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Book fair in Italy thrown into emotional debate over Israel’s role at event
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/15/europe/turin.php ROME: The decision to select Israel as guest of honor at this spring’s International Book Fair in Turin has set off a furious debate among Italian, Israeli and Arab authors and intellectuals, including calls to boycott the event. Critics of the choice say that offering such an honor at the opening of the fair…

Anti-Semitism is so rampant at the University of California-Irvine that Jewish students should avoid enrolling, a new report says.
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An unaffiliated task force made up of Jewish residents of Irvine conducted 80 hours of interviews with students, faculty and residents and determined that anti-Semitic acts are “real and well documented” on campus, according to an article in the local Daily Pilot. “Jewish students have been harassed. Hate speech has been unrelenting,” the report alleges.…

LIBRARIANS FOR FAIRNESS SEEKS TO DOCUMENT DAMAGE TO ISRAELI LIBRARIES BY TERRORIST ATTACKS
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FLA (the International Federation of Library Associations) will be holding a conference in late March-early April at the so-called Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies. As you are well aware, there are those within our profession who are much-interested in unfairly demonizing Israel. The forthcoming conference will likely do that on a larger, more intensive…

NGOs promote “Israeli Apartheid Week”
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http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?viewall=yes&id=1801 War on Want, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Keshev, I’lam and ICAHD, (whose funders include the EU, Finnish and British governments, and NIF ), are joining a number of extremist NGOs to promote “Israeli Apartheid week.” Israeli Apartheid week (IAW) was first held in Canada in 2004. In 2008 it encompasses events in Canada, Mexico,…