An Open Letter to Google’s Sergey Brin By Dennis Pragerk (Jewish World Review)
Oct. 16, 2019 Dear Mr. Brin: Fifty years ago this week, when I was a 21-year-old college senior, I was in the Soviet Union, sent by the government of Israel to smuggle in Jewish religious items and smuggle out names of Jews who wanted to escape the Soviet Union and could then be issued a […]
Read More →Hamas Under Fire for Failed Policies – Yousef Alhelou (Arab Weekly via Daily Alert) & 2nd, related article
July 22, 2019 Hamas Under Fire for Failed Policies – Yousef Alhelou Palestinians in Gaza are increasingly expressing frustration with Hamas for failing to provide solutions to their problems. Palestinians are questioning why Hamas has stayed in power but is unable to provide a decent life for Gazans. Those who want to work in the governmental […]
Read More →Covering Up Our Culture to ‘Avoid Giving Offense’ by Giulio Meotti (Gatestone Inst.)
Jun. 16, 2019 Recently, some major conservative intellectuals have been sacked in the UK. One is the peerless philosopher Roger Scruton, who was fired from a governmental committee… Then it was the turn of the great Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, whose visiting fellowship at Cambridge University was rescinded… By refusing to confront the speech police, […]
Read More →Iran-Backed Militias Step Up the Battle in Iraq – Jonathan Spyer (WSJ via Daily Alert)
Mar. 19, 2019 Iran-Backed Militias Step Up the Battle in Iraq – Jonathan Spyer Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq are operating with increasing impunity. On Feb. 3, Shiite militiamen murdered Iraqi novelist Alaa Mashzoub, a chronicler of Iraq’s lost Jewish community, who was a bold critic of Iran’s increasing power in Iraq. A few days later, […]
Read More →WHAT IF? A Treatise on Canadian Democracy & It’s Current Challenges!, by Vivienne Grace Ziner (TOI)
Mar. 13, 2019 What if….???? What if a Jewish newspaper received demands from its subscribers to fire a contributing writer because the public felt that this writer’s values and ideals differed radically from many others in the mainstream Jewish community? What if the complainants felt that this writer’s viewpoint was antithetical to Jewish values, too […]
Read More →EU: Going Full Orwell by Judith Bergman (Gatestone Inst.)
Feb. 5, 2019 The problem is that this professedly noble initiative comes from an organization that has already for several years been censoring free speech in Europe. The handbook guidelines state that journalists should “Take care not to further stigmatize terms such as ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islam’ by associating them with particular acts… Don’t allow extremists’ […]
Read More →Pakistan Earned U.S. Designation as “Country of Particular Concern” by Kaswar Klasra (Gatestone Inst.)
Dec. 27, 2018 “Occupations deemed as ‘dirty’ and ‘shameful’ are reserved for Christians, and many believers are victims of bonded labor. Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws target religious minorities but affect Christians the most…”. — Open Doors. “Christians continue to be killed for accusations of blasphemy, as well as for their low status in society. In […]
Read More →Palestinians: Silencing and Intimidating Critics by Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Inst.)
Dec. 27, 2018 Palestinian columnist Sami Fuda denounced the Hamas crackdown on its critics in Gaza: “Apparently, freedom of expression is unacceptable to the de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip… The policy of intimidating and imprisoning writers will not deter them and is completely ineffective and unacceptable.” While these few Palestinians have expressed concern […]
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