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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123733224510363157.html International donors pledged almost $4.5 billion in aid for Gaza earlier this month. It has been very painful for me to witness over the past few years the deteriorating humanitarian situation in that narrow strip where I lived as…
read morehttp://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott-that-is-the-question/?pagemode=print In response to last week’s column on neoliberalism and higher education, Sobriquet writes that neoliberalism, like neoconservatism, is “an opaque catchphrase coined by wannabe pundits” that doesn’t “refer to anything.” That judgment finds support in an essay soon to…
read morehttp://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,612954,00.html Die US-Regierung hat schon abgesagt, auch Kanada und Italien gehen auf Distanz: Die Uno-Konferenz gegen Rassismus wird wohl zum Tribunal gegen Israel zweckentfremdet – denn Staaten wie Libyen, Iran und Kuba diktieren die Agenda. Politiker und Publizisten drängen nun…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103384.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 The Obama administration’s latest failed nominee peddles a conspiracy theory. FORMER ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. looked like a poor choice to chair the Obama administration’s National Intelligence Council. A former envoy to Saudi Arabia and China, he suffered…
read morehttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/03/irans-protocols-of-potter/#comment-1875 . It was high time that anti-Semitism would find something hipper than those dusty Protocols of the Elders of Zion, concocted sometime between 1895 and 1902 by Russian journalist Matvei Golovinski and then used by the pro-Tsarists to discredit…
read morehttp://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/03/12/1003650/jews-need-to-get-over-it Writing in the Independent, Antony Lerman, former director of the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, says Jewish anxiety over anti-Semitism makes it difficult to think clearly about how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In the wake of Israel’s…
read morehttp://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/international/Israel-UN-Rassismus;art123,2747998 Frank Jansen und Benjamin Weinthal Berlin – Die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen stehen vor einer Belastungsprobe. Anlass ist die für Ende April geplante zweite Durban-Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen in Genf, an der die Bundesrepublik trotz sich abzeichnender antisemitischer Tendenzen teilnehmen will.…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1236676912135&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull There’s a new debate about anti-Semitism in Germany. The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin has compared it with hostility against Islam in a conference called “Perceived Enemy Muslim – Perceived Enemy Jew.”…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1236103157742&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull In two articles in The Jerusalem Post (December 10 and February 15), German center ‘ignored’ anti-Semitism and ‘German center ignores Iranian threat’, Benjamin Weinthal attacked the Berlin Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism (headed by Prof. Wolfgang Benz),…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/116539/antibahaismus+im+iran Die staatliche Hasspropaganda und die Verschwörungstheorien gegen die Bahai im Iran nehmen kein Ende. Jetzt sollen sogenannte „Kryptojuden“, auch „Anusim“ genannt, für die Verbreitung der Babi- und Bahai-Religion im Iran verantwortlich gewesen sein. Farsnews ist nicht irgendeine iranische Nachrichtenagentur.…
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