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The Sequel to the Video YouTube Censored:
Max Blumenthal and Jesse Rosenfeld interview young Tel Aviv residents about Iran, Obama and right-wing laws limiting the speech rights of their Palestinian-Israeli neighbors. The shocking responses reflect the deepening of racist and authoritarian trends in Israeli society. This is the sequel to “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem,” the video banned by YouTube, Vimeo and the Huffington Post after topping 400,000 hits.
Agence France Presse - 7 March 2010
JERUSALEM (AFP) – The Arab co-director of an Israeli film nominated for an Academy Award has scandalised the Jewish state by saying that he does not see himself as representing the country at Sunday evening’s awards ceremony.
The film “Ajami”, directed by Israeli Arab Scandar Copti and his Jewish colleague Yaron Shani is a contender in the best foreign film category. Read More »
Middle East Online - 8 March 2010
Miliband: invading Iraq won ‘respect’ of Mideast states, UK mustn’t shy away from new wars.
LONDON – Britain’s decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it “respect” among states in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar “engagement” in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday. Read More »
The establishment has surpassed its previous disgraceful record in its attitudes to Islam
Independent - 8 March 2010
I am but Muslim lite, a non-conformist believer who will not be told what and how by sanctimonious religious sentinels for whom religion is a long list of rules to be obeyed by bovine followers. Readers know I am often critical of Muslim people and nations. Bad things that happen to us cannot all be attributed to “Islamophobia”, a nebulous and imprecise concept that, like anti-Semitism, can be used to besmirch and sully and silence criticism.
Amira Hass
Haaretz – 7 March 2010
An Israel Defense Forces court on Sunday agreed to release from custody a 13-year-old Palestinian boy held for nine days on suspicion of throwing stones at soldiers.
The boy has been held since his first remand hearing, on March 2, when his father was unable to pay the NIS 2,000 the court required for him to be released on bail. He was released on Sunday without paying bail. Read More »
Ma’an – Published today – 3 March 2010
Hebron – A Hebron child had his detention extended on Wednesday as he stood before an Israeli military tribunal at the Ofer prison, for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli forces.
The father of Al-Hassan, 12, Fadl Al-Muhtaseb told Ma’an that his son had not been indicted for any crime but nonetheless had his sentence extended.
The need for the French government to treat religious minorities with respect is bolstered by its own history. Modern France would do well to follow its own admirable example and truly treat Muslim citizens as equal participants in society. Foregoing the burqa ban would be a sensible first step, notes Joshua M. Z. Stanton.
Middle East Online – 3 March 2010
Even as a Jew in New York, I know what it is like to be Muslim in France.
While studying abroad in the French city of Strasbourg in 2007, I decided to grow a bushy beard. Little did I know that in France only traditional Jewish and Muslim men don anything but the most finely trimmed moustache or goatee. Since I did not wear a yarmulke or other head covering, people who saw me on the street assumed that I was Muslim. Read More »
Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shiites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslim disunity has made it possible for Israel to dispossess the Palestinians, and for the US to invade Iraq, threaten Iran and rule much of the region, notes Paul Craig Roberts.
Middle East Online - 03 March 2010
Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shiites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be held in April in Iran, have been cancelled, because the Iranians and the Arabs cannot agree on whether to call the body of water that separates Iran from the Arabian Peninsula the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf. Read More »
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad*
Palestine Chronicle – 2 March 2010
Norman Finkelstein, an internationally renowned scholar of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, was due to talk about the state of the decades-old conflict and the situation in Gaza one year after the Israeli assault last week in Munich and Berlin. As part of a European speaking tour which would have led him to Germany for the first time since 2002, Finkelstein has been invited to speak in Prague at a number of prestigious institutions, such as the Institute of International Relations Prague, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at Charles University in Prague. Read More »
By Daniel Steinvorth
DER SPIEGEL - 01 March 2010
Last week’s arrest of military brass amid allegations of a plot against the Turkish government have dealt a serious blow to the country’s secular elite. But some are asking if Prime Minister Erdogan has bitten off more than he can chew. Read More »
By Scott Wilson
The Washington Post – 1 March 2010
Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up.
His debate partner and best friend was a classmate named Josh Goldberg, meaning that at the end of many tournaments, the judge would announce “Goldberg-Hussain” as the cultural odd couple who had won the argument. “People got a kick out of it,” Hussain said in a recent interview. “We joked that one day we would have the solution to the peace process.” The two remain close friends. Read More »
IMEMC News - 1 March 2010
Hamas leader, Sheikh Hasan Yousef, imprisoned by Israel at the Negev detention camp, has officially disowned his son who converted to Christianity and also collaborated with the Israeli security, Shabak, several years ago.
Sheikh Yousef sent a letter from his prison tent stating that he, his wife and children, hereby disown Mosab, his first born son, who is currently living in the United States after converting to Christianity and collaborating with Israel. Read More »
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