Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News L.A. Muslim Leader in Fray Over Award
WASHINGTON — A Muslim activist in Los Angeles is fighting efforts by Jewish organizations to block him from receiving a prestigious human rights award. The Human Relations Commission of Los Angeles County is planning, on October 5, to grant the John Allen Buggs Award for outstanding human relations work to Dr. Maher Hathout, a champion…
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News L.A. Muslim Leader Fights Effort To Block His Award
WASHINGTON — A Muslim activist in Los Angeles is fighting efforts by Jewish organizations to block him from receiving a prestigious human rights award. The Human Relations Commission of Los Angeles County is planning, on October 5, to grant the John Allen Buggs Award for outstanding human relations work to Dr. Maher Hathout, a champion…
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News Groups Fight Bills Aimed at Wooing Evangelicals
WASHINGTON — As congressional Republicans press a series of legislative initiatives aimed at mobilizing religious conservative voters, Jewish organizations are fighting two of the measures that they say would further erode the wall separating church and state. The first measure being opposed by Jewish organizations would ease the limitations on sectarian prayers by military chaplains….
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Israel News Senators Seek Curb on Cluster Bombs
WASHINGTON — Reflecting growing discontent in Washington with Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in heavily populated areas of Lebanon, two leading Democratic senators this week introduced legislation that would require recipients of such munitions not to use them in or near civilian centers. Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Patrick Leahy of Vermont this…
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News Pressure Could Force Hamas Into Deal
WASHINGTON — With the Palestinian government on the verge of a complete breakdown, pressure is mounting on the ruling Hamas movement to form a unity government with its Fatah rivals, who support a two-state solution. In the past, the Bush administration has advised Fatah’s leader, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, against a formal partnership with…
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News Report: Iran Teaching War
WASHINGTON — A comprehensive study of Iranian textbooks shows that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory anti-Western, anti-American and antisemitic rhetoric is well rooted in his country’s educational system. The study, an analysis of 115 Iranian school textbooks and teacher’s guides published in recent years, concludes that Iran has devised “an educational system that prepares school children…
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News Groups Push For Sanctions, Fear U.S. Will Falter on Iran
WASHINGTON — Jewish organization are seeking to mobilize the international community, through direct meetings with foreign diplomats and by lobbying the Bush administration, to impose sanctions on Iran for defiantly carrying on with its nuclear program. With the arrival of the August 31 deadline for Iran to stop its enrichment of uranium, pro-Israel groups are…
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Israel News Scholars Use Arab Forum To Slam ‘Lobby’
WASHINGTON — Two American scholars who earlier this year authored a paper charging that the “Israel Lobby” had seized control of America’s Middle East policy have reopened their attacks, this time claiming that Jerusalem’s allies pressured the Bush admini stration into supporting Israel during its recent war in Lebanon against Hezbollah. At an August 28…
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