Boy, things are really getting out of hand. Here’s how the European double standard on free speech paradoxically legitimizes and strengthens Holocaust revisionism. Europe defends Islamophobia in the name of freedom of expression, while denying that same freedom to the… Read morePoland blasts Tehran’s Holocaust “fact-finding” trip
Hooray! We have had our problems with Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt before—last year we had to call her out for defending the dangerous notion of what her critics call “Jewish exclusivism” as genocide victims. But in the current poisonous atmosphere,… Read moreLipstadt defends Irving
The Dalai Lama just visited Israel, where no Israeli official would meet with him. According to the following account, a Palestinian NGO also agreed to cancel his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories at China’s request. From the Middle East… Read more“Separatist” Dalai Lama snubbed by Palestinians
Now, obviously the reality of Abu Ghraib and the Iraq horrorshow generally is an essential backdrop to the anti-cartoon protests. But isn’t there something pretty sick about the paucity of coverage the release of the new torture photos has received… Read moreIraq torture images in the news …barely
On Feb. 16 Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) declared former president Rene Garcia Preval (1996-2001) the winner of the Feb. 7 presidential election. The declaration followed an agreement the night before that the CEP would leave some of the 85,000… Read moreHaiti: Preval declared winner after week of protests
Hundreds of Dominican activists have reportedly held a series of demonstrations recently to protest the presence of 800 US soldiers in Barahona, capital of the southwestern province of Barahona. In one protest, apparently on Feb. 14, demonstrators gathered in the… Read moreDominican Republic: protests against US troops
During the week of Jan. 30, US federal judge G. Mallon Faircloth in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced 31 activists to prison terms of as much as six months for peacefully entering the US Army’s Fort Benning on Nov. 20 as part… Read moreSOA protesters get prison
On Feb. 6 police arrested six leftist activists in the community of Antebi Cue, town of Sgto. Jose Felix Lopez (also known as Puentesinho), in San Carlos municipality in the northeastern Paraguayan department of Concepcion, near the border with Brazil…. Read moreParaguay: activists arrested in guerilla scare
From Haartez, Feb. 19: Jewish group: Try Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is set to file a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to… Read moreGenocide incitement charges for Ahmadinejad?
From Mexico’s El Universal, Feb. 16, via the Miami Herald: Fox calls for probe in Lydia Cacho case The governor of Puebla is under fire after he is allegedly heard discussing the jailing of a journalist on a tape released… Read moreFree speech under attack in Mexico
From the Times of India, Feb. 19: ISLAMABAD: Security forces put a cordon around the Pakistani capital and made hundreds of arrests, before using tear gas and gunfire to quash a banned protest Sunday against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,… Read moreTear gas and gunfire in Islamabad
The anti-cartoon protests in Pakistan seem to be mounting towards a national revolutionary movement. The government has banned the latest march in Islamabad, arrested some 200 followeres of the organization that called it, and placed its leader under house arrest…. Read moreProtests banned in Pakistan; opposition vows defiance
