July 29, 2010 - Israel Behind the News

EDITORIAL: CANADA INVOKES SEMA AGAINST IRAN

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Rhonda Spivak, attorney, writer, and member of Canadian & Israel Bar Associations, now edits Winnipeg Jewish Review at http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/

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July 29, 2010

I had never heard of the Special Economic Measures Act until Liberal Member of Parliament and Former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, who is the chair of the Responsibility to Prevent Coalition started...

The Nakba Obsession: The Palestinian national narrative is the biggest obstacle to peace in...

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Sol Stern,contributing editor of City Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice.

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July 29, 2010

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations-the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted...

Antisemitism and Introspection

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Prof. Robert S. Wistrich,director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/) and the author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Ji

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July 29, 2010

Robert s. Wistrich This year, Tisha B'Av (the annual Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem) once again reminded us of the dangers of “gratuitous hatred” without...

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Daily Archives: July 29, 2010

EDITORIAL: CANADA INVOKES SEMA AGAINST IRAN

The Nakba Obsession: The Palestinian national narrative is the biggest obstacle to peace in...

Antisemitism and Introspection

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