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  • January 25, 2014

    Simon Wiesenthal Centre's respect for dead Gentiles appears to be limited

    It is interesting to note that a recent robust defence of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s planned “Museum of Tolerance” in Jerusalem uses an attack on the credibility of Sheikh...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Solitary confinement and administrative detention

    Administrative detention provides a vehicle for the arrest of Palestinians where there is no genuine reason for them to be taken into custody, even under Israel’s draconian military occupation....

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  • January 25, 2014

    Maintaining Israel's demographic majority, but at what cost?

    In America, the Jewish community’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes racial integration, equality and multiculturalism within American society. The ADL and other Jewish organisations work closely at local levels with...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Libya and the ICC: in the pursuit of justice?

    The ongoing post-conflict reconstruction process in Libya is reigniting a crucial debate among transitional justice advocates about the role that the International Criminal Court (ICC) can play in delivering...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Egypt's new role in the future of Palestine

    Recently, millions of Egyptians crowded round TV sets in Cairo to watch two presidential candidates debate their country’s future. For citizens more used to having a political system imposed...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Lifting the Veil of Secrecy

    Judicial Review of Administrative Detentions in the Israeli Supreme Court, by Shiri Krebs Vanderbilt Journal of Transitional Law, Vol. 45, No. 3, May 2012 Shiri Krebs is currently a...

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  • January 25, 2014

    If I was Egyptian, I would vote for Al-Banna's successor

    Everyone is waiting anxiously for the outcome of the first round of the Egyptian presidential election. It might be a decisive vote in terms of such elections in Egypt;...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Is Egypt about to become another Algeria?

    Democracy, to paraphrase writer and comedian Alexei Sayle, allows you to march up and down the street and elect new dictators every few years. Here in the West, we...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Between money keeper and policy maker

    Once again Muhammad Rashid has returned to the forefront of the political scene, first through programmes on satellite television under the title “political memory”, and second through the Palestinian...

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  • January 25, 2014

    Nuclear irony is lost on the West

    It is ironic that Western nations seeking to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions are the same countries which sold nuclear technology to Tehran in the first place. Iran has worked...

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