Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Yehuda Bauer: Berlin Conference Didn’t Lump Islamophobia With Anti-Semitism

http://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),…

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: Anti-Bahaismus im Iran

http://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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When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech: Two Perspectives

SPME Editor’s Note: These pieces are reprinted from the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Daily Israenet Briefing of March 6, 2009. from their series, “When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech.” THE MYTH OF ‘ISRAELI APARTHEID’Yoram ElronNational Post, March 6, 2009…

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When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech: Three Perspectives

SPME Editor’s Note: These pieces are reprinted from the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Daily Israenet Briefing of March 6, 2009. from their series, “When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech.” ANTI-SEMITISM FUROR AT UNIVERSITIESAmy MinskyThe Concordian, March 3, 2009 Anti-Jewish…

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Science Protests

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article5853702.ece Sir, I am sure the honourable Nobel prize protester and his collegues mentioned in your leading article (Mar 4 ) will be horrified to read that their computers and mobile phones were probably developed and/or manufactured in Israel. So…

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Gil Troy: Student Unions Should Stick to Student Issues

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16326&Itemid=86 Earlier this month, McGill University students voted 436 to 263 to postpone indefinitely a Students’ Society resolution condemning the “bombings” of “educational institutions in Gaza.” The initiative paralleled similar resolutions which passed at other Canadian universities, including University of…

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Khaled Abu Toameh: New Palestinian TV – To Broadcast What?

http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/03/new-palestinian-tv—to-broadcast-what.php American and European taxpayers are now being asked to fund a new TV station that will broadcast from Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians that is controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The new satellite station is intended…

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Obama’s Iran Crisis

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123612623865424027.html As a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama called a nuclear Iran “a grave threat” and said “the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” But he also called for direct, high-level talks in the hopes that the mullahs…

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Ishmael Khaldi: Lost in the Blur of Slogans

.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/03/EDRP168GMT.DTL For those who haven’t heard, the first week in March has been designated as Israel Apartheid Week by activists who are either ill intentioned or misinformed. On American campuses, organizing committees are planning happenings to once again castigate Israel…

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