Month: December 2010

Deputy Knesset chairman MK Ahmed Tibi calls for the government funded rabbis who declared “Racism Originated In The Torah” to “be given intensive course in Jewish history” and even Netanyahu protests their statements: Netanyahu Slams Top Rabbis’ Call to Forbid Renting Homes to Arabs (Haaretz) Allegations that the accused “became increasingly radicalised” as he “continued…

Five years ago, a jury refused to convict Sami al-Arian on ANY of the almost one hundred charges brought against him; a juror now steps forward to give the eye-opening story of the deliberations that foiled the unjust prosecution: The Al-Arian Trial –Part I (Youtube / National Liberty Fund) The Al-Arian Trial –Part II (Youtube…

Muslims get a restraining order against an FBI informant who admits to entrapment and FBI case collapses: Mosque Infiltration Feeds Muslims’ Distrust Of FBI (Washington Post) Netanyahu thanks Turkey for “sending firefighting planes to help battle forest fires in northern Israel that killed 41 people” but Israel is not so  grateful as to apologize for…

Because making  “terrorists seem ‘ten feet tall’” supports “their narrative that they’re world-historical forces on par with the U.S. — it might be time to publicly de-emphasize terrorism in the public discourse”: Let’s Stop Panicking over Half-Assed Terrorists Already (Wired) A proposal by activist Asra Nomani to profile Muslims at the airport, and a refutation…

Video disproves allegations that the captive was killed by his captors: British Aid Worker Norgrove Killed Accidentally by U.S. soldier, Inquiry Finds (Washington Post) “Whichever way one looks at it, the cable raises huge issues about the probity or competence of the secretary of state – and the matter will not go away”: Deflecting Blame:…

There is no proof, but for Iranians there is also no doubt whose hands are behind the assassination-by-bombing attempt to disrupt their nuclear program as well as cyber-attacks with the same objective: Bombings Hit Atomic Experts In Iran Streets (New York Times) After an attempted Christmas tree lighting car-bombing, the Corvallis community showed their support…