Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Khaled Abu Toameh: How To Help the Palestinians

http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/06/how-to-help-the-palestinian-people.php The leaders of the Palestinian Authority do not want the international community to hear anything about massive abuse of human rights and intimidation of journalists that its security forces are practicing almost on a daily basis in the West…

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Yves Pallade: “New” Anti-Semitism in Contemporary German Academia

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=625&PID=0&IID=3018&TTL=%22New%22_Anti-Semitism_in_Contemporary_German_Academia “Anti-Semitism, contained in anti- Israelism or anti-Zionism, like thunder in the cloud, has once again become honorable.” [1] It is one of the bitter ironies of the dialectics of modernity that the very sphere of science and academia, the…

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Claudia Rosett: Where’s The U.N. On Iran?

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/24/wheres-united-nations-iran-opinions-columnists-ban-ki-moon.html People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Iran? The U.N. is the self-styled overlord of…

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Elliott Abrams: Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588743827950599.html # Despite fervent denials by Obama administration officials, there were indeed agreements between Israel and the United States regarding the growth of Israeli settlements on the West Bank. As the Obama administration has made the settlements issue a major…

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Michael Rubin: Iran, Technology and Revolution

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/06/iran-technology-and-revolution/ The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post have dubbed it a “Twitter Revolution,” speculating about whether new technology will enable Iranian protesters to overcome government forces. The role of technology in the current unrest is well-covered elsewhere.…

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Conference: Hamas, the Gaza War and Accountability under International Law

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=452&PID=3020 Session One: The Limitations of International Law in Handling the War on Terrorism Chairman: Adv. Sigall Horovitz, Legal Officer, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; PhD Candidate, Hebrew UniversityDaniel Taub, Director, General Law Division, Ministry of Foreign AffairsProf. Yoram Dinstein,…

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Dan Izenberg: Legal Experts Say Int’l Law Will Adjust to War Against Terrorism

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184911422&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Three key speakers at a conference on international law and terrorism last week in Jerusalem said Israel must continue to abide by international law and that the law will eventually adjust itself according to the real-world experiences and…

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Michael Theodoulou: In Times of Trouble, Iran Pins Blame on Old Foes

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090624/FOREIGN/706239830/1002 The embattled Iranian regime is orchestrating a campaign to scapegoat “the perverted government” of Britain and other western powers for its worst crisis since the founding of the Islamic republic in 1979. The invective has mostly been aimed at…

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Fouad Ajami: Obama’s Persian Tutorial

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124563005022735881.html President Barack Obama did not “lose” Iran. This is not a Jimmy Carter moment. But the foreign-policy education of America’s 44th president has just begun. Hitherto, he had been cavalier about other lands, he had trusted in his own…

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