Hedy Epstein: As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn’t Speak for Me Hedy Epstein is a Holocaust survivor who writes and travels extensively to speak about social justice causes and Middle Eastern affairs. Published on Friday, April 29, 2011 by CommonDreams.org At the end of one of my first journeys to the Israeli-occupied West Bank in [...]
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Helen Thomas: Jews didn’t have to leave Europe following Holocaust
Helen Thomas: Jews didn’t have to leave Europe following Holocaust In CNN interview, veteran reporter refuses to call comments urging Jews to leave Israel and return to Europe insensitive, says Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is the real insensitivity. By Haaretz Service Haaretz Fri, February 18, 2011 The Jews did not have to leave Germany [...]
American Imams visit Auschwitz
By JTA Jerusalem Post - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Eight Muslim American leaders who visited concentration camps and met with Holocaust survivors signed a statement condemning Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. The trip earlier this month, intended to teach the participants about the Holocaust, featured visits to Dachau and Auschwitz. “We stand united as Muslim American faith [...]
The Weak Case for War with Iran
Jeffrey Goldberg’s new article in the Atlantic is deeply reported — and deeply wrong about the Middle East. But it’s his misunderstanding of America that is most dangerous of all. BY FLYNT LEVERETT, HILLARY MANN LEVERETT FOREIGN POLICY - AUGUST 11, 2010 Amid widespread skepticism that sanctions will stop Tehran’s nuclear development and grudging, belated recognition [...]
Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate
Outspoken Hollywood director says new film aims to put Adolf Hitler, who he has called an ‘easy scapegoat’ in the past, in his due historical context. By Haaretz Service Haaretz - July 26, 2010 Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust, prominent Hollywood director Oliver Stone told the Sunday Times, [...]
The roots of Israeli exceptionalism
By Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti is an author in political history and history of religion. He is a research coordinator at Qatar Foundation. Uruknet.info – June 27, 2010 An American academic once told me: “Many people in the Islamic world think America does not believe in human rights, but they are wrong; America [...]
Thousands of Israelis flock back to Germany
Germany becoming attractive place to live for Israelis as scars of Holocaust begin to heal. By Yannick Pasquet – BERLIN Middle East Online – 20 June 2010 “My grandmother was three when she had to escape Nazi Germany with her family,” says Shiri Rosen, one of thousands of Israelis to have moved back to Germany in [...]
Germany’s Fear of Finkelstein
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 [...]
UN to teach children about Holocaust in Gaza schools
Donald Macintyre reveals plans opposed by Hamas to include Jewish tragedy in UN secondary school lessons Independent 5 October 2009 The United Nations’ refugee agency is planning to include the Holocaust in a new human-rights curriculum for pupils in its Gaza secondary schools despite strident opposition to the idea from within Hamas.
Book Review by Iqbal Jassat: Norman G Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Beyond Chutzpah On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History Norman G Finkelstein ISBN 1-84467-049-X Verso 2005 Reviewed by Iqbal Jassat (Chairman: Media Review Network) The imminent visit to South Africa by Norman G. Finkelstein following a major new initiative by SA NGOs to mount a legal campaign seeking the arrest and prosecution [...]
Bishop accuses Vatican of ‘excessive sensibility’ towards Jews
Head of ultra-conservative Catholic sect says he is ‘embarrassed’ by Holy See’s reaction to Holocaust comments Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 August 2009 The head of an ultra-conservative Catholic sect has attacked the Vatican for the “excessive sensibility” shown to the Jewish world following comments made by a Holocaust-denying priest. Bishop Bernard [...]
ISNA condemns the attack on the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) (Plainfield) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) condemns today’s attack on Washington’s Holocaust Museum. “Bigotry and racism undermine social order and incite people to violence and must be denounced by all people of good will,” ISNA Vice President Imam Mohamed Majid stated.
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