Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Indictment For Genocide

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/07/15/indictment_for_genocide/ WHEN THE chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court presented evidence yesterday in support of an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, he touched off a clash between two principles. The bedrock of the ICC is…

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More Darfur Posturing

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617393073456841.html The International Criminal Court’s decision to seek an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Bashir is being hailed in the usual places as a landmark in the effort to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. In fact, the indictment is…

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Jonathan Schanzer: PARC’s Anti-Israel Polemics

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTc5YzYyMDI4MTE3ZTU0ZTE4MWYzMzI5NmMxZDdiMjU = For more than a decade, the allocation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. funded doctoral and post-doctoral grants on Palestinian issues has been decided by a group of Middle Eastern-studies professors that includes some of the…

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: Der Iran und der 9. Juli

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/64/11011+berlin+geschichten+aus+dem+reichstag/80230/der+iran+und+der+9+juli Am 9. Juli 1999 demonstrierten iranische Studenten für Pressefreiheit, Demokratie und Menschenrechte. Die Demonstrationen wurden brutal niedergeschlagen. Im Vorfeld des 9. Juli 2008 herrschte ein Klima der Angst und des Schreckens an den Universitäten. Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad wurde bei den…

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Tony Badran: Lebanon’s Militia Wars

http://www.meriajournal.com/en/asp/journal/2008/june/badran/index.asp Lebanon’s civil war was a complex, multisided battle whose implications still shape the country’s politics today. This article analyzes the forces involved domestically and the course of the war, drawing lessons that apply to the contemporary situation in Lebanon.…

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Alfred H. Moses: From Durban I to Durban II: Preventing Poisonous Anti-Semitism

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=2312&TTL=From_Durban_I_to_Durban_II:_Preventing_Poisonous_Anti-Semitism The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban in 2001 quickly became a new form of Passion Play with the Palestinian people as the victim and the Jewish state of Israel as the crucifier.…

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Thomas W. Lippman: Iran Won’t Go Away, the Saudis Realize

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=93892 Saudi Arabia has been a strategic ally of the United States for more than 60 years. Despite occasional differences, Riyadh was a firm – and generous – partner in the implementation of American policy during the Cold War and…

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Israel Is ‘Canceled’ in Berlin

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121538153156830807.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Iranian calls for the destruction of Israel are almost routine these days. But for a former official of the Islamic Republic to call for the destruction of the Jewish state in the city where the Holocaust was planned adds…

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: Medienhetze gegen Christen im Iran

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/79270/medienhetze+gegen+christen+im+iran Iranische Muslime, die Christen werden, sind in Gefahr, weil sie als Apostaten gezählt werden. Farsnews, die Militärkreisen nahe steht, veröffentlichte eine vierteilige Serie über wachsende christliche Gemeinden und wie man diesen begegnen müsse. Es sind keine khomeinistischen von einem…

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