his body here, it's written. That sign, that car that he is a disabled man. And they run after him. They killed him beside the trash cans. It's that wounding that is not the wounding of his body. But it's the body of a general community that knows that in minutes they can kill someone without being sure, without checking, without understanding, without being attentive, without being reminded that they are the occupiers. They are in our areas, not the opposite. This is his way to his work, to his school, not the opposite. And mind you, Vijay, remember that in last September when I was also working with the other case of Naseem Aburumi. Naseem Aburumi, almost same area, 14 year old, 36 kilograms. They just killed him in minutes. So this execution of kids, of people, without thinking. And the argument usually, oh, they're afraid. Well, if you're afraid, don't be here. If you're afraid, just don't come here. Don't be here. You're afraid because you know that the land is stolen, that the area is occupied, otherwise you won't be afraid. And that claim, it's a very sad case because it's Yad, it's Naseem, it's Fatma Hijayji, where not only they kill, they go to the house. They check the house and mess it up. They go to the teacher and she's interrogated for hours. You know, in the case of Naseem Aburumi, they took the body. And we were struggling. I remember visiting the family in Liza, and his mother was begging me. Yeah, please just find a way, let them return my son. His 36 kilogram, his short, his tiny, why did they kill him? And then, and I remember the discussion with the family in their backyard, in their front yard, actually, when his sister, 11-year-old told me, because we were discussing how can we convince the Israelis to return the body, as in the case of Yad, because not only they kill, then you need to ask the Israelis to bring the body back, to give him the proper farewell, to allow the family to have a closure, to comprehend and understand. And with the case of Naseem, you know, we needed to go to court. And the court is in Jerusalem. And his father is an ex-political prisoner, so he was unable to go to the court. And of course, his mother can't cross. And his sister came to me and she's like, but doctor, they killed him. Why do we need, how can they try a dead body? So when you think about it, how those kids are able to comprehend the marking of the dead body, even the marking, the mere rioting over the dead body, as unwanted as otherwise. In the case of Yad, they knew that it was all on camera. And you know, technology is playing to our hand, because again, remember, the old city is packed with cameras. And people are all with cell phones, like the case of George Floyd. You know, this is what happened. In the case of Muhammad Abu Khdeir before, it was the camera of one of the shops that saved us and allowed us to know that somebody kidnapped him. Because at first, the Israeli news said, oh, he's gay and the family killed him. And these are honor crimes. So even, you know, collecting evidence is really curved by the entire system. So with the case of Nassim Abroumou, we really needed to go to court. And I was struggling, but then they decided, no need to come to court, they would release the body. And then the struggle of getting the body, not frozen, in a proper manner, that the family can really pay the farewell is another story. With Yad, the entire Israeli system wanted to show the family, because we're talking here about an autistic kid, that they do understand the family and they think it's a mistake. Or, you know, this is the one bad apple. Yeah, it's not the system. It's that one bad apple. And they wanted to go and pay their condolences and think about the Palestinian family that just lost a child, that needs to be kind and nice to those good Israelis, including the mayor of Jerusalem, Moshe Leon, and including others that wanted to go and to pay their condolences. And the mess around the two days ago, I don't know, it was yesterday night that one of the Knesset members went there and there was a big fight and Palestinians were hit him and he ended up in the hospital and so many people are under arrest. So the condition Jerusalem is this slow violence that is always there. And there's this, you know, real strong violence that you see it all over the area. And because I work, you know, my book on unchilding, the new book, it's called Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding. I really talk about unchilding because if you compare it to other settler colonial contexts, like in Canada or the US, the aim was, you know, to kill the Indian and save the child. Over here, it's not the case. It's about the child is considered unchilded, a dangerous terrorist born criminal other that should be killed in different ways. So either you suffocate them economically, you demolish their houses, you do not give them the ID and you revoke their citizenship. So it's a different system of dispossession that is hard at work in every single aspect of life over here in education. And it's sometimes it's in those benevolent modes. It's in the name of saving and caring, like the case of Yad where everybody wants to go and pay their condolences. And, you know, just leave the family alone, let them comprehend what goes on. Yeah, it's a sad situation. And if you talk to shop owners here, and this is what I do when I go grocery shopping in the old city every day or every two days, is that situation is so sad. They were all with the Quranic versions and with the Adam because they were afraid of not, you know, they can't show their anger and their agony and the pain. So the best way is to put the Adam, to put them as in and the prayer to show that there is a sense of mourning. So they can't fight the music and them and the prayers. But it's a very sad condition. That's all we have in this episode of the International Lady Roundup. We'll be back tomorrow with news developments from across the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.