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One legacy of the decade since 9/11 has been the growing fear of Muslims and Islam.
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.
(Toronto) Amira Hass - the daughter of Holocaust survivors - a reporter and columnist for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz says she is the only Israeli Jewish journalist living and working in the occupied Palestinian territories. Now based in the city of Ramallah, she has lived in the West Bank since 1997 and in Gaza for four years before that.
This is what I sent to The Gazette:
Between March 7th and March 20th, campuses in Canada, the United States, Europe, South Africa, the Palestinian territories, and elsewhere, did/will host Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) in an effort to raise consciousness about the nature of Israel's rule over Palestinians.
(Damascus) How many of you remember Monty Python's dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it is often cited in doomed or desperate situations when a bit of gallows humour is needed.
University of Athabasca History professor Joe Kelly said apartheid is an accurate description of the Israeli government policy.
We have never been so ugly. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu seeks to silence the call to prayer over the loudspeakers of the country's mosques, and to shut down Channel 10 television.
"Peace is not a process. It is a state of being. You either have it or not. The Palestinians have not had peace since 1949. They have been under siege." That is how Trevor Purvis, Carleton University professor of international law summed up the situation of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in Israel itself.
With the recent formation of The Emergency Committee for Israel, the neoconservative and Likudnik characters on the American right have stepped up their anti-Iranian lobbying efforts. Among other things, they have again brought up how a nuclear Iran would pose an "imminent threat" that would tear the region apart.
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