Troubled by an anti-gay movement in Uganda and across much of the world, the U.S. is launching a new effort to combat what Secretary of State John Kerry described Wednesday as a threat to human rights. Comparing a harsh Uganda … Continue reading
One month into 2014, Islam-related controversies continued making headlines in newspapers across Europe. The most salient topic involved the dramatic increase in the numbers of European jihadists participating in the war in Syria. An ominous foreboding is unfolding over Europe, … Continue reading
Below is a small peak into the alleys of Los Angeles. There is a ongoing discussion about the future of these often nameless thoroughfares. In South LA a new city planing project wants to enhance the neighborhood through transforming it’s … Continue reading
The world judges Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his government by truly meek standards. How else can you explain the rot with which the Palestinians get away with, while supposedly engaged in a peace process with Israel? Abbas’s minions … Continue reading
Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi hunter told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that a cartoon published by Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) last week brought to mind a cartoon from 1938 Nazi Germany. SZ had published a cartoon depicting Facebook founder … Continue reading
Evidently, most Western governments, journalists and human rights organizations have chosen to endorse the Palestinian Authority’s stance that the only evil-doers are the Israelis. And that is precisely why the ICHR report on the anarchy, lawlessness and human rights violations … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s words in Hamlet ring true as Denmark bans kosher slaughter, but condoned butchering Jews. Behind the humanitarian mask, there is nothing. Denmark’s government has banned the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals. The minister for agriculture and food, Dan Jørgensen, … Continue reading
In a 2011 blog post titled “A Few Notes on WHAT IS LEFT (or Toward a Manifesto for Revolutionary Emancipation),” the prominent radical intellectual Richard Falk endeavored to distill “what remains of the historic left” into a program of contemporary … Continue reading
Few seemed to be listening earlier this week when the Palestinian Authority released a list of red lines that in practice meant an outright rejection of Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace framework. Prior to this, noises were coming from … Continue reading
There has never been such a thing as the “Arab Spring”; a true Arab spring can only develop when the Arabs start developing civil societies. But until now the value systems of ethnicity and tribalism, which fit organically within the … Continue reading
