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Saree Makdisi’s recent “Outside the Tent” column “In the war of words, The Times is Israel’s ally” raises interesting questions regarding the international community’s insistence that Palestinians recognize Israel’s right to exist. Recognition, says Makdisi, takes place simultaneously between sovereign…
read moreThe guidelines of the Palestinian national unity government provide scant hope for peace in the Middle East. Israel appears in the guidelines only as an adjective; it modifies words such as occupation or aggression and never appears as a noun,…
read moreThe ideological goal of militant Islamist terrorism is to found Islamic Sharia-run states, that is, new caliphates established on the basis of the anachronistic values of “feqh”-the process of carrying out Islamic law. As history shows, such states would resemble…
read morePerhaps an intrepid researcher will one day go through the many Internet pages that make assertions pro and con on the question of whether Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories can properly be assessed as ‘apartheid.’ Then we may be…
read moreFor Jewish students, Leeds university has for some time been a source of growing concern. Such students have been forced to run a gauntlet of anti-Jewish prejudice dressed in the familiar camouflage of anti-Israel sentiment, as in the notorious (and…
read morein Brit Tzedek Conference Call Open to Public on March 26Question and Answer to Follow- Instructions for Call Below************************************* THE U.S. CONNECTION:The Palestinian Unity Government & Final-Status Peace Talks TOWN HALL CONFERENCE CALLwith Dr. Rashid Khalidi Monday, March 26 at…
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Even before the Palestinian “unity” government was sworn in Saturday at least five European countries announced that they would resume their business with the Hamas-led coalition. The U.S. has endorsed Israel’s position on the Palestinian government–namely, that its political platform…
read moreThe Following is excerpted from Foundation for Defense of Democracy newsletter, with a link to a Harvard report by Marvin Kalb. THE MEDIA AS WEAPON: Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb has authored a new report on coverage of the Israeli-Hizbullah War…
read moreThe past few months saw rising temperatures of accusations and counteraccusations among sections of the Jewish community. Leftist Jews criticized Israel, professor Alvin Rosenfeld criticized anti-Zionist Jews, the American Jewish Committee (AJCommittee) published Rosenfeld’s article, Rob Eshman criticized Rosenfeld (“Shutting…
read moreOn December 10, 2006, Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), spoke at a conference sponsored by the North American branch of Rabbis for Human Rights.[1 ] Roth’s presentation consisted of a defense of HRW’s credibility and agenda,…
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