Shouldn't Be Using The W-Word
Professor Robert Thorson needs a lecture in political correctness [Nov. 28, column, "JFK And The Demise...
View ArticleAn ideal for which I am prepared to die - part 1
I am the first accused. I hold a bachelor's degree in arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five...
View ArticleThese Words You Use Every Day Have Racist/Prejudice Origins, And You Had No...
When I was a kid, everyone used the phrase Indian giver. We didn't even think about it. We weren't reprimanded by teachers, either. Admittedly, I went to grade school in Texas. To me, it seems odd...
View ArticleJudge says NY must be fair with bus ads
A federal judge today ordered the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to accept an advertisement for the sides of buses that pleads, “In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage,...
View ArticleFreedom of Expression and the Hypocrisy of Limits
“Derogatory, disrespectful and inflammatory,” were the words used to describe this exercise of free expression. These words were not used to describe the Innocence of Muslims movie, but were uttered by...
View ArticleIsrael and ‘Pinkwashing’
“IN dreams begin responsibilities,” wrote Yeats in 1914. These words resonate with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who have witnessed dramatic shifts in our relationship to power. After...
View ArticleWJC Backgrounder: Animal Welfare or Antisemitism? The Assault on Shechita...
(Source: World Jewish Congress) July 2013 At Issue In recent months, debate regarding the banning of shechitaand hallal[slaughter in accordance with Jewish and Islamic law respectively] has been...
View ArticleInterview series: Bullying Jewish students on campus; addendum on UC Berkeley
Related topics anti-SemitismUC BerkeleyPeter Menkininterview Advertisement Free speech is one type of cherished speech, but there are others. Intelligent speech is just as important, ideas of merit...
View ArticleWhy Can Neil Patrick Harris Say That’s ‘Too Gay’ and Straights Can’t?
Every other Tuesday, Steven Petrow, the author of “Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” (Workman, 2011), addresses questions about gay and straight etiquette for a boomer-age audience....
View ArticleKeeping society civil: the best of all worlds?
‘If this is the best of all possible worlds,” asks Voltaire in his 1759 novel Candide, “what then are the others?” Just asking the question got the great French writer into a bundle of trouble: his...
View ArticleArab revolutions and Neoliberal illusions
Words “are witnesses which often speak louder than documents,” wrote Eric Hobsbawm in ‘The Age of Revolution 1789-1848.’ And in an age of Arab Revolutions (2010- ), words have become effective lethal...
View ArticleCOLUMN: Openness all the world can see
WASHINGTON In the early days of the Arab revolutions, it seemed as if a smartphone might be enough to break the power of repressive governments. These little devices could gather crowds, yes, but...
View ArticleDavid Ignatius: Openness all the world can see
In the early days of the Arab revolutions, it seemed as if a smartphone might be enough to break the power of repressive governments. These little devices could gather crowds, yes, but even more...
View ArticleThe Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Support Theocracy
If you check "About Us" on the web site of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, you'll find very little about the organization. Although they do make it a point to claim they are...
View ArticleAnders Breivik's twisted time machine
A virtue of Anders Breivik's 1,500 page opus is that, by so thoroughly and heavily citing the leaders of the anti-Islam creed, his arguments are inseparable from theirs. Indeed, the more honest...
View ArticleFBI expert: Quran is 'revealed word of God'
The FBI has censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics, including a change that was made because an agency “expert” insisted the Quran “is the revealed word of...
View ArticleFundamentalist Christian Monsters: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me tell you of monsters and monstrous wrongs. And let me tell you what these bloody monsters thrive on. I founded the civil rights fighting organization the Military...
View ArticleOne year after Tahrir Square
Egyptians are sweeping up in Tahrir Square after celebrations marking the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 launch of their revolution. In a few days, on Feb. 11, they will mark another milestone, one...
View ArticleRevolution: The pursuit of public happiness
Mid-June 2012 marks the third anniversary of the Green Movement in Iran, and more than a year and a half into the dramatic unfolding of the Arab revolutions. Over the past three years, the Arab and...
View ArticleAssistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez Speaks at the Conference on the...
(Source: US Department of Justice) Thank you for that kind introduction and thank you all for welcoming me to beautiful Malaysia. It is a great honor to be with you, and to have the opportunity to...
View ArticleThe Third Intifada has already begun
No amount of global revulsion at US President Barack Obama's mendacious speech at the UN General Assembly in September 2011, unabashedly seeking to preempt the possibility of the Palestinian statehood...
View ArticleThe Politics of Islamophobia
Western peoples have long viewed the Muslim world through an “orientalist” filter –imagining a backward, exotic and vaguely sinister “other.” But, until recently, they were seldom preoccupied with...
View ArticleRabbis to meet in Berlin to protest circumcision ban
BERLIN (Reuters) - Jewish religious leaders will hold an international meeting in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss how to respond to a German court ruling against performing circumcision on baby boys,...
View ArticleCourt protects teacher who taught about N-word
In September, the Federal District Court for northern Illinois reversed a school board decision to fire a teacher because he taught his class about the N-word. The facts of this case are very...
View ArticleThe Invention of the White Race
Theodore W. Allen’s two-volume , republished by Verso Books in a New Expanded Edition, presents a full-scale challenge to what Allen refers to as “The Great White Assumption” – “the unquestioning,...
View ArticleThe next challenge for the Middle East protesters
In the early days of the Arab revolutions, it seemed as if a smartphone might be enough to break the power of repressive governments. These little devices could gather crowds, yes, but even more...
View ArticleDon't be fooled. Europe's far-right racists are not discerning
On Saturday, in the Danish city of Aarhus, a Europe-wide rally organised by the English Defence League will try to set up a European anti-Muslim movement. For Europe's far-right parties the rally,...
View ArticleBACKGROUND: Animal welfare or anti-Semitism? The assault on shechita and the...
(Source: World Jewish Congress) July 2013 At issue In recent months, debate regarding the banning of shechitaand halal[slaughter in accordance with Jewish and Islamic law, respectively] has been...
View ArticleInquisitr Interviews Pamela Geller On Political Islam, Israel and Obama
Posted: September 13, 2012 Two days ago, the United Sates Embassy in Cairo was attacked by an enraged mob that tore the American flag to shreds and raised an al-Qaeda flag in its place. Yesterday, the...
View ArticleTrading an African Dashiki for Union Blue
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Tags: Blacks, Civil War (US) (1861-65), Douglass, Frederick, Immigration and Emigration, Pittsburgh (Pa), Slavery “We most heartily endorse the earnest...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande's misguided move: taking 'race' out of the constitution
It's become something of a commonplace to speak of the US as having entered a post-racial age. Both the right and the left have heralded the end of race, either triumphantly or as a way of dismissing...
View ArticleThe U.S. Constitution – “Don’t Tread on Me”
Dennis Jamison Ask me a question. SAN JOSE, September 19, 2012— On the anniversary of 9/11 this year and since that day, Americans are again under attack from angry radical Islamic militants. The...
View ArticleWJC ANALYSIS: The assault on shechita and the future of Jews in Europe...
(Source: World Jewish Congress) July 2013 At issue In recent months, debate regarding the banning of shechitaand halal[slaughter in accordance with Jewish and Islamic law, respectively] has been...
View ArticleMuslims are not betraying Islam in embracing liberal democracy
Last week, during a book tour in London, I spoke to a large group of British Muslims on Islam and liberty. A few of the questions that I received from the audience indicated why discussion on this...
View ArticleDershowitz fights academic freedom at Brooklyn College
It comes as little surprise that Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, Brooklyn College alumnus and raving apologist for Israeli crimes, has appointed himself commanding general in the assault...
View ArticleJuly 3 and 4: Celebrating Inner and Outer Freedom
In India, the full moon day in the lunar calendar's month of Ashadh (typically July here) is celebrated as Guru Purnima. The word guru has been loosely applied to all kinds of experts, but...
View ArticleTEXAS FAITH: Religion and the right to free speech
The situation in the Mideast and North Africa has been fluid the last week, and no one knows how exactly events will turn out. But it is clear that a clash of values is sparking at least part of the...
View ArticleBirth, Language and Citizenship
The ‘birthing’ controversy is news again. Is the President really American? He doesn’t really look it! Or always act like he is: remember the Barrack-Michelle closed-fist salute? I moved to the US...
View ArticleSeminar on 1300 Years of Islam’s Presence in Spain held in Madrid
Madrid, Dec 8, IRNA – A day-long seminar, commemorating 13th century of Islam’s birth in Spain was held at Complutense University of Madrid, here Wednesday. According to the IRNA correspondent in...
View ArticleThe Y-word: Should Tottenham fans be allowed to use it?
The use of the word "Yid" in football chants by Tottenham fans has attracted comment from the FA, the police and even David Cameron, but should its use be stamped out? Most Spurs fans are not Jewish...
View ArticleA Merdeka of the mind
Our education is too Western-centric, aping Western universities and showing ignorance of Asian and African contributions to knowledge. AS we celebrate 55 years of political independence, we may note...
View ArticleDenigrating neutrality during second World War has become fashionable
There has been much recent comment in relation to Ireland’s controversial neutrality during the second World War that suggests a diminishing rather than a deepening of historical understanding. The...
View ArticleIran-Israel: Who’s Threatening Whom?
The rhetoric used in recent speeches by top Iranian officials has garnered much attention in the mainstream US media. In addition to the outrage expressed over the statement that the Israeli...
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