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Seeing Red Over Green’s Israel Policy
Local leaders of the Green Party are working to overturn an anti-Israel resolution that has become official party policy.
Cartoon Tension at UC Irvine
The showing of three cartoons of the prophet Muhammad at a conference last week on radical Islam at UC Irvine attracted a near-capacity crowd of about 400, including leaders of some local Jewish groups, while protesters demonstrated outside.
Cowboys & Indians
One thing that stands out is this: Hollywood is making Westerns again, but this time, the Indians are Arab.\n\nI\’m not talking about the early Hollywood Indian — a cartoon bad guy or buffoon who spoke pigeon English and was played by a white guy.
Thanks for Everything
At Chanukah we celebrate the miraculous rededication of the Second Temple by Judah Maccabee. In so doing the festival\’s complex historical background fades to backstory. The part we more typically overlook is that the Maccabean revolt was not just a struggle versus Antiochus, an anti-Jewish ruler, but against a larger group of Jews who wanted to be more Greek and less Jewish.
ADL Stokes Fear as Ploy to Raise Funds
Devoted to fighting anti-Jewish bigotry, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is America\’s most influential Jewish group. So what are we to make of the weird air of unreality in the ADL\’s public statements about Christians?
Calendars Remove Anti-Israel Day
The annihilation of Israel is the raison d\’etre of the \”holiday\” that the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini created after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It is marked with anti-Israel demonstrations in some Islamic countries, as well as in cities with large Muslim populations outside the Islamic world.
Sowing Islamic Seeds in Students
Georgetown\’s Middle East outreach program is one of 18 affiliated with federally designated national resource centers, each of which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds under Title VI of the Higher Education Act.
Textbook Battle Hits California
The state of California is on the brink of a major election that involves neither Arnold Schwarzenegger nor Clint Eastwood. The candidates are textbooks and other teaching materials that will influence what schoolchildren across the state — and across the United States — will learn for more than a decade.
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