Category
February 9, 2010
Protesters Interrupt UCLA Lecture on Goldstone Report
Outside UCLA School of Law on the evening of February 8, a tense, anticipatory group sat in a small circle, chatting and trying to stay warm. Inside, Daniel Taub, Principal Deputy Legal Advisor of Israel\’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs began the evening’s lecture.
Protesters Arrested at UC Irvine as Israel Ambassador Speaks [VIDEO]
At a speech given Monday evening on the University of California Irvine campus by Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassor to the United States, campus police arrested 12 young adults, including three UCI students, among them the president of the university’s Muslim Student Union (MSU). The arrests were for persistent unruly disruptions of the event in what witnesses called a “coordinated attack.”
Toyota crashes into N.Y. synagogue steps
An elderly man said his Toyota car\’s accelerator stuck, causing him to crash into the steps of a New York synagogue.
Russian official: Iran nuclear program testing world’s patience
Iran\’s decision to enrich uranium to higher levels has raised new doubts about Tehran\’s nuclear program and is testing the patience of the global community, Russian officials said Tuesday.
NIF fracas: Defending Israel or destroying democracy?
A campaign against the New Israel Fund — a U.S.-based organization that funds civil society activists in Israel — has sparked a fierce debate over the limits of free speech, the financing of NGOs, the dictates of loyalty to the state and, ultimately, over the fundamental values of Israel\’s Zionist democracy.