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Protests mount against SFSU professor’s trip

July 22, 2014

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Citing broad academic and community outrage, seven groups on Tuesday, July 22, urged the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees, the group with ultimate authority over educational and fiscal matters at SFSU and all CSU schools, to launch its own investigation into San Francisco State University (SFSU) Professor Rabab […]

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Three FM’s denounce growing European anti- Semitism

July 22, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)- The American Jewish Committee welcome the powerful statement issued Tuesday, July 22, on European anti-Semitism by the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Italy. “At a time when ‘Death to the Jews’ chants can be heard at public gatherings in European capitals, allegedly in protests against Israel, the bold, timely and

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International, Middle East

‘Moderate’ Islam no longer exists as a world force

July 22, 2014

The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam—Barack Hussein Obama By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — When we look at the violence that is taking place throughout the cities of Europe, it is clear that Jihadist Islam (a.k.a. Radical Islam) is no longer an aberration. When someone

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

JNs news briefs: July 22, 2014

July 22, 2014

20,000 people attend funeral of IDF soldier from Texas (JNS.org) In response to a widespread social media campaign to honor a fallen soldier, some 20,000 people crowded the military cemetery in Haifa on Monday evening for the funeral of Staff Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, one of two U.S. citizens killed in fighting in Gaza on

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International, Middle East, USA

Close- quarter fighting in Gaza War

July 22, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)– IDF forces continued on Tuesday, July 22, to move slowly through the Gazan neighborhoods of Shuja’iya, Jabalya and Beit Lahiya, searching for terror tunnels, weapons caches and terrorist command and control centers. Fighting was fierce and intense, as Hamas, which dug these tunnels at great cost, does not want to

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Middle East

Mob Museum chronicles Jewish gangsters

July 22, 2014

-Ninth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison LAS VEGAS, Nevada – In a former courthouse where U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tennessee) once held a hearing to expose the extent to which Organized Crime had corrupted America, Las Vegas today presents “The Mob Museum,” an interactive set of exhibits tracing the rise and fall of

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Pulitzer Prize winner gets it wrong — again

July 21, 2014

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, who has written op-ed columns for The New York Times since 2001. Kristof generally highlights human rights abuse and social injustice. His article of July 19, “Who’s Right and Wrong in the Middle East” is not his

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Humoring the Headlines: July 21, 2014

July 21, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Hamas agreed to accept all the unaccompanied minors who have sought asylum in the United States so long as they don’t mind living in tents above missile and weapon caches. * The Pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels suspected of downing Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 have analyzed its black box and concluded that the

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Wait before you judge a country

July 21, 2014

By Danielle Rose Gilson AURORA, Illinois — Wait before you judge a country. Wait until you have seen it. Wait until you hear cheering and celebration as your plane lands. Wait until you see fields of mines next to fields of sunflowers and cows. Wait until you stand on the border and hear explosions from

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Middle East, USA

Can the Gaza War bring Israel any benefits?

July 21, 2014

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Protective Edge is still an operation, but may be on its way to a war. This is not a happy time, but there may be cause for optimism. Hourly and half-hourly news programs begin with the names of the most recent soldiers who have died, plus the times and locations

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Israel, not Gaza, is the victim of this conflict

July 21, 2014

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–Seeming to give credence to Orwell’s observation that “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence,” the world’s attention has turned once again to the clash between Hamas and Israel, as the Jewish state

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts

U.S., U.N. to provide financial aid to Gaza civilians

July 21, 2014

CAIRO, Egypt (Press Release)–The United States and the United Nations announced a joint package of humanitarian aid to the civilians of Gaza who have been caught in the crossfire between the Hamas government and Israel. Here is a transcript of a joint news conference held in Cairo on Monday, July 21, by U.S. Secretary of

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International, Middle East, USA

AJC denounces Erdogan’s ‘incendiary’ rhetoric

July 21, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release) —the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has expressed its outrage over the incendiary rhetoric of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose continuous verbal assaults on Israel have fueled violent demonstrations against Israeli diplomatic outposts and created a permissive environment for attacks on Jews. In recent days mobs have attacked Israel’s embassy

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Middle East, USA

Another major Hamas incursion thwarted by IDF

July 21, 2014

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — Ten Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel early Monday morning, July 21, via a terror tunnel, entering between the Erez checkpoint and the community of Nir Am. The group split into two contingents. An IDF observation unit spotted the terrorists and forces were alerted. One contingent was attacked by

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Middle East

Protests mount against SFSU professor’s trip

Three FM’s denounce growing European anti- Semitism

‘Moderate’ Islam no longer exists as a world force

JNs news briefs: July 22, 2014

Close- quarter fighting in Gaza War

Mob Museum chronicles Jewish gangsters

Pulitzer Prize winner gets it wrong — again

Humoring the Headlines: July 21, 2014

Wait before you judge a country

Can the Gaza War bring Israel any benefits?

Israel, not Gaza, is the victim of this conflict

U.S., U.N. to provide financial aid to Gaza civilians

AJC denounces Erdogan’s ‘incendiary’ rhetoric

Another major Hamas incursion thwarted by IDF

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