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(hpd) „Die antisemitische Aufhetzung muslimischer Jugendlicher, die sich in Frankreich, Belgien, den Niederlanden und Großbritannien noch radikaler als in Deutschland vollzieht, stellt nur die sichtbare Spitze eines Eisberges dar. Das darunter liegende Massiv entzieht sich unserem Blick: Der Antisemitismus in…
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“This well-constructed piece of anti-Israel propaganda ought not to offend any partisan of the Israeli cause. For three reasons: In the first place because the very existence of this film is proof that Israel is a vibrant democracy with nothing…
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http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=272605 Both Judeophobes and Judeophiles agree that Jews are smart, but when it comes to thwarting anti-Semitism, Jews can be pretty dumb. In 2004, Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky attempted to convene the heads of Israeli universities to devise counter-strategies…
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Bostom, an associate professor of medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, has compiled a large collection of documents concerning jihad in his voluminous The Legacy of Jihad. Bostom’s book amply documents the systematic and destructive character of Islamic jihad, refuting the…
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http://buecher.hagalil.com/sonstiges/gensicke.htm Der Wissenschaftlichen Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt und der Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur ist zu danken, das Klaus Gensicke seine Dissertation aktualisiert und überarbeitet veröffentlichen konnte. In seinem Vorwort schreibt Matthias Küntzel: „Gensickes Buch zwingt uns eingeschliffene Denkmuster…
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Why is the Middle East so at odds with modern life, laggard in everything from literacy to standard of living, from military prowess to political development? A profound new book by Philip Carl Salzman, professor at McGill University, with the…
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Editors Note: In an effort for colleagues in the SPME Network to keep each other informed of relevant work to our mission, we have inaugurated this peer driven service. We encourage our faculty network subscribers to submit their review and…
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[ SPME Faculty Forum is pleased to inaugurate its Book Review Feature. Professor Emeritus Stanley Waterman, Department of Geography, University of Haifa Reviews Oren Yittachel’s Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine, University of Pennsylvania Press. September, 2006. If you are…
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