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LDB Urges University of Texas to Condemn Recent Attack on Free Speech

  LDB Urges University of Texas to Condemn Recent Attack on Free Speech Yesterday, the Brandeis Center sent out a letter to University of Texas at Austin President Gregory L. Fenves urging him to condemn a recent attack on free speech on his campus. The Center wrote in response to an event on Friday, November 13, in which an anti-Israel student group brazenly disrupted an academic discussion of Israel.  LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus commented,

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Can Anything Save the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?

Can Anything Save the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process? As the decades-long struggle threatens to boil over, there are four concrete steps the international community can take to help the peace along. By NANCY LINDBORG, Foreign Policy 13 November 2015 In Jerusalem, the view of the golden glow of Old City walls from Mount Zion at sunset presents a deceptive calm. All around, rising tensions are threatening to turn the frozen political struggle

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Mobilizing Christians About Middle East Persecution

Mobilizing the Christians The Washington Times 30 July 2015   Image: A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, outside of the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)   The churches must demand a

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U.N. Report on Gaza Finds Evidence of War Crimes by Israel and by Palestinian Militants

U.N. Report on Gaza Finds Evidence of War Crimes by Israel and by Palestinian Militants Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times 22 June 2015   Image: Palestinian houses destroyed by Israeli shelling in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in 2014. CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times JERUSALEM — A United Nations investigation found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” that “may amount to war crimes” by both Israel and Palestinian militants

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OP-ED: The U.N.’s War on Israel by Israel Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor

The U.N.'s War on Israel Ron Prosor, The New York Times 31 March 2015 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. It was intended to be a temple of peace, but this once great global body has been overrun by the repressive regimes that violate human rights and undermine international security. In 1949, when the United Nations admitted Israel as a member state, it had 58 member countries and about half had a

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry Issues Report Defending Conduct in Gaza War

Israel’s Foreign Ministry Issues Report Defending Conduct in Gaza War Jodi Rudoren, New York Times 14 June 2015   Image: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a forthcoming United Nations study was an "automatic indictment against Israel." Credit: Pool photo by Gali Tibbon JERUSALEM — In a pre-emptive strike against a forthcoming United Nations report on the war last year between Israel and Palestinianmilitants in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s

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Israel sees migrant tragedy as validating policy of keeping them away

Israel sees migrant tragedy as validating policy of keeping them away Reuters 20 April 2015   (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday the drowning of hundreds of Africans off Libya's coast was tragic but validated its own policy of having buffered its land barriers with Africa to keep migrants away. Yisrael Katz, transport minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's outgoing cabinet, called the deaths in the Mediterranean a "tragedy that shocks

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Rwanda confirms finalizing deal with Israel to accept asylum seekers

Rwanda confirms finalizing deal with Israel to accept asylum seekers Ilan Lior, Haaertz News  5 April 2015   Rwanda is finalizing a deal to accept Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers deported by Israel, and Uganda will consider doing so, African newspapers have reported, citing Rwandan and Ugandan officials. Israel said last week that two African countries had agreed to accept asylum seekers, but Jerusalem declined to give the countries’

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Iran Backs Away From Key Detail in Nuclear Deal

Iran Backs Away From Key Detail in Nuclear Deal David E. Sanger and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times 29 March 2015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland — With a negotiating deadline just two days away, Iranian officials on Sunday backed away from a critical element of a proposed nuclear agreement, saying they are no longer willing to ship their atomic fuel out of the country. For months, Iran tentatively agreed that it would send a large portion of its stockpile

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Israel accused at UN over Gaza war casualties

Israel accused at UN over Gaza war casualties BBC News Middle East 23 March 2015 The scale of civilian deaths in Gaza during the 2014 war with Israel puts Israel's adherence to international law in doubt, a UN official has said. In his annual report, the special rapporteur also said many children were left traumatised by the 50-day conflict. Israel and its ally the US were both absent from the debate at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.

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