Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Denying the Holocaust

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/93693/Denying_the_Holocaust Pope Benedict XVI sparked a firestorm by lifting the excommunication of a bishop who claims the Holocaust never occurred. How could anyone believe such a thing? Who would deny the Holocaust?All kinds of people, it turns out. The issue…

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Rafael Medoff: Don’t Turn Iran’s Jews Into a Political Footbal

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1235410717966&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Are 25,000 Jews living happily and securely under the most repressive and anti-Semitic regime in the world? Apparently the answer is yes, if one is to believe New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, who in a February 23…

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Cem Özdemir: Migranten: “Antisemitismus ist keine Randerscheinung”

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/717/459359/text/ Prangert den Antisemitimus unter Türken und Arabern in Deutschland an: Grünen-Chef Cem Özdemir.Foto: dpa Mehr als drei Millionen Menschen muslimischer Herkunft leben in Deutschland. Seit den Terroranschlägen des 11.09.2001 werden sie und ihre Religion in der Öffentlichkeit besonders kritisch…

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Elliott Abrams: The Path of Realism or the Path of Failure

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/177aimud.asp Repetition of failed experiments is not a sign of mental health or a path to scientific progress, nor is it a formula for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Yet that is the road we may again take, unless the lessons of the…

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Gregg J. Rickman: Boycott Durban II

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/18/1003087/op-ed-boycott-durban-ii WASHINGTON (JTA) — The 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, otherwise known as the Durban Conference, was a parley hijacked by radicals betraying the real purpose of the event — the confrontation of racial…

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Uriel Heilman: What Will Netanyahu’s Government Look Like?

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/20/1003159/what-will-bibis-government-look-like (JTA) — When Israeli President Shimon Peres designated Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu on Friday to form Israel’s next government, one key question about Israel’s next government was answered but many others were left unresolved. Unlike Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, who…

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Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Zionism and the Global Anti-Semitic Frenzy

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304788129&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism is meeting today in London in the wake of the Gaza campaign, which ignited an exponential eruption of global anti-Semitic frenzy unprecedented since the Nazi era. The intensity of the anti-Jewish rage,…

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Obama’s Durban Dalliance

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123508939643928103.html Last December, we wrote that an “early test” for the Obama Administration would be whether it participated in a forthcoming U.N. conference on racism, better known as Durban II. Uh, oh. The first “Durban” — named for the South…

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Emily B. Landau: The New US Administration: Confusion and Indecision on Iran

http://www.inss.org.il/research.php?cat=5&incat=&read=2675 During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama indicated his willingness to engage with Iran over the nuclear issue without preconditions; in other statements he maintained that he would not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. The urgency of the Iranian…

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