On Sunday evening at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., J-Street opened its first ever-national policy conference. Officially founded over a year ago, the self-proclaimed "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobby was birthed amid controversy. ...
Geneva, Switzerland With the close last week of the United Nations Durban II Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerances, the world’s oppressed should feel no safer. What went on in Geneva was a spectacle ...
GENEVA – “For months we said that this conference is a circus, this conference is a masquerade,” President of the French Union of Jewish Students Raphael Haddad told me at the UN Durban II conference against racism in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday. ...
On the first day of the Durban II Conference, I interviewed a member of the Cuban delegation to the conference about human rights. Here are a couple of the excerpts. A link to the full interview is below. Jamie Weinstein (JW): Do you think they should ...
Geneva Before Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the stage and spouted his racist drivel at the UN Durban II Anti-Racism conference, I got a preview of what was to come while interviewing a delegate at the conference who is a part of an Iranian NGO. The ...
Things are looking brighter in Iraq, according to a recently released poll of Iraqis conducted at the end of February. The poll was sponsored by ABC, the BBC and Japan’s NHK. Jamie Weinstein is a syndicated columnist with North Star Writers ...
True to his campaign pledge, President Obama signed an executive order soon after being sworn in that demanded the Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) prison facilities housing War on Terror detainees to be shut down within a year. As expected, his many supporters ...
Ariela Rutkin-Becker overflows with feeling in her recent article “The Wrong to Remain Silent,” but unfortunately she lets this emotion get in the way of reason. You don't have a heart if you do not feel pain for each and every innocent Palestinian ...
LONDON -- While a unilateral Israeli cease-fire has at least temporarily brought some calm to the recent conflict in the Holy Land, the same cannot be said about the tensions on the campus of the London School of Economics. Since students returned ...
Were conservatives wrong about Barack Obama? I know, I know. It is way too early to begin to assess Obama's administration and its policies. After all, the man does not really even have an administration yet and won't for over a month. Still, many ...
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