Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

www.fpri.org Distributed Exclusively via Fax & Email Kenneth Pollack is Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution. He is an expert on national security, military affairs, and the Persian Gulf. He was Director for…

http://www.meriajournal.com/en/asp/journal/2008/september/spyer/index.asp Deeply embedded in Palestinian nationalism is the notion that Israeli Jewish identity is analogous to that of communities born of European colonialism, which are not seen as having legitimate claim to self-determination. No reconsidering of this characterization took place…

Disclaimer: SPME is publishing this article by Juan Cole, Prof. of History at the University of Michigan, for the purposes of academic information and public discussion only and not with any direct or indirect endorsement of its contents. The views…

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20136809&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8 This is a column about one of the strangest phenomena I have ever encountered. It is almost the opposite of another strange phenomenon I have written about often, even as it is ignored by the mainstream media-the worldwide persecution…

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/90759/besorgniserregendes+strafgesetz Eine Neuauflage der islamischen Strafgesetzgebung ist im iranischen “Parlament” in der ersten Runde mit einer absoluten Mehrheit ratifiziert worden. Abtrünnige sollen hingerichtet werden dürfen. Das Leben von Hunderttausenden ist in Gefahr. Wie die staatliche iranische Nachrichtenagentur IRNA berichtete, wurde…

http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1218660559678.shtml Das iranische Parlament hat das Strafrecht der islamischen Republik in mehreren Punkten verschärft. So sollen Muslime, die zu einer anderen Religion übertreten, hingerichtet werden. Auch die Diskriminierung von Frauen wurde gefestigt. ***** Das iranische Parlament hat eine Reform des…

Supporters of Israel are intensely interested in which of two presidential candidates, John McCain or Barack Obama, is “best” for the Jewish state. Of course, “best” is an inherently subjective concept, colored by whether one regards settlements as beneficial or…