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August 23, 2013 Israel Lives in a Dangerous Neighborhood, Struggles Against Terrorism and is Engaged in a Battle for Justice at the United Nations

Over the past sixty five years, Israel has faced and continues to face momentous challenges including wars, skirmishes, rocket attacks, terrorist murderous suicide bombings and assaults on her citizens, challenges to her legal status, boycotts, threats, accusations and demonization. In the summer of 2000, Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization met at Camp […]
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August 18, 2013 Alice Walker Got What She Deserves

Bravo to the University of Michigan for disinviting Alice Walker – and shame on Walker for reportedly spreading false rumors about Michigan’s reasons for doing so.  The University of Michigan recently withdrew a speaking invitation to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, who is now known not only for her literary work but […]
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August 2, 2013 Joel Siegal Explains Anti-Bullying Litigation

LDB Legal Advisor and San Francisco civil rights litigator Joel Siegal has posted an informative article on his blog which discusses the use of courts to eliminate bullying in the school.  Siegal is counsel to Jessica Felber in her campus anti-Semitism case against the University of California at Berkeley.  With attorney Neal Sher, he filed a […]
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August 2, 2013 Germany Should Act Against Those Who Invoke “Free Speech” to Destroy Its Still-Fragile Democracy

The recent “New York Times’” headline—“Wiesenthal Center Calls for Closing of German Magazine It Says Glorifies Nazism”—reflects what may an ominous divergence in German and American attitudes toward Nazism. As recently as the 1960’s when “Hogan’s Heroes” was a hit television sitcom, “comic Nazis”—inept and even innocuous—were in vogue. The reason may have been that […]
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July 31, 2013 “Zionist Entity” Enters the Blogosphere

A smart new blog on Israel, anti-Semitism and the Middle East, provocatively entitled the “Zionist Entity,” has just quietly been launched.  Although it has not yet announced itself in any formal way, its first entries are already garnering considerable buzz internationally for its fresh, clever, irreverent style and wit.  We are pleased to see that […]
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July 29, 2013 Who’s Right About the European Extreme Right?

Historian James Mayfield offers a provocative, contrarian view of Europe’s extreme Right in “Explaining the Rapid Rise of the Xenophobic Right in Contemporary Europe” in the journal, “GeoCurrents” (July 22). It’s not that he likes the Right. It’s that he questions the popular view that right-wing European extremism is a uniform, continent-wide phenomenon that can […]
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July 25, 2013 SPME Fellowships Available

Our friends at Scholars for Peace in the Middle East are announcing fellowships to enable junior scholars to deliver papers at academic conferences.  In addition to providing useful information on Israel and the Middle East, SPME has also historically been interested in campus anti-Semitism and academic freedom.  These issues are, of course, central to our […]
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