This is a wonderful article (kindly passed along by a reader). Writing in the Guardian, German writer Alan Posener documents the growing voices that are begging the Jewish community to stop “wailing” about the Holocaust, use the catastrophe as a crutch and insulate themselves from criticism of Israel. Time to grow up: Even today, there…
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Where does the hatred for Islam come from?
Muslims are the new Jews: Close to half of Americans admit to harboring prejudice against Muslims and negative feelings about Islam, a new study from the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies shows. The level of anti-Muslim prejudice — 43 percent of Americans admitted feeling at least “a little” — is more than twice as high…
It’s socially acceptable to denigrate Palestinians
In a Sunday New York Times magazine feature about the Little Green Footballs blog – a once virulently bigoted website that seemed to thrive on hating Arabs, Muslims and anybody who didn’t crave American bombing campaigns – founder Charles Johnson is shown to have tolerated the sadly common bile directed at Palestinians: If the tone…
What is the breaking point of Tehran?
Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis was briefly imprisoned in Iran last year during the political turmoil. Now based in Istanbul, he writes in the LA Times that the Islamic Republic may be on its last legs: “The current regime has broken the social bonds that tie it to the public and thus is eventually due to…
Life on the streets in Iran, an eyewitness perspective
On the ground reports from Iran are hard to obtain these days. Western journalists are largely writing stories about the political chaos in the country. So I’m publishing this exclusive report from a friend currently in Tehran. He’s an Australian traveling around the country. Names and identifiable places have been removed to protect all concerned:…
Political islam in the US client state of Egypt is refreshed
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has a new leader.
Why does Washington make it so easy to dislike her?
“Any association with the (Yemeni) regime will only confirm al Qaida’s narrative, which is that America is only interested in maintaining corrupt and despotic rulers and is not interested in the fate of Arabs and Muslims,” warned Bernard Haykel, a Princeton University professor.
One small victory in rejecting Zionist attempts to build over Muslim memories
Back in September I introduced in Sydney Saree Makdisi who spoke extensively about Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Museum of Tolerance in Israel. The dream is apparently over: After years of protests and an unsuccessful legal challenge, architect Frank Gehry has pulled out of a project to build a Jerusalem counterpart to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum…
How to make Muslims hate the West in one easy step
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (retired) has a wonderful suggestion to keep America safe (and radicalise Muslims even more): If you are an 18-28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip searched. And if we don’t do that there’s a very high probability we’re going to lose an airline.
Is the US capable of not only sending missiles to help Yemen?
Patrick Cockburn in the Independent on Washington’s seeming desperation to fall into al-Qaeda’s trap again and again and escalate militaristic policies in a Muslim land: There is ominous use by American politicians and commentators of the phrase “failed state” in relation to Yemen, as if this some how legitimised foreign intervention. It is extraordinary that…