Right on time to minimise or censor out Islamist attacks on the West, or Christianity, or any of its core values, here comes the BBC — that taxpayer funded, and legally-bound-to-impartiality institution of state http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4356/liberal_left_bbc_minimises_christian_persecution While it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fails to report on the international phenomenon of Christian […]
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http://www.nationalreview.com/node/363943/print Count me in the Erick Erickson camp when it comes to the Upton gimmickry – because, at best, that’s all it is. Republicans would make a big mistake backing it. The GOP should not be working to “fix” Obamacare. That would just further tar Republicans as part owners of Obamacare. They should be working to scrap Obamacare now, while the political momentum is […]
Keeping Israel out of the loop US Secretary of State John Kerry, obviously quite edgy and piqued, took several swipes in swift succession at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in recent days. Among others, he carped that Netanyahu has no right to criticize the negotiations with Iran, as he doesn’t know enough about the details of the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/legal-support-for-terrorism-at-the-university-of-haifa/print/
MANY AMERICAN SUPPORTERS CONTRIBUTE TO HAIFA UNIVERSITY UNAWARE OF THESE FACTS….WE URGE ALL SUPPORTERS IN AMERICA TO DENOUNCE THESE ABETTORS OF TERRORISM IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY AND WITHHOLD FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS……RSK
In recent days the University of Haifa in northern Israel, where I am also employed, has come under intensive criticism because the “legal clinics” operated by its School of Law here are assigning law students the task of counseling and defending convicted Arab terrorists and mass murderers of Jews. The President of the University recently issued a statement defending the activities of these “clinics.” The Dean of the Law School together with the head of the “clinics” went on the attack and denounced those who criticize the practice of the “clinics” to counsel and defend the terrorists.
The Dean, Prof. Gad Barzilai, is a radical active in leftist “human rights” groups and involved in academic politicization in Israel (Barzilai was a defender of the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University – the worst anti-Israel agitprop center in the country – when an international panel of experts called for shutting it down). He claims that all criticism of the law school for its involvement with terrorists is politically motivated. In particular he denounced the Zionist student movement “Im Tirtzu” for criticizing the law school. Several faculty members at the University called for filing SLAPP suits against the students to silence them, and one anti-Israel faculty extremist complained that the clinics were not defending the terrorists enough.
Im Tirtzu claims that 80% of the cases taken on by the University of Haifa legal clinic for “prisoner rights” involved Arab terrorists and spies. One involved a terrorist and convicted rapist seeking a furlough. Dean Barzilai insists that the law school is simply devoted to “repairing society” and defending the “weakened populations” of Israel. In the past, the law school prohibited the singing of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, at its graduation ceremonies, claiming it would offend the sensitivities of Arab students.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/susan-rice-israel-settlements_n_4278346.html
The Benghazi liar did not need congressional approval to lie in her new gig…rsk
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s top national security aide on Thursday blamed Israeli settlement expansion announcements for some of the latest tensions between Israel and the Palestinians as U.S.-brokered peace talks between the two sides have faltered.
In a speech to a Washington think tank, Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, said the United States remained committed to Middle East peacemaking, but made clear that it saw Jewish settlement construction plans as hampering those efforts.
“We have seen increased tensions on the ground. Some of this is a result of recent settlement announcements. So let me reiterate: The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” she said.
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2013/11/he-has-their-measure-australian-jewish.html Associate Professor Philip Mendes is a left-leaning Aussie Zionist and a much-published historian of the Jewish Left in Australia. I’ve referred to him on this blog before, here. In an op-ed, entitled “The BDS movement and the opportunistic exploitation of self-denying Jews,” on the website of the ABC, he writes, inter alia: ‘[T]here is […]
“An International Ghetto Bench”: Boycott’s just another word for picking on the Jews Courtesy: http://edgar1981.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/apartheid-israel.html Coffee-splutteringly shocking, eh, this photo of apartheid in Jerusalem taken recently by British blogger Edgar Davidson? No wonder Israel’s compared to South Africa in the bad old days. Thus, in a recent interview, the leftwing British film director Ken Loach explains […]
http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/ I once heard a quote attributed to Aristotle that says; “The Law is Reason, Free from Passion”. While this may be the theoretical desired handling of legal matters, it is never-the-less apparent that only a percentage of any given legal and political population actually practices this. What we have been witnessing is an […]
http://www.jewishledger.com/2013/11/doom-and-gloom-or-rich-opportunity/
Now that the dust has settled a bit on the Pew Research Center’s “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” it’s time to see how Jewish Connecticut is responding.
Conducted between February and June, this is the most comprehensive national survey of the Jewish population since the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey conducted by United Jewish Communities (now Jewish Federations of North America). More than 70,000 screening interviews were conducted to identify Jewish respondents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Longer interviews were completed with 3,475 Jews, including 2,786 Jews by religion and 689 Jews of no religion. While many communities are taking steps to incorporate the findings of the Pew study into their programming, not everyone accepts the findings as gospel, so to speak. In short, the study has its detractors.
While respondents overwhelmingly reported that they are proud to be Jewish and have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, the survey also suggests that Jewish identity is changing in America, where one in five Jews (22 percent) now describe themselves as having no religion.
The survey explored identity, intermarriage, religious beliefs and practices, attitudes toward Israel and the Holocaust, and social and political views. The entire report is available at pewforum.org.
The Ledger asked representatives of Connecticut’s Jewish communities to weigh in on how the findings impact upon their respective constituencies and future plans. Several responded.
