http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=26230 In Friday’s Wheel there was a disturbing cartoon directly comparing the Nazi ghettoes with the separation fence the Israelis have erected on the West Bank. This equation is historically spurious and highly prejudicial. The Germans put Jews from throughout…
read morehttp://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2961 Last week, Israeli forces entered Gaza, destroyed an underground border tunnel, and battled Hamas fighters, leaving several militants dead. In response, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired around eighty rockets into southern Israel, including the Israeli city of Ashkelon.…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-essay16-2008nov16,0,3750642.story Conservative Muslims may find it harder to rally opposition to a U.S. led by a multicultural, charismatic president. He could also inspire an Internet-based revolt. Reporting from Cairo — Despising America has long been a Middle East pastime, but…
read moreAm Ende stand eine Erklärung, die alles nur noch schlimmer machte: Bei den Verwüstungen, die mehrere hundert Schülerinnen und Schüler am vergangenen Mittwoch in der Berliner Humboldt-Universität anrichteten, habe es sich, wie die „SchülerInnen-Initiative ‚Bildungsblockaden einreißen!’” mitteilen ließ, „nicht um…
read morehttp://www.shma.com/april_08/facing_up_evil.htm SPME Editors Note: The Editors of the SPME Faculty Forum would like to thank the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research for bringing this article to our attention Ruth Wisse and Seth Lipsky are among the most influential, thoughtful Jews…
read morehttp://www.nypost.com/seven/11112008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_saudis_sham_138061.htm SEVERAL Middle Eastern and world leaders will meet in New York this week under United Nations auspices to discuss the world state of religious freedom. The meeting – part of an initiative of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=625&PID=0&IID=2682 For ancient Greek and Roman pagan authors, Jerusalem definitely was a Jewish city. This article draws on references to Jerusalem from nearly twenty different sources, dating from the third century BCE to the third century CE, which are included…
read morehttp://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD211608 Reactions in the Arab world to the election of Sen. Barack Obama as U.S. president fell into two main categories: expressions of appreciation for the American democracy which had made his victory possible, and attempts to assess the impact…
read morehttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/11/10/what-about-a-seme.aspx It was Thursday, barely 36 hours since Barack Obama was recognized to have won the American presidency, that some editorialist at the London Financial Times sat down to do his Friday leader. It was the paper’s first instructions to…
read morehttp://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD211208 In his column in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, ‘Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar criticized the persecution of Christians in Arab countries, with a particular emphasis on the Christian population of the Palestinian Authority.(1) Following are excerpts from the article: “In Iraq,…
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