Stuart Appelbaum, of the Jewish Labor Committee, has a piece in The Forward that is really worth reading, so I’m plugging it again.
Archive for March, 2008
Good old school eyewitness journalism isn’t exactly everywhere these days. So allow me to plug a superb piece by my good friend and AJC colleague, Kenneth Bandler, on the situation in the Israeli town of Sderot.
There is much anger today among our friends in the blogosphere today, and justifiably so. Never has it been more clear that those behind the academic boycott of Israelis are a motley crew of villains and rogues.
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March 27 Update: The BBC reports that Geert Wilders has now posted fitna on a website. Interestingly, they don’t provide a link.
Elif Kayi, Z Word’s European press reviewer, reports on controversy in Holland over the documentary film, “Fitna.”
Geert Wilders, Dutch parliamentarian and leader of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV), has triggered a furious row in The Netherlands over the issue of Islamophobia with his new documentary film, Fitna - the Arabic title is translated as “civil war.”
No surprise, I suppose, but the leadership of Britain’s academic union - known as the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the University and College Union (UCU) - are pushing, for the fourth year running, an academic boycott of Israelis. Just Israelis.
More on Russian antisemitism from Simply Jews: this time, it’s a movie.
The blood libel is back. Read Simply Jews, here.
Counterpunch, the online journal which recently coined the term “Neo-Jew” - arguably the most significant development in the etymology of Jew-hating since Wilhelm Marr popularized the term “anti-Semite” - is at it again.
Continue reading ‘Force, Violence and the “One-State” Formula’
Elif Kayi, Z Word’s European press reviewer, reports on recent debates over Muslim integration in Germany.
In late 2006, Wolfgang Schauble, the German interior minister, set up a body called the “Islam Conference” with the aim of encouraging dialogue between the state and the representatives of Germany’s Muslim communities. This was followed up, last year, with the creation of the Muslim Coordinating Committee, composed of the four biggest Islamic federations in Germany. Thus did Germany address a major policy question which has cropped up in other western European countries: how to find a bona-fide Muslim interlocutor?
