By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10 Israeli and American celebrities rallied this week at a benefit concert in Los Angeles for the rocket-weary people of Sderot. The participants included movie stars Sylvester Stallone, Jon Voight and Valerie Harper, comedian Larry Miller and Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb. Teenagers from Sderot were flown over for the concert [...]
Read more →Defense minister tours Egypt border, guarantees construction of fence stretching from Beerotayim to the Rafah border crossing preventing infiltrations, smuggling By Efrat Weiss Defense Minister Ehud Barak toured the border with Egypt Tuesday and promised to further construction of a 70- kilometer-long (43 miles) fence stretching from Beerotayim northward all the way to the Rafah [...]
Read more →Editor’s note: See also Menetrez’ The Case Against Alan Dershowitz. Debating Norman Finkelstein By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Frank Menetrez, in “The Case Against Alan Dershowitz” on the CounterPunch website, absurdly repeats the politically motivated and false charge that I committed plagiarism by quoting Mark Twain and citing to the original Mark Twain book The Innocents [...]
Read more →By davidreeb 3d anniversary of the Friday demonstrations in Bil’in var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.youtube.com/v/IwVcGmULeog&rel=1″, “movie”, “425″, “355″, “9″, “#FFFFFF”); so.write(“flashcontent”);
Read more →Editor’s note: See also the related Fox News article At least they didn’t accuse me of having an affair with a lobbyist 10 years ago Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:11:26 -0800 From: jeffretouch-business@yahoo.com Subject: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! To: normangf[at]hotmail.com WATCH YOUR BACK! Grand Prints http://www.grandprints.com/ (818) 763-5743 Dr. Finkelstein, I am [...]
Read more →Editor’s note: For a detailed looked on the Israeli propaganda outfit known as MEMRI, see MEMRI NAZIS: How MEMRI doctored Finkelstein’s interview to protray him as a “Holocaust denier.” Memritv.org American political scientist Norman Finkelstein, ousted last fall from the faculty of DePaul University, appears on Lebanon TV to declare his support for Hezbollah. By [...]
Read more →By Gideon Levy One could not believe in the negotiations Israel is conducting with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank; one may also believe that the parties want to succeed, but cannot. One also may think that talks cannot proceed without the elected representation of the Palestinian people, who chose Hamas. There are also [...]
Read more →By Rhonda Spivak TORONTO – In an extensive study of Palestinian suicide bombings, three University of Toronto researchers have concluded that the bombers were not psychologically unstable and were often motivated by personal vengeance, not religious zeal. The study was carried out by political sociologist Robert Brym, with the assistance of two Ph.d students, Palestinian [...]
Read more →By Meron Rapoport More than 20 activists were wounded Friday as Israel Defense Forces troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas grenades at protesters marking three years of struggle against the West Bank separation fence in Bil’in. An American activist was among the wounded. The IDF Spokesman’s Office said one soldier was hurt when a [...]
Read more →By Lewis R. Gordon From the Editor During the last week of September 2007, the faculty in the Department of Religion and several colleagues in the College of Liberal Arts were looking forward to a reception that was organized in celebration of the endowed chair that was to be named in honor of Professor Ismail [...]
Read more →New York, NY, Feb 22 – Lev Leviev, the Israeli settlement builder and diamond mogul who has been accused of supporting human rights abuses in Angola, Burma, New York City and Palestine, is lending his jewelry to some attendees of the 80th annual Academy Awards this Sunday. The jewelry loan was reported by Warner Brothers [...]
Read more →Jerusalem, February 19, 2008 … Citing the widespread use of hate on the Internet, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged Israeli high tech companies to utilize their ingenuity to develop technology to confront anti-Semitism and bigotry on the Web. “The unintended result of the Internet is the dissemination of hate globally in nano-seconds under the [...]
Read more →Protests in front of new diamond store here latest in string of bad news for billionaire. by Walter Ruby Special To The Jewish Week Perhaps he should have stayed behind the scenes. Ever since billionaire diamond and real estate magnate Lev Leviev began to raise his profile and personalize his brand with the opening of [...]
Read more →By Amira Hass Not long ago the greengrocer in Ramallah recalled – between weighing locally grown zucchini and stripped hyssop leaves – that his family owns the land on which the gas station at the old entrance to the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank is located. He would not be surprised [...]
Read more →Press Release At Noon today, there at last arrived in their Gaza destination the goods carried in the supply convoy of the Israeli Peace and Human Rights organizations, two and a half weeks ago. After the authorization was given after long negotiations with the military authorities, some fifteen activists arrived this morning at the warehouses [...]
Read more →An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped arrest in the UK because British police feared an armed confrontation at Heathrow airport. By Dominic Casciani BBC News Documents seen by BBC News reveal how Major General Doron Almog managed to fly back to Israel when police failed to board his plane in September 2005. [...]
Read more →By Marissa Brostoff JDate users scouring the Jewish dating Web site in anticipation of Valentine’s Day may have found a surprising match. Lev Leviev, the controversial Israeli diamond mogul, had appeared to register a profile on the site, including such information as, “in my free time, I enjoy: Exploitation, Profiteering, Union-Busting, and Macrame.” The JDate [...]
Read more →Excerpt: To those who know the Harvard professor’s prolific drive, the project probably comes as no surprise. With what seems like an endless supply of energy, Dershowitz has turned out 27 works of fiction, two novels, and hundreds of articles over the years, not to mention his long and distinguished legal and teaching career. His [...]
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