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Shalom Lappin: The End of the Academic Boycott Campaign?

http://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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Gal Beckerman: The Israel Lobby Doesn’t Control the Media

http://www.cjr.org/top_story/the_israel_lobby_doesnt_contro.php?page=all What more could there possibly be to say about “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” the controversial new book-length version of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s provocative thesis about pro-Israel forces in America? We’ve heard both…

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M. D. Nalapat: Commentary: Once Again his Foes Help Ahmedinejad

http://www.upiasiaonline.com/politics/2007/09/25/commentary_once_again_his_foes_help_ahmedinejad/ MANIPAL, Sep. 25 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has this in common with U.S. President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: he too speaks directly to God. Admirers consider him to be the pilot heralding the…

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Hannes Stein: Warten auf Machmud

http://debatte.welt.de/weblogs/715/nyc+tagebuch+einer+aus+und+einwanderung/40147/warten+auf+machmud?print=1 Dass der iranische Präsident New York City betritt, war nicht zu vermeiden — jedenfalls wenn man nicht auf der Stelle einen Atomkrieg gegen den Iran führen will. Laut der Uno-Charta hat jeder Diktator und jeder Völkermörder das Recht, persönlich…

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Josef Joffe: Das Komplott der Koscher Nostra

http://www.zeit.de/2007/37/Juedische-Lobby?page=all Die Israel-Lobby in Amerika habe das Land in den Irak-Krieg gestürzt, behaupten zwei bisher angesehene US-Professoren Eine Gesellschaft in der Krise sucht nach einem Sündenbock, genauer: nach einer (all)mächtigen Kraft, die im Verborgenen wühlt, die Politik manipuliert und die…

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Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen: The Hamas PR Machine in America

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/article/59 On August 8, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the al-Salah Society as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), calling it “one of the largest and best funded Hamas charities.” Treasury revealed that Hamas had used al-Salah, “to finance its…

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Danny Ayalon: Comment: Manipulated By a Despot

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411478292&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull I do not recall any forum or prestigious institution in the United States inviting Adolf Hitler to provide an opportunity to speak about his policies in 1937. Then, no declarations of “freedom of speech” or “academic freedom” were…

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Shmuel Rosner: The Clear Loser from Ahmadinejad’s Visit is Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=906890&contrassID=25&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=#article906890 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University in New York on Monday resulted in one clear loser: Israel. In his speech, Ahmadinejad took aim at Israel. If he managed to convince one person of his views on Israel…

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