Middle East

By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – The British government of Theresa May officially adopted on Dec. 12 a new definition of anti-Semitism that includes legitimate criticism of Israel. The definition was adopted earlier in the year by a pro-Israeli group IHRA, although it was considered but abandoned by the European anti-racism […]

Haredim

Can Israeli institutions include both more Women and more Gender-Segregating Orthodox?

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Shulamit Almog | (The Conversation) | – – In one sense, women are making great strides in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). In October, the army declared it was examining the possibility of allowing women to serve in new combat positions, including in tank crews. In the same month, Major Reut (whose last name is […]

Featured

Why do they Hate Putin’s Freedoms? Russian Ambassador assassinated in Turkey

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is not entirely clear why Mevlut Altintas, a young policeman in, ironically, a counter-terrorism unit in the Turkish capital of Ankara, shot Andrei Karlov– the Russian ambassador to Turkey– in the back on Monday. Was he a lone wolf? Part of a far-right Muslim vigilante […]

Israel Lobbies

Jewish Students and Scholars Object to US Bill Banning Criticism of Israel

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By IMEMC | – – Jewish scholars and students have released statements urging the US House of Representatives and President Obama to reject the controversial “Antisemitism Awareness Act”. In a recent initiative by US based organization Jewish Voice for Peace, Jewish scholars and students signed statements urging both the House of Representatives, as well as […]

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Admits to Using Illegal UK Cluster Bombs in Yemen

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TeleSur | – – “If Saudi forces are prepared to use cluster bombs, then why is the U.K. continuing to arm and support the regime?” a campaigner asked. Saudi Arabia admitted Monday it used illegal U.K.-made cluster bombs in Yemen as the Gulf state continues its aggressive air campaign there, backed with the help of […]

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Trump’s Jerusalem embassy Move an Invitation to Terrorism: 9/11 Provoked in part by Israeli Occupation

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Incoming President Trump has repeatedly pledged to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and he just proposed the appointment of a Zionist supremacist as ambassador to Israel, who equates American Jews who oppose squatting on Palestinian land in the West Bank as collaborators with the Nazis. […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Squatters at Palestine’s Amona accept relocation to other Palestinian-owned Land

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Ma’a News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Residents of the illegal settlement outpost of Amona in the central occupied West Bank voted on Sunday to approve a relocation plan put forward by the Israeli government, after weeks of discussions trying to assuage settler anger over the mandated evacuation of the outpost. Israeli news […]

Israel/ Palestine

Point by Point Response to Likud Party Propaganda

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By Jeffrey Rudolph | ( Detailed Political Quizzes ) | – – As Israel’s myriad human rights abuses and contraventions of international law have become impossible to deny, one argument that apologists for Israel routinely fall back on is: While Israel has engaged in human rights and other abuses, other countries commit far worse abuses. […]

Iraq

Could Iraqi Parliament Recognition of Shiite Militias re-Tribalize the Sunnis?

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By Ibrahim Saleh | (Baghdad) | Niqash.org | – – Although many Sunni politicians tried to block the passage of a November law that legitimized Iraq’s Shiite volunteer militias, some did not. They want the 30,000 or so Sunni volunteer fighters to get their share too. In late November, the Iraqi government passed the controversial […]