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November
2009
This is one among many realities that we wish would be too bad to be true. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the prominent right-wing spiritual leader in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has openly condoned Jews killing any non-Jews, including children and babies, who pose a threat to Israel. In his new book, the warmongering Rabbi asserts: “If a gentile endangers the existence of Israel, it is allowed to kill him. Also if he is completely not to blame for the situation that has been created.” He might have well said that a genocide of non-Jews (no doubt referring primarily to Arabs) along Holocaust lines is kosher too…
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October
2009
There is also an unacknowledged impetus bringing Chicago ahead of Rio rooted in the origins of the games themselves…
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September
2009
Non-violent demonstrations in Israel by once warmly welcomed Jewish Ethiopian immigrants were shut down by police while political leaders sought an 11th hour deal to allow black students into schools, reminding many of the anti-segregation struggles in the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s…
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August
2009
European leaders and participants commemorated a peaceful-picnic-turned-exciting-escape that changed the course of world history, with lessons that can still inform how nonviolent transformations can occur in any culture today…
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August
2009
The weaponization of language is also a form of demilitarization in the traditional sense. Waging war would be tantamount to battlefield diplomacy…
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August
2009
An innovative conference bringing together scholars and organizers of Islamic communities across Europe is now taking place in Caux, Switzerland, lead by an inter-faith peace group with a storied and successful past, making clear their concerns for peace and threats to it in the present and future…
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July
2009
Rather than Chinese government crackdown deaths, those in Urumqi today were mostly by rioters against their targets, with their respective and deep-seated identities as the ultimate causes. The roots of the Chinese riots defy the easy categorizations upon which most media outlets depend in crafting ‘breaking news’ stories and weaving them into a series meant to attract your mouse clicks. Here is the gist and background of the situation as it is still unfolding…
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