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Julian Assange's WikiLeaks made history unleashing an archive of some 400,000 documents which confirm some of the worst fears and suspicions about the nature of the illegal US-led occupation of Iraq.
Attitudes towards the Other within Judaism lie in myth, narrative, legend, and law. The narrative of differentiation occupies a central place in Judaism and infuses the development of both its laws and identity.
John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad, Kogan Page Ltd, 2010, Hardcover.
On Nov. 2, 38 Nobel Laureates signed a statement denouncing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli academic institutions, academics, research centers and training facilities.
Before I went to Montreal on October 22 to attend the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions event held at the campus of the University of Quebec at Montreal, I came across an article in the webzine Shalom Life. "Among the speakers will be Bongani Masuku, a top official in the Confederation of South African Trade Unions who has been found guilty by the South African Human Rights Commission of anti-Semitic hate speech."
Last week, a U.S. military court sentenced Canadian citizen and former child combatant Omar Khadr was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for killing a U.S. soldier. Upon hearing the verdict, Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney uttered this priceless piece of understatement: "Justice was not served today."
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared, in front of young members of her Christian Democratic Union party, that multiculturalism is dead in Germany, it fit a pattern whereby extremist views are becoming more commonplace and more acceptable in the mainstream of European society.
Throughout her trial in New York Dr. Aafia Siddiqui tried in vain to sack her legal team as is the right of any defendant in any court in the world today.
What is the difference between a young person in care with the Children’s Aid Society who makes a successful transition to adult life and one who does not? According to Kelly Raymond, a social worker with the Ottawa Children's Aid Society (CAS) currently working on a doctorate from the University of Montreal, stability is the key. If a child has the same foster family throughout childhood, that child has a better chance of making it.
The conference opened on October 22 with a panel composed of Areej Ja'fari, Stephen Faulkner, and Omar Barghouti. Ja'fari coordinates the West Bank Palestine Freedom Project and has organized BDS campaigns in refugee camps. Faulkner was there representing the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). His talk drove the hall wild. Omar Barghouti is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for BDS and the author of The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, soon to be published in English. A French version is already available.
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