Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

C. Schlötzer: Judenhass in Griechenland: Triumph des Rassisten

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/885/463493/text/ Er preist Hitler, nennt Juden “Untermenschen” und will das KZ Auschwitz erhalten – man könne es ja noch gebrauchen. Der Judenhasser Kostas Plevris darf straffrei hetzen, entschied ein Athener Gericht. Darf in Griechenland straffrei gegen Juden hetzen:Kostas Plevris, hier…

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“Netanyahu wird sich beugen müssen”

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1237228483897%26sap=2%26_pid=12487427 Zur Person Der Politologe und Nahostexperte Alon Ben-Meir unterrichtet internationale Beziehungen an der renommierten New York University. Er kommentiert die Geschehnisse im Nahen Osten regelmäßig für die großen US-Fernsehstationen CNN und Fox und tritt in US-Talkshows auf. Ob Israel…

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Reda Mansour: Op-Ed: Apartheid in Israel? The Facts Say Otherwise

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/01/1004187/op-ed-apartheid-in-israel-the-facts-say-otherwise ATLANTA (JTA) — A few years ago I began an initiative at the Israeli Foreign Ministry aimed at opening a dialogue with Muslim communities in the West. When the first delegations of European and American Muslims started to arrive,…

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Scott Carpenter: The Obama Administration, the Gaza War, and Implications for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East

ttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=2921&TTL=The_Obama_Administration_and_Implications_for_Freedom_and_Democracy_in_the_Middle_East The Obama administration marks the return of a so-called “realist” approach and an intentional downplaying of President Bush’s vision of an America that would use its power actively to advance freedom around the world. Few will lament the demise…

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Philippe Karsenty: The American Jewish Committee Deserves Better Leadership

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1238423642866&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull If ever an issue begged for the intervention of a Jewish organization of international stature, it was the Mohamed al Dura affair. This notorious blood libel accused Israeli soldiers of shooting to death an Arab boy in Gaza…

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Lucy James: The Power of a Hand-Shake

http://www.guardian.co.uk/free-d/power-of-a-handshake Students are often depicted as those devoted to protest, activism and speaking out. However, for the vast majority this perception is perhaps somewhat skewed. I spent four years as a student at the University of Manchester. Despite the efforts…

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Khaled Abu Toameh: On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians’ Real Agenda

http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/03/on-campus-the-pro-palestinians-real-agenda.php During a recent visit to several university campuses in the U.S., I discovered that there is more sympathy for Hamas there than there is in Ramallah. Listening to some students and professors on these campuses, for a moment I…

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: Iranische Feste und Proteste

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/119092/iranische+feste+und+proteste Das Nowruzfest ist ein altes iranisches Neujahrsfest. Nowruz heißt der neue Tag. Es wird seit über 2500 Jahren im Iran gefeiert. Heute wird dieser Tag immer mehr zu einem Tag des iranischen Widerstandes gegen die islamistische Herrschaft. Das neue…

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Erin Sheley: War of Silence

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/295rajzn.asp In late January, a group of American university professors launched the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, the first American effort of its kind. Part of the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement against…

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