http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/howard_jacobson/article2768274.ece I have a confession to make. I stepped off the straight and narrow last week. I addressed a political rally. Not a rally in the George Galloway sense, where you stand on a box in the middle of Trafalgar…
read more“Should you wake up one day to find your wife or child or parent in the hands of the secret police in a country that routinely violates the rule of law, you will likely choose quiet probing over publicity. You…
read moreSIR – Since 1931, the International Council for Science (ICSU) has upheld the principle of the universality of science, based on the right of scientists to work without discrimination on the grounds of citizenship, religion, creed, political stance, ethnic origin,…
read moreTorture of Iran’s political prisoners is reportedly commonplace at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. The jailing of three US-Iranian academics in Iran on accusations of fomenting a ‘velvet revolution’ signals that Iranian academics and academic freedom could be casualties of the…
read moreThe academic boycott of apartheid South Africa is often cited as a model for the current boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The reality is that they could not be more different except in one aspect: such boycotts alone are ineffective.…
read morehttp://www.nypost.com/seven/07082007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/islams_problem_opedcolumnists_irshad_manji.htm July 8, 2007 — LAST week, two very different Brits had their say about the latest terrorist plots in their country. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the nation that “we have got to separate those great moderate members of…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878936.html In recent years a phenomenon called “post-Zionism” has developed in the political-intellectual discourse in Israel. Fundamentally, this is a radical criticism not just of Israel’s policy; at its base is total denial of the Zionist project and of the…
read morehttp://lizaswelt.blogspot.com/2007/07/doktor-horror.html Nachdem in London und Glasgow Anschläge massenmörderischen Ausmaßes verhindert worden sind, reiben sich angesichts der Biografie der Festgenommenen nun nicht wenige verwundert die Augen: Ärzte? Wieso gerade Ärzte? Die Frage ist für sich genommen bereits ausgesprochen aufschlussreich, denn letztlich…
read moredeutsche Übersetzung: Lizas Welt http://lizaswelt.blogspot.com/2007/07/doktor-horror.html Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Komplott islamischer Ärzte und einem Komplott jüdischer Ärzte? Das klingt wie der Beginn eines Witzes, ist es aber nicht. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Komplott islamischer Ärzte, das von Scotland…
read moreTony Judt und die Europäisierung der deutschen Ideologie (erschienen in: Bahamas, Nr. 51, 2006/07) “Wir dürfen nicht müde werden zu drängen, diese große breite Volksbewegung zur Vereinigung Europas zu schaffen, das mehr sein muß als ein Europa von Kommissionen, als…
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