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Participants in the roundtable gave Pres. Obama’s Cairo speech mixed reviews, praising it for trying to improve relations with the Muslim world but calling it “a conversation more than a commitment” (Mark T. Kimmitt), aspirational but lacking any promises to…
read moreEsha Momeni, an Iranian graduate student at California State University-Northridge, has been released from detention on bail. Momeni, 28, was arrested Oct. 15 for an alleged traffic violation after filming a documentary on the movement for equal rights for women…
read moreIsrael at 60: Aspects from History And the Present*) SPME Austria has organized a lecture series at the University of Vienna next fall and winter to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. The series,…
read moreThe Southern Poverty Law Center, well-known for its studies of the Klan and other racist movements, has released a report on the rise of anti-Semitism, including Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theories, on West-coast campuses: http://www.splcenter.org/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=952. In addition to incidents…
read moreOn May 21st the court dismissed charges against Philippe Karsenty, the head of the media watchdog Media Ratings, who had been sentenced at a lower court decision for having libeled France 2 and its Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin when he…
read moreLeaders of Jewish student groups at UC-Irvine expressed support for Chancellor Drake’s response to anti-semitism at UC-Irvine, while other current and former students released a statement voicing their deep concern at the Chancellor’s failure to act decisively to condemn anti-Semitic…
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