An attempt to curtail freedom of speech or legitimate complaint? Germany’s national Jewish body said Thursday it has filed suit against YouTube and its parent company Google, demanding a court order for the site to be permanently purged of anti-Semitic videos. Stephan Kramer, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in…
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Praying before the Zionist religion
The following advertisement by Israeli peace group Gush Shalom appears in Haaretz on March 21: [German Chancellor] Kanzlerin Merkel Made a pilgrimage to Israel And groveled before Olmert and Barak. Before and after her, Other world leaders Did the same They did not do Any good to Israel. They hurt it. Real friends of Israel…
Freedom without men
Welcome to gender apartheid, Saudi-style: For a country that goes to such great lengths to segregate unrelated men and women, it took Saudi Arabia a long time to hit on the idea of women-only hotels. The kingdom’s first hotel exclusively for females opened yesterday, offering plush lodgings with a full-range of health and beauty facilities…
The Howard/Bush/Blair legacy
Ali, a painter and a student at the academy of art in north Baghdad, tells the Guardian about life in his occupied country: “I ask myself why life in Iraq is so cheap. We are living in a nightmare. It is like there is a camera recording us and by its light we see images…
Making the (wrong) kind of friends online
From al-Qaeda’s “MySpace” to your garden variety suicide bombing?
Iraq five years on
My latest New Matilda column reflects on the five years since the invasion of Iraq: Five years after the start of the Iraq war, a clear majority of Iraqis want American troops to leave. The results of the latest ORB/Channel 4 study are disturbing. The human cost of the conflict is starkly revealed: “A quarter…
The poison of occupation
A disturbing but unsurprising poll result: A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem that killed eight young men, most of them teenagers, an indication of the alarming level of Israeli-Palestinian tension in recent weeks. The survey also shows unprecedented support for…
Death by cruelty
An imprisoned man in Guantanamo Bay is told he has AIDS and authorities refuse him access to a lawyer or medical help. This is America, 2008.
