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Jan-Philipp Hein: Linkspartei: Ein Problem namens Israel

http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/621412.html Immer wieder haben Mitglieder der Linkspartei einseitig gegen Israel gehetzt – dann ist Gregor Gysi mit einer Rede dazwischen gegrätscht, die auch seinen Partner Oskar Lafontaine unter Druck setzt. Nun ist der Streit offen entbrannt. Gregor Gysi, ein brillanter…

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Colin Shindler: Left Bank to West Bank

http://www.progressonline.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=2777 Israel has not been the political flavour of the month for many years. Much of this is attributed to the settlement drive on the West Bank following the six-day war in 1967. Others attribute it to collusion with Britain…

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Ricki Hollander: More Anti-Israel Propaganda in New York Times Op-Eds

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=1491 An opinion column is meant to be just that, but when opinion is supported by incendiary falsehoods, a newspaper must draw the line. The New York Times apparently does not – at least not for columns repudiating the Jewish…

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Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook: Anti-Semitism Among Palestinian Authority Academics

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=2110&TTL=Anti-Semitism_among_Palestinian_Authority_Academics One of the primary objectives of the Palestinian Authority (PA) after its establishment in 1994 was to delegitimize Israel. These efforts were evident throughout Palestinian society and involved various channels including television, schoolbooks, and culture. The delegitimization of Israel…

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Shlomo Avineri: Don’t Depend on Outsiders for a Settlement of Mideast Dispute

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=110061&d=20&m=5&y=2008 JERUSALEM, 20 May 2008 – Israel’s 60th anniversary has come and gone. So, too, has President George W. Bush’s final visit to the Middle East. Amidst the celebrations and the soul-searching, no meaningful breakthrough in the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian negotiations…

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Vera Altrock: Forschung Sind Gefühle erlaubt? Ich ringe mit der Fassung

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/05/17/881564.html Wie fühlt jemand, der täglich mit der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland befasst ist? Empfindet er Schuld oder Wut, wird er traurig? Oder lässt die Thematik ihn kalt? Ein Historiker stellt sich der Gewissensfrage. Der Weg zum “Institut für…

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Exposed – Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Exposed_-_Anti-Israeli_Subversion_on_Wikipedia.asp Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit, may strive for pure democracy, but that doesn’t mean it’s always fair. Our colleagues at CAMERA learned this the hard way last month when their effort to fight anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia…

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