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http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18&SecId=18&AId=58884&ATypeId=1 Jewish leaders have resisted criticising Britain’s main teachers’ union over a motion set down for its annual conference that seeks to strengthen its ties with Palestine. A report in The Guardian last Thursday claimed that the National Union of…
read morehttp://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14270&Itemid=86 TORONTO – A resolution that called on Ontario Catholic teachers to discuss a boycott of Israel and suggested that Israel practises apartheid failed to make it to the floor at the group’s annual general meeting last week. The resolution,…
read morehttp://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2008/03/18/CampusNews/After.Attack.Officer.Posted.Outside.Hillel-3273149.shtml Two days after improvised firebombs were thrown at the off-campus house of Brown/RISD Hillel employee Yossi Knafo, the University is enhancing security and preparing an open forum to discuss what the attack means for the Brown community. Though the…
read morehttp://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/articles/tzipi-livni-forum Harvard Kennedy School last night hosted Tzipi Livni, the vice prime minister and minister of foreign affairs for the State of Israel. Livni delivered a public address in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. A sampling of media coverage…
read morehttp://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3267128 Paris – Wegen einer Bombendrohung ist die vom Nahost-Konflikt überschattete Pariser Buchmesse am Sonntag evakuiert worden, bestätigte die Polizei der französischen Hauptstadt am Nachmittag. Die Besucher wurden am späten Sonntagnachmittag gebeten, sich wegen einer “technischen Kontrolle” zu den Ausgängen…
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Med-Uni Wien gedenkt der von den Nazis vertriebenen Lehrenden und Studierenden – Rektor Schütz: “Es ist jahrzehntelang ein Tabu gewesen, über dieses Tabu zu reden” Wien – Ein Buch mit herausgerissenen, losen Seiten ist für immer ein beschädigtes Buch. Ein…
read more…Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the home of a Jewish Agency emissary in Providence, Rhode Island. One landed in the living room but did not ignite; the second was thrown at an outside wall and caused a fire in…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/964763.html Thousands fled the Paris book Fair in Porte de Versailles on Sunday, after French police were tipped off to a bomb threat on the premises. The venue was reopened shortly after evacuation, as police said the alert was apparently…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1205420683045&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The clear distinction between civilian and combatant breaks down in a war against terrorists, and international law must acknowledge and deal with this, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. “The anachronistic theory that you can clearly tell the…
read moreA teachers’ union looks set to reignite the row over the boycott of Israel, which divided university lecturers last year and triggered an international storm. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is due to discuss a motion at its Easter…
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