Hamas shaves heads of long-haired Gaza youths
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Islamic rulers crack down on behavior deemed inappropriate; rights groups outraged GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into jeeps, mocking them and shaving their heads, two of those targeted and a rights group said Sunday. […]
Netanyahu at Shoah ceremony: ‘We won’t leave our fate in the hands of others’
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Also speaking at official Yad Vashem remembrance, Peres calls on world to take seriously modern-day threats of mass destruction Israel will defend itself with its own forces and prevent a Holocaust from ever happening again, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday night, echoing a familiar refrain that the […]
Universal lessons of the Holocaust
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When writing on the Holocaust, I am reminded of the early teachings of my parents – the profundity and pain of which I realized only years later – that there are things in Jewish history – in human history – too terrible to be believed, but not too terrible to have happened. Indeed, the Holocaust […]
Can’t Say Terrorism, Can’t Say War on Terror, Islamist Now a No-No
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First they came for terrorism, then it was the war on terror, and now it is Islamism. The AP Stylebook definition for Islamist was changed due to Muslim pressure It seems to have started during the spring of 2009, when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano first appeared in her new role at a congressional hearing. […]
Tribunal in the Fraser case finds no antisemitism in UCU – a preliminary response from David Hirsh
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“When someone is honestly 55% right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God. But what’s to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever say he’s 100% right […]
Israeli singer Rita’s special surrealistic concert at the UN General Assembly
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UN Ambassador Prosor has pulled off one of the most unusual diplomatic achievements ever: a full-fledged UN-sponsored Farsi-Hebrew musical event full of goodwill and sympathy. Inside the hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations building in New York, it seemed at times that either the messiah had arrived or the world had turned […]
George Galloway in “racist” walk out
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George Galloway walked out of a debate on Wednesday evening after learning that the student he was debating with was an Israeli. The Respect MP had just begun to debate Eylon Aslan-Levy, a third-year PPEist at Brasenose, on the motion ‘Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank’. But as Aslan-Levy was beginning his speech, […]
Islamist Insurgents Burn Historic Manuscripts in Timbuktu
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Timbuktu Mayor: Mali Rebels Torched Library of Historic Manuscripts Fleeing Islamist insurgents burnt two buildings containing priceless books as French-led troops approached, says mayor Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts, according to the Saharan town’s mayor, in an incident he described as a “devastating blow” […]
Charles Small, Director of ISGAP Featured in The Times of Israel
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Institute to shed light on Islamic anti-Semitism “The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them. They invented socialism, communism, human rights, and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may […]
Times of Israel Article – Egyptian PM Morsi says “Jewish-controlled media distorted my ‘apes and pigs’ remark”
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Morsi: Jewish-controlled media distorted my ‘apes and pigs’ remark US senators ‘physically recoiled’ during tense recent Cairo meeting, which almost fell apart after they challenged Egyptian president By Raphael Ahren In a conversation with senior US lawmakers, Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi reportedly implied that the Jews control the US media and have distorted comments he […]