Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)

Philippe Karsenty: “We Need to Expose the Muhammad al-Dura Hoax”

http://www.meforum.org/article/1998 Editors’ preface: Philippe Karsenty Philippe Karsenty is the founder and president of Media-Ratings (www.M-R.fr), an online French media watchdog. In November 2004, he published an article entitled “Arlette Chabot and Charles Enderlin Must Be Fired Immediately,”[1] alleging that France…

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Tamara Cofman Wittes: Our Shaky Coalition, And How To Save It

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2008/10/our_shaky_coalition_and_how_to_save_it/ There are two opposing coalitions in the Middle East today. On the one hand, there is a revisionist coalition comprised of Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah-a coalition dissatisfied with the distribution of power in the region, and dissatisfied with…

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Ted Lapkin: Academic Anti-Zionism in Australia

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=610&PID=0&IID=2637&TTL=Academic_Anti-Zionism_in_Australia &&&&&&& When it comes to radical trends including anti-Zionism, Australian campuses are like most other Western universities, only even more extreme. The ubiquity of left-wing politics in Australian academia means that writing about campus Israel-phobia requires discrimination since the…

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Hassan Mneimneh:Syria’s Choice

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/706jkbke.asp?pg=2 Seven years after 9/11, Washington policymakers remain fundamentally confused about the nature of Islamist extremism, the ideas behind it and the states that manipulate it. In few places is this problem more obvious than in the U.S. relationship with…

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Michael Gerson: The President Who Will Deal With Iran

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902330.html A specter is haunting the presidential race — and it is not just the economy. It is the specter of a nuclear Iran. Economic downturns are wrenching but cyclical. Nuclear proliferation is more difficult to reverse, creating the permanent…

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Wahied Wahdat-Hagh: Der Wirtschafts-Tsunami trifft den Iran

http://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/iran+aktuell/93072/der+wirtschaftstsunami+trifft+den+iran Während die Regierung von Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wegen ihrer Subventionspolitik ins Kreuzfeuer der Kritik geraten ist, kennzeichnen Streiks und Inflation die soziale und wirtschaftliche Lage im Iran. Zudem bleibt der iranische Gottesstaat von den Einflüssen des Weltmarktes nicht verschont. Die…

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Benjamin L. Hartman: Thank Goodness for McCain and Obama Support On Iran

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027617.html Needing a dominating performance to close a widening gap with Barack Obama in the polls, John McCain turned in a weak and at times disrespectful performance at Tuesday’s presidential debate that should only see his campaign drop further behind,…

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Alain Goldschläger: The Canadian Campus Scene

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2614&TTL=The_Canadian_Campus_Scene A number of North American and European universities have been far from innocent bystanders in a politically motivated, disingenuous debate taking place on campus that denies the authenticity of the Holocaust. A hesitation to act is also evident when…

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Staatssekretär a. D. Klaus Faber: Islamophobie und Antisemitismus

http://honestlyconcerned.info/bin/articles.cgi?ID=IA6808&Category=ia&Subcategory=7 (Vortrag auf der Tagung „Islamischer Antisemtismus“ und „Islamophobie“ der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung am 17.9.2008 in Berlin) Zur Entstehung und Konzeption des Islamophobiebegriffs Der Begriff „Islamophobie“, weitgehend, aber nicht vollständig inhaltsgleich mit Islamhass, Islamfeindlichkeit oder Antiislamismus, ist in Situationen entstanden und definiert…

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Israel-Palestinians: Trilateral Scenario

Israeli Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland served as head of the Israeli National Security Council from 2004 to 2006. He is the author of a new paper, “Rethinking the Two-State Solution” (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), in which…

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