http://hnn.us/articles/43602.html Mr. Cravatts, Ph.D., director of Boston University’s Program in Book and Magazine Publishing at the Center for Professional Education, writes frequently on terrorism, higher education, politics, culture, law, marketing, and housing, and is currently writing a book about the…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/42991/iran+die+zerrissene+gesellschaft?print=1 Während einige Hundert Studenten auf einer Demonstration Demokratie und Menschenrechte forderten und Ahmadinejad als „Faschisten” bezeichneten, verbrannten am Al-Quds-Tag Tausende von Iranern israelische und amerikanische Fahnen. Studenten protestieren für Demokratie und Menschenrechte Eigentlich wollte Präsident Ahmadinejad mit den Studenten…
read moreWhatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found. (University of Wisconsin Board…
read moreURL: http://www.nysun.com/article/63835 While the appearances President Ahmadinejad made at both Columbia University and the United Nations dominated press reports last week, there was another meeting at a chapel across from the General Assembly that the Iranian president held last week…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/64/11011+berlin+geschichten+aus+dem+reichstag/41755/iran+steinigung+als+staatsgesetz Mohammad Javad Larijani ist Vorsitzender des „Menschenrechtsstabes der iranischen Justiz”. Er besteht darauf, dass die Strafe der Steinigung weder Folter noch unangemessen sei. Er begründet dies damit, dass die Strafe der Steinigung auf einem religiösen Gesetz beruhe und in…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/opinion/04cohen.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin A few years back, at the height of the jingoistic post-9/11 wave, the dirtiest word in the American political lexicon was “liberal.” Everyone from President Bush to Ann Coulter was using it to denote wimplike, Volvo-driving softies too spineless…
read moreThe cancellation of the Palestinian academics’ UK speaking tour amounts to censorship and bullying, writes Amjad Barham http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2181968,00.html Palestinian academics received with dismay, although not entirely with surprise, the decision by the University and College Union (UCU) to cancel their…
read moreThe Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyBy John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 484 pp., $26) In October 2002, Osama bin Laden issued a statement in which he analyzed America’s inexhaustible number of sins and prescribed…
read morehttp://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/article/63 Why does the Arab world blame an insidious Jewish cabal for America’s anti-terrorist or anti-autocratic policies in the Middle East? There are many reasons, ranging from jihadist ideology to vitriolic state-run media. The book The Israel Lobby by professors…
read morehttp://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2007/09/the-end-of-the-.html The decision by the UCU’s Strategy and Finance Committee to end all consideration of an academic boycott of Israel is a welcome event well worth celebrating. The fact that the UCU has acted in response to advice from the…
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