The World Jewish Congress called on the International Olympic Committee to bar Iran from the 2012 Games until the country allows its athletes to compete against Israelis.
President Mahmoud Abbas urged Palestinians on Wednesday to step up peaceful protests against Israel, urging \”popular resistance\” inspired by the Arab Spring to back a diplomatic offensive at the United Nations.
The Zionist Organization of America has filed a complaint against Rutgers University alleging that the school fostered a hostile environment toward Jewish students.
Palestinians are ready for statehood but prevented by the deadlock in peacemaking with Israel, the United Nations\’ special Middle East envoy said.
In 1980, for the umpteenth time, someone asked the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal whether “it could happen again” — “it” being the Holocaust. “You take hatred and technology and you add in a crisis, and anything can happen,” Wiesenthal replied. Last week, something tragic, horrific, almost beyond words happened.
It’s a little too soon for Time magazine to name its Person of the Year, but I want to put in an early vote for Rumana Monzur, who on June 5 was brutalized by her husband in their Bangladesh home and has decided to speak out on behalf of all abused women.
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