Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Antisemitism: Up, Down or Both?
The headlines seemed to say it all. “Global Anti-Semitism on the Rise,” one reads, while another proclaims: “Antisemitism Down in the United States.” Over the past month, two separate, major antisemitism studies have been released. One from the State Department described an “upsurge” of hostility and discrimination toward Jewish people across the world. That came…
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News Months After World Jewish Congress Breakup, Legal Battles Drag On
For a few months, the former head of the World Jewish Congress, Israel Singer, quietly served as an adviser to the American Jewish Congress. But when one of Singer’s old enemies found out about it, he made sure the work would not last. Stephen Herbits, a former WJC secretary general who fiercely defended Singer for…
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News Arab Boycott Follows Writers to Paris
Count on Middle Eastern politics to turn what is billed as a French fair into a political slugfest. The Paris book fair, one of the major events on the European literary calendar, opened March 14, with Israel as the “guest of honor.” The focus led a number of Arab states to boycott the festival. “Iran…
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News Costa Rica Opens Official Ties With ‘State of Palestine’
Seizing upon the Bush administration’s recent push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, the Palestinian Authority has been working to expand the number of countries that recognize Palestine as a country. The effort received a major boost when Costa Rica, one of the first countries to recognize Israel and, until recently, one of the very few…
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News U.S. Takes Aim at Shadowy Syrian Businessman
In a new approach to battling Syria, the Bush administration has imposed sanctions on a powerful businessman — and cousin of the country’s president — who is suspected of corruption. The U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of Rami Makhlouf, a controversial figure with major interests in Syria’s economy. The move comes on the heels…
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News Facing Firestorm, Sarkozy Alters Proposal To Match French Students With Children Murdered in Shoah
Paris — Faced with a storm of opposition from politicians, teachers and France’s most famous Holocaust survivor, President Nicolas Sarkozy backtracked this week from his proposal to have each child graduating primary school entrusted with the memory of one of the 11,000 French children murdered in the Holocaust. France’s education minister, Xavier Darcos, announced Monday…
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News McCain Touts Stance on Israel
John Mc Cain prides himself on being a straight shooter, a political maverick who speaks his mind even when it riles his own camp or alarms voters. He supported President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq even though pundits called it political suicide. He once told a questioner that it “would be fine with me” if…
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News Fearing Repeat Of Durban, U.S. May Abandon Racism Summit
In what could be a major blow to the United Nations, the United States is pulling back its involvement in an upcoming U.N. anti-racism conference due to concern that it would stir up the same anti-Israel sentiments that marked the first such conference, the Forward has learned. “We are not participating, because we are concerned…
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