UC teaching assistants vow Israel boycott

SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – Following a scathing antisemitic statement released by the Union of Student Workers promoting the boycott of Israel and exclaiming the need to “educate” others on the “settler-colonial” and “apartheid” nature of the Jewish state, eleven groups, today, urged University of California President Napolitano to intervene and ensure that hate-filled

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Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: August 12, 2014

Known anti-Israel critic appointed head of UNHRC Gaza probe (JNS.org) Known anti-Israel critic William Schabas, a Canadian professor of international law, has been selected to head a three-person investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into the Gaza conflict, which the Israeli government slammed as a “kangaroo court.” Schabas in the past has called

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Travel and Food

Foreign journalists denounce Gaza’s press tactics

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Foreign Press Association in Israel including almost 500 members from all parts of the media from 32 countries, issued a statement protesting “in the strongest terms the blatant, incessant, forceful and unorthodox methods employed by the Hamas authorities and their representatives against visiting international journalists in Gaza over the past month.”

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International, Middle East

Law would crack down on gangs’ human trafficking

SACRAMENTO (Press Release) – San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis joined Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach and Senator Marty Block (D-San Diego) on Monday, Aug. 11,  to urge passage of a bill to treat human trafficking crimes committed by gang members with the same severity as 33 other gang offenses and another measure

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San Diego County, USA

Hillary Clinton: Anti- Semitism motivates Israel critics

NEW YORK (WJC) –Former American Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is identifying anti-Semitism as an important motivation for the international criticism of Israel’s incursion in Gaza, according to a new interview. “It is striking … that you have more than 170,000 people dead in Syria. … You have Russia massing battalions—Russia, that actually annexed

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Middle East, USA

Gazans’ economic well-being requires peace

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Hamas resumed rocketing Israel on Friday, August 8, one surety was that Israel’s office of “Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip)” [COGAT] would continue operating as it has through gruesome acts of terror against Jews, “intifadas,” rocket attacks and kidnappings through tunnels.

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA