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Sarah Halimi’s Law

Everything about this case is heartbreaking. The fate of a retired kindergarten teacher, beaten and then thrown from a window. The evasiveness about whether a murder committed to cries of “I’ve killed the devil!” was or was not an anti-Semitic…

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Remembering the Wonderful Petra Marquardt-Bigman

Petra Marquardt-Bigman. Photo: Hen Mazzig. I will always be grateful to Twitter for having brought Petra Marquardt-Bigman into my life. It was there, on a platform that is frequently, and justifiably, maligned for promoting strife and conflict, that we first…

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In Memory of Petra Marquardt-Bigman

Dr. Petra Marquardt-Bigman has passed away. Petra was a dear friend, and a researcher and writer for Legal Insurrection and many other outlets. The About section of her personal website describes her background: I grew up in the southern part of Germany, in the…

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Black Lives Lead to Palestinian Lies

The police killings of black men in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., this month have revived an ugly smear against Israel: that such shootings result from Israeli training of American law enforcement. “We must remember that many US…

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