Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Calls for Protection Rise After Attack in Moscow
After last week’s stabbing attack in a Moscow synagogue — the worst antisemitic attack the country has seen in years — the Russian Jewish community is calling on its government to step up efforts to protect Jewish institutions and prosecute hate crimes. A knife-wielding skinhead burst into Moscow’s Chabad-run Bronnaya synagogue January 11 shouting “I…
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News Venezuela’s Jews Defend Leftist President in Flap Over Remarks
The Venezuelan Jewish community leadership and several major American Jewish groups are accusing the Simon Wiesenthal Center of rushing to judgment by charging Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, with making antisemitic remarks. Officials of the leading organization of Venezuelan Jewry were preparing a letter this week to the center, complaining that it had misinterpreted Chavez’s…
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News Experts Debate ‘Ticking-bomb’ Torture
As debate over the use of torture spreads from Iraq to Europe to Washington, new questions are being raised about the validity of the claim that harsh interrogation techniques can be effective in extracting information on impending terrorist attacks. The subject, known to experts as the “ticking-bomb scenario,” surfaced in a high-level debate last month…
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News After Slow Start, U.N. Envoy Turns Feisty
To most American Jewish groups, John Bolton is the stand-up guy they had long hoped to see confronting anti-Israel bias in America’s name at the United Nations. To U.N. diplomats, the ambassador is living up to his reputation as a hard-nosed conservative whose contempt for the world body is becoming more visible by the day….
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News U.N. Official Slammed for Criticism of Israel
A key player in Swiss Holocaust restitution battles is being criticized by the American Jewish Committee, which, because of his virulent criticism of Israel and the United States, is urging the United Nations to oust him from his position as a special rapporteur on the right to food. Jean Ziegler, a left-leaning Swiss intellectual active…
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News E.U. Slams Israel, But Summit Finds Common Ground
Fresh on the heels of its first ever mandate to station monitors at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, the European Union is trying to reassert itself into the Israeli-Palestinian process. So far, the push is producing mixed results. First the E.U. came under fire from Israel last week over a leaked internal report…
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News Germany To Sell Israel Advanced Subs
As United States and European governments seek to turn up international pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, Germany has agreed to sell Israel two sophisticated submarines that could be equipped with nuclear devices. The sale, decided by outgoing chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, was endorsed by his conservative successor, Angela Merkel, who took office this week….
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News Europe Seen Cracking Down on Holocaust Revisionists
In a flurry of activity on both sides of the Atlantic, several so-called revisionists have been arrested on Holocaust denial charges in recent weeks. Three revisionists — Germar Rudolph, Ernst Zundel and Siegfried Verbeke — have been extradited to Germany. But the most visible case involves far-right British historian David Irving, who was arrested November…
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