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Twice in one week, humanitarian gestures at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba have saved Palestinian children from Gaza who have no medical insurance. A seven-year-old girl suffered second- and third-degree burns over a third of her body after she was…
read moreIn a talk on April 28 organized by UB’s Graduate Group in Marxist Studies, visiting speaker Norman Finkelstein set out to demonize Israel using the following interpretive strategy. First, always refer to the “Israel-Palestine” conflict, never to the broader enmity…
read moreDear Prof. Bloom,In the first paragraph of your response to my inquiry, you wrote “I have examined the issues, namely: the relation of IHLRI to the mission of the Program, the procedures and scope of input into IHLRI content, and…
read moreFrom Gerald Steinberg: UNISON – is a major UK trade union with 1.5 million members, specializingin healthcare related professions. Its recent general membershippublication includes the attached highly offensive article on the“wailingwall”, which cites a notoriously anti-Israel NGO known as MAP.…
read moreLetter to the Editors Comments on `Palestinian refugee conditions associated with intestinalparasites and diarrhoea: Nuseirat refugee camp as a case study’ by T.A. AbuMourad (Public Health 2004; 118:131-42) Laura RosenSchool of Public Health, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and Gerald M.…
read moreMilitant Islamists are forming a twisted alliance with Europe’s left to spread virulent anti-Semitism that targets both Jews and America. One of the few certainties of the 20th century was that the apostles of Marxist materialism and the adherents of…
read moreI was fortunate to visit many places in Judea and Samaria, but one place I did not see was Hebron. “Too dangerous,” I was told, which only increased my admiration for the Jewish communities there. In a land replete with…
read moreSince his arrest on November 29, 2003, Bangladeshi journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, has been hauled before the court more than half a dozen times. Each time, the result was the same. Choudhury was returned to prison for “interrogation,” with…
read moreAuthor’s Note: When I wrote Ed Beck (and he wrote the Board) about my Bangladeshi friend and colleague, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, it was suggested I write an original piece for SPME members. Mr. Choudhury’s goal is to pierce the…
read moreNo people has been maligned more than have the Jews-no people. It’s not even close. It has been widespread-encompassing locations with little or no Jews-and millennia-long-going back at least to Tacitus. Most of major social institutions, including governments and all…
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