Remember, if you’re not with us you’re with the terrorists. From the Newark Star-Ledger, May 21: Family waits for answers in hit-run Memorial grows for siblings killed in Roselle By yesterday afternoon, the curbside memorial along St. Georges Avenue had… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Dubious reports circulate that a bill pending in Iran would force Jews and other religious minorties to wear identifying insignia—in an obvious echo of Nazi Germany. Predictably, the Iranian regime is calling the allegations a Jewish conspiracy. From the Financial… Read moreIran: badges for Jews? No, but veils for women is bad enough, thank you
More arrests of Syrian opposition activists, and it appears some of them are being roughed up. From Lebanon’s Daily Star, May 20: BEIRUT: A prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who was arrested this week is being subject to beatings, his… Read moreSyria: detained dissidents beaten?
From the Egyptian groups Institute for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Arab Institute for Civil Society, Legal Aid Society for Human Rights, and The Civil Monitor for Human Rights, on May 21: On Thursday, May 18 activist Asmaa Mohammed Hassan… Read moreAction call: protest crackdown on Egyptian civil rights
From the JTA, May 20: Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said the supporter of the American… Read moreCongresswoman boycotts AIPAC
Israel is continuing “targetted assassinations” in supposedly unoccupied Gaza. But internecine Palestinian violence, alas, now seems equally efficient in killing off the Palestinian leadership. An Israeli missile strike on a car in Gaza City May 20 killed a top Islamic… Read morePalestine headed for civil war?
A front-page story in today’s New York Times paints an even more desperate picture of the deteriorating situation in Darfur than usual. Lydia Polgreen reports from Tina, a village that was overrun April 19 and the residents forced to flee… Read moreDarfur: rebel alliance splits
From the London Times, May 20: THE largest prisoner uprising yet at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre was reported by the US military yesterday as the UN watchdog on torture called for the camp to be shut down. The revolt… Read moreUprising at Gitmo
From Long Island Newsday, May 18: Two teenage girls and a 25-year-old man were killed Wednesday morning when their car rear-ended a parked tractor-trailer on a busy two-lane road in Brentwood, Suffolk police said. The 6:18 a.m. accident on Suffolk… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
More protests in Cairo, where last week when 255 people were arrested. Today, thousands of riot police and hundreds of plainclothes officers were deployed in streets leading to the courthouse in downtown Cairo as they attempted to prevent opposition activists… Read moreEgypt: protests continue; White House weighs in
A judicial ruling against a teacher who wore the hejab inspires an assassination of a judge—which in turn sparks a mass mobilization against the Islamists. Whatever one thinks of the Ataturk-era policy of mandatory secularism, the politics of this one… Read moreTurkey: mass pro-secular mobilization
More pendulum swings. Douglas Feith, former no. 3 at the Pentagon, Richard Perle, who served on a Pentagon Advisory board, and former undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz have all been the subject of investigations for their ties to Israel, according… Read moreAIPAC spy-trial backlash: Pentagon security clearances revoked
