February 22, 2012 A growing immigrant population determined to avoid assimilation. Leading Islamic groups in Switzerland are seeking to establish a single national representative body that will enable all of the country’s Muslims to “speak with one voice. Read More »

Rights groups to oppose bids by Pakistan and Venezuela for UN Human Rights Council GENEVA, Feb. 22 – The governments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are slated to run unopposed for seats on the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council this year, reported the independent monitoring group UN Watch, citing sources close to the UN. Read More »

February 21, 2012 WT title: “Peculiar proliferation of Palestine refugees: Status has been passed from one generation to the next”] Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestine refugees. Read More »

February 22, 2012 The first thing Hamas would do after winning the election is cancel all the “treacherous” agreements that were signed by Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO. There are several reasons why the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks need to be postponed until further notice. Read More »

February 21, 2012 The iron fist against “terrorist gangs” as promised by Bashar Assad got off to a fairly impressive start two weeks ago. Homs — the Benghazi of the Syrian rebels — has been subjected to massive and sustained shelling for days, causing hundreds of fatalities among the defenders. Read More »

1 February 2012 Direct Swiss Democracy, the European Debate on Islam, and the Diminishing Political Stature of Swiss Jewry[1] For some time now Switzerland has been at the forefront of the European debate on Islam, Islamism, and Islamization. Read More »

PA depicts a world without Israel The Palestinian Authority makes no attempt to educate its people towards peace and coexistence with Israel. Read More »

21 FEB.2012 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights announced that Palestinians — not Israel — were to blame for the electricity crisis. Read More »

Feb 20, 2012 As’ad AbuKhalil As we, and many others, noted last week, there’s a video circulating around the internet of infamous Israel-defamer and former DePaul professor Norman Finkelstein slamming the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it a “cult” whose goal is the elimination of Israel. Read More »

21 February, 2012 Jewish students have clashed with anti-Israel protesters during a fight at the London School of Economics. A scuffle broke out between Jewish and Israeli students and demonstrators who had erected a mock “Israeli apartheid wall” as part of an Israel Apartheid Week protest. Read More »

February 21, 2012 The explicit aim of the Istanbul Process — currently backed by the Obama administration — is to make it an international crime to criticize Islam. A Muslim fundamentalist group is organizing a conference focused on turning Austria and other European countries into Islamic states. Read More »

19 Feb 2012 There’s a serious split in Hamas reflecting the growing civil war among Islamists along Sunni-Shia lines. Each side is radical but the fact that they’re fighting among themselves weakens both of them. The issues involved are tactical, not strategic. Read More »

An Interview with Dr. Jonathan Spyer February 17, 2012 Barry Rubin: Dr. Spyer, please tell us about your visit to Syria, what you saw and your impressions. credit: RUBIN REPORTS more reading: Sharia’s Global Reach: A Liberal Muslim Extradicted to Possible Beheading / Philip Smyth Haniyeh VS. Read More »

February 18, 2012 Muhammad Najeeb Kashgari, better known as Hamza Kashgari, is a 23-year-old Saudi writer and the first victim of the global enforcement of radical Sharia by international legal authorities. Read More »

20 February 2012 Gaza-based Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh spread two conflicting messages during his recent tour of the Middle East. While in Bahrain, Haniyeh expressed support for the Sunni government in its struggle against the Shiite unrest. Read More »

Feb 16 2012 A political storm in Malaysia over controversial remarks by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s on Israel has not yet come to a close. Back in January, a war of words erupted between Anwar and several top government officials, including his former mentor Dr. Read More »

The area of anti-Israeli activity in academia is now covered from a variety of perspectives. Apart from those organizations with wider briefs that become involved with campus issues occasionally, there are now six organizations dedicated to monitoring, and in most cases campaigning against, such activity. Read More »

Feb.13 2012 In a Cairo speech attended by foreign ministers of the Arab League this past Sunday, Palestinian Authority (P.A. Read More »

02.16.12 Under Israel, Arabs enjoy life that many in neighboring countries can only dream of David Ha’ivri Anti-Israel propagandists claim that Israel is an apartheid state that discriminates against Palestinians on a racist basis. Read More »

February 17, 2012 As usual, it took the army an hour to drive two kilometers to the village. “This happens every time. They wait outside the village until the Muslims have had enough violence, then they appear.” credit: Stoneage Institute more reading: Chaos: The New ‘status quo’ in the Middle East / Aymenn J. Read More »